Distinguished Professor Peter Hunter
Distinguished Professor Peter Hunter is Director of the Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland and Director of Computational Physiology at Oxford University. He received the 2009 Rutherford Medal of the Royal Society of New Zealand and was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2010.
As co-Chair of the Physiome and Bioengineering Committee of the International Union of Physiological Sciences he is helping to lead the Physiome Project which is using computational methods for understanding the integrated physiological function of the body in terms of the structure and function of tissues, cells and proteins. His major research interests are in developing anatomically and biophysically based approaches to modelling the interrelated electrical, mechanical and biochemical functions of the heart and other organs.