My research sits at the crossroads of mechanics, biology, and computation specifically, how the carotid artery responds to the forces it faces every single heartbeat. My background is deliberately interdisciplinary: bioelectrics → biomaterials → biomechanics. Before my PhD, I worked as a neurofeedback therapist and in biomedical engineering with cardiac ultrasound systems always drawn to the same question: how does the heart communicate with the brain, and what happens when that signal breaks down? The carotid artery, sitting right at that interface, turned out to be the natural next step. Now my PhD focuses on its biomechanical behavior, with a particular interest in the neural side of the carotid where mechanics and neurovascular signaling meet.