Dr. Reza Avazmohammadi, researcher at WCCMS, has recently been appointed as Research Scientist. Reza received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvannia in 2014, after which he joined WCCMS as a postdoctoral fellow in the same year. Since then, he has received numerous awards and grants, such as the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for his work titled Adaptive remodeling of the right ventricle in response to pulmonary hypertension: toward physical understanding and modeling in 2016. In July 2017, Reza was awarded a travel grant to attend the 14th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, held in Montreal, Canada. In 2018, he was Awarded a 2018 AHA Career Development Award titled The effect of systemic hypertension on prog- nosis of myocardial infarction:Understanding, prediction & therapy evaluation as well as a K99/R00 grant titled The effect of systemic hypertension on prognosis of myocardial infarction: Understanding, prediction and therapy evaluation.