The PELVITRACK Scientific and Innovation Advisory Board (SIAB) comprises of esteemed scientists and distinguished industrial/corporate experts. The SIAB has been established to provide feedback and expert advice on all aspects of the project.

SIAB Members

  • Winthrop Professor of Applied Mechanics at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

    Karol Miller is a Winthrop Professor of Applied Mechanics at The University of Western Australia. Until 2023 he had been a Visiting Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

    Karol was born and educated in Warsaw, Poland. He has MSc in aerospace engineering, PhD in robotics and DSc in biomechanics.

    In 2002 Karol established the Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory. ISML’s mission is to work towards improving clinical outcomes through development and appropriate use of technology. It runs exciting research projects funded by the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), the National Institute of Health (USA) and other national and international agencies. The overall objective of his research is to help creating methods and tools which will enable a new exciting era of personalised medicine. He is best known for his work on biomechanics of the brain. He is one of the world’s most cited researcher in this area.

    Karol’s research and teaching have been recognised by multiple awards, including the Humboldt Research Award, NVIDIA GPU Computing Champion Award, the Simulation Industry Association Australia Award, the Sir Charles Julius Medal, the Polish Prime Minister Award, the UWA Faculty of Engineering Computing and Mathematics Teaching Award and the UWA Student Guild Choice Award.

    Karol has been a member of National Health and Medical Research Council panel for medical technology, Australian Research Council College of Experts and Australian Research Council Medical Research Advisory Panel. He also serves as a panel member/reviewer for ERC and many European, American and Asian funding agencies. Karol has served on editorial boards of many journals. He was the Associate Editor of International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering and Annals of Biomedical Engineering.

  • Professor of mechanical engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in the City of New York. 

     Kristin runs a soft tissue biomechanics laboratory on the campus of Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Kristin’s work focuses on the biomechanics of pregnancy and the female reproductive system. Hers is one of only a few engineering teams in the world creating computational digital twins of pregnancy to uncover structural mechanisms of preterm birth and to design functional biomedical devices in pregnancy. To understand preterm birth biological pathways, her work has also revealed how the cervix remodels itself from a mechanical barrier to protect the fetus to a compliant passageway to allow for safe delivery. She received her mechanical engineering doctorate and master’s degree from MIT and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. In 2017, she won the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Y.C. Fung Young Investigators Award; in 2019, she won the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) from the White House for my pregnancy biomechanics work; and in 2025, she was inducted into the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows.