Dr Jonathan Mynard is the Leader of the Cardiovascular Bioengineering Team within the Heart Research group at MCRI. He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Mynard holds undergraduate degrees in Medical Biophysics & Intrumentation and Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Swinburne University), a Master's degree in Computer Modelling (Swansea University, Wales) and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. He completed postdoctoral research at the Biomedical Simulation Laboratory (University of Toronto, Canada). Dr Mynard is on the editorial board of Heart, Lung and Circulation and receives funding from HeartKids Australia and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. With a background in bioengineering, his research focuses on developing and applying state-of-the-art analytical and imaging techniques to better understand and treat cardiovascular problems in infants, children and young adults. Specific areas of interests include cardiovascular modelling, fetal and neonatal cardiovascular dynamics, coronary haemodynamics, models of arterial haemodynamics, congenital heart disease, new technology for measuring blood pressure (in particular, central blood pressure) and assessment of cardiovascular risk in children and young adults.​

Paediatrics and cardiology