Her research interests include cardiovascular biomechanics, multi-scale modeling of biological tissues, fluid-structure interactions, medical devices, clinical imaging, and patient-specific modeling. For her work on Diffusion Tensor Imaging, she earned recognitions in several competitions, most notably the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference PhD Level Best Paper Award in 2009 and the IMechE Republic of Ireland Young Engineers Research Paper in 2012. For her current research, she received the BME Innovation and Career Development Award at the 2014 BMES Annual Meeting. Dr. Flamini received her BSc and MSc degrees in Medical Engineering from the Università di Roma “Tor Vergata,” Rome, Italy, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland in 2011.