Simula Research Laboratory
Nickolas Forsch is a Research Engineer at Simula Research Laboratory since September 2020 and co-founder and Advisory Board Member at HealthLink at UC San Diego since June 2016. Previously, Forsch was a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California, San Diego from August 2014 to July 2020, focusing on cardiac remodeling and mechanics in adults with congenital heart defects, utilizing statistical and mechanistic computational modeling. In earlier roles, Forsch served as Project Manager at Sling Health, where an anxiety management tool was developed, and as a uSTAR Research Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, studying mechanical forces in chicken embryo brain development. Additional experience includes a Visiting Undergraduate Researcher position at Stanford University and an internship at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Forsch holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering with a specialization in Multi-Scale Biology from UC San Diego and a Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.
Simula Research Laboratory
Simula Research Laboratory's main objective is to create knowledge about fundamental scientific challenges that are of genuine value for society. Important research with long-term impact in the fields of networks and distributed systems, scientific computing and software engineering constitutes the basis of Simula. The strong focus on basic research is combined with both teaching of postgraduate students and development of commercial applications.