Alejandro Roldán Alzate

Alejandro Roldán-Alzate is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Radiology and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Professor Roldán-Alzate is also the director of the Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which has the main interest of coupling engineering tools with medical imaging to non-invasively characterize the hemodynamics in different physiological and pathological conditions. More recently Dr. Roldán-Alzate has worked on developing non-invasive ways of assessing the biomechanics of the lower urinary tract using MRI in combination with computational fluid dynamics. He uses advanced optical imaging and computational fluid dynamics for enhancement and validation of quantitative flow imaging including 4D Flow MRI. Critical validation of Flow MRI metrics as well as enhancing their quantitative power is crucial for the future of clinical Flow MRI. Finally, Dr. Roldán-Alzate is the past chair of the fluid dynamics technical committee in the bio