Grants

2025

SASQUATCH: Searching for Arrhythmia Solutions by Quantifying and Unraveling Atrial Transient Chaos (link)
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA PF) grant, Horizon Europe (102.000 EUR)

Resulted in:

Topic editor Frontiers: Controlling Cardiac Complexity
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Research Stay
Publications still coming

2024

Personalized cardiac fortune telling through virtual time travel (link)
- Open Mind grant, Dutch Research Council NWO TTW (50.000 EUR)

Resulted in:

Desmond Kabus (postdoc) employed
TEKNOWLOGY demo
Kabus D., Dierckx H. & De Coster T. "Pigreads: The Python-integrated GPU-enabled reaction-diffusion solver using OpenCL for cardiac electrophysiology and other applications." Computer Physics Communications (2026)
Kamphuis J., Kabus D., Hupkes H.J., & De Coster, T. "Microscopic Variability Alters Macroscopic Rotation Speed in Stochastic Spiral Waves." arXiv preprint

2023

Cardiac Chaos Control study group (link)
- KIEM grant, Leiden University Fund (10.000 EUR)

Resulted in:

Bachelor thesis, master thesis
Publications still coming

2022

Empowering the heart to terminate its own rhythm disorders (link, and link) -> FINISHED
- Off Road grant, Dutch Research Council ZonMW (100.000 EUR)

Resulted in:

Mini-symposium organisation
Two Popular Science articles for Dutch students: here, and here
De Coster T. "(Cardiac) Complexity needs Interaction." Scientific Reports (2025)
Teplenin A.S., ..., De Coster T. "Atypical collective oscillatory activity in cardiac tissue uncovered by optogenetics." eLife (2026)
This project formed the basis for a KIEM grant

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