A.M.F. Carlier

Biography

Aurélie Carlier is professor of AI and Mechanistic Modeling in Biology at MaCSBio, Maastricht University. She received her PhD degree (2014) in Biomedical Engineering at the KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research interests encompass the computational modelling of biological processes, with a particular focus on bone tissue engineering, cell-biomaterial interactions and kidney pathophysiology, using a range of data-driven to mechanistic modelling approaches. Her research achievements have been awarded with a number of distinctions, including three doctoral thesis awards (ESMTB, 2015; ESB, 2015; KUL, 2016). She was also New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2021 finalist. She received a prestigious VENI (2016) and VIDI (2025) career development grant from the Dutch Science Foundation, Dutch Kidney Foundation Success Accelerator grant (2021) and an ERC STG (2024) to develop new methodologies for automated model construction. Besides her research, Aurélie is co-founder of FEM (Female Empowerment Maastricht University), a network to discuss and tackle gender issues.

Research Statement

Aurélie Carlier’s research vision is to enable digital twins to reach their full potential, predicting and optimizing patient-specific treatments of disabling disorders. More specifically, her research focuses on the development and experimental validation of computational models of key biological processes in the context of tissue regeneration, cell-biomaterial interactions and (kidney) pathophysiology. For the implementation of the computational models, we apply a range of modeling techniques including hypothesis-based mechanistic models and data-driven models.