University of Groningen
Hemodynamic analysis based on biofluid models and MRI velocity measurements
Nolte, David
DOI:
10.33612/diss.95571036
IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below.
Document Version
Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record
Publication date: 2019
Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database
Citation for published version (APA):
Nolte, D. (2019). Hemodynamic analysis based on biofluid models and MRI velocity measurements. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.95571036
Copyright
Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons).
Take-down policy
If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.
Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum.
Acknowledgements
First and foremost, I would like to thank Cristóbal Bertoglio, who was my daily su-pervisor during the last four years. Daily can be taken literally: always available for discussions, always keen to help, a good idea or an encouraging word when one was needed. He went out of his way to support me in every possible way. I feel thankful for having walked this path together and for everything I learned on the way. Having been able to contribute to the beginnings of his research group was a privilege.
I am grateful to my supervisors, Axel Osses at the University of Chile and Roel Verstappen at the University of Groningen, for their help, for making everything possible, and for supporting our double degree program. Thanks to the members of the assessment committee, Miguel Fernández, Volker John, Patrick Onck and Álvaro Valencia for their thorough reading of my thesis. Furthermore, I am grateful to Volker John for inviting me to his group at WIAS Berlin and for the good and fruitful time I had there.
Without Carlos Conca at the University of Chile I would probably not have at-tempted a PhD in Chile. It was to him whom I owe my place in his fine institution and financing for my work. Thanks for all the support throughout the years and the faith he put in me.
Thanks to the Chilean institution CONICYT for the excellent financial support through their PhD fellowship.
This thesis would not have been possible without the support of the staff at both universities, in particular those who made possible the double degree agreement. Thanks to Lorena Fuentes, Richard Weber, Christian Ihle, Paula Castillo at the Uni-versity of Chile and Elina Sietsema, Ika Neven, Annette Korringa at the UniUni-versity of Groningen.
My fellow PhD students and colleagues, especially Richard in Santiago and Sven, Erik, Ronald, Jeremias, Jigar, Larissa, Paolo and Fred in Groningen made this time so much more enjoyable. Thank you for your company, discussions on philosophy, politics, music or literature, for the countless hours spent drinking coffee together.
I feel immensely grateful to my great friends in Santiago, Berlin and Groningen, for making life as beautiful as it is, for being my equilibrium, for all the fun and the sincereness and the adventures.
Finally, thanks to my parents, Ulrike and Rainer, and to my sister, Saskia. With 95
96 APPENDIX A. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
their unconditional support and love, patience and wisdom, they provide the foun-dation that my life—and this work—is built upon.
