Lucas Timmins

Lucas Timmins is an American biomedical engineer. He is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah, active in the fields of biomechanics and interventional cardiology.
Early life and education.
Timmins was born December 8, 1982 and grew up in Port Neches, Texas, a small refining town on coast of Texas near the Louisiana border. His father worked in refining, and his mother was a grade school teacher. He has one older sister. He attended Port Neches-Groves high school. He is married.
Timmins received a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2005, He received the Whitaker International Fellowship in 2007, where he traveled to London and attended Queen Mary University of London. His Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering was also received from Texas A&M University in 2010. His postdoctoral work was in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine from February 2010 - July 2015. As a postdoc he taught Problems in Biomedical Engineering and Biotransport at Georgia Tech.
Career and research.
Timmins worked at the Emory University school of medicine in the department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences as an Instructor August 2015- July 2016. He then moved to the University of Utah in August 2016 to be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and an Affiliate Faculty Member in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. He teaches Biomechanics Research and Biomechanics I at the University of Utah.
The scientific fields he is most actively involved in are biomechanics and interventional cardiology. His research has included work in determining how coronary hemodynamics drive the progression of coronary atherosclerosis1 and also understanding the mechanics dealing with failure of vascular stents.
Timmins was the primary author on a paper that looked at stented artery biomechanics to optimize device design2. This research aimed to validate an algorithm to optimizing stent design to minimize or maximize various blood vessel mechanical properties.
Timmins was a part of a team of researchers that investigated the correlation of plaque area, plaque composition, and vessel remodeling as a function of wall shear stress.
Timmins was a supporting author on a study exploring how device design effects the mechanics of the artery wall. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects that different stent parameters have on the stresses in the artery wall after implantation and the resulting radial displacement that is achieved by the stent in the interest of preventing failures, such as restenosis or formation of a new blockage.