Isogeometric Analysis of Cardiac Electrophysiology: Application to the Human Atria

Acknowledgements I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Alfio Quarteroni, who gave me the possibility to work within the Chair of Modeling and Scientific Computing (CMCS) to my Master Project, and to Luca Dedè, who was very supportive during these months and always available to provide valuable advice and ideas. My thanks go to everyone in the CMCS group, in particular to Andrea and Filippo, with whom I shared the office and most of the moments of my last semester as a student. I would like to thank my friends in Lausanne, especially Edoardo, Francesco, Giacomo, Nicolo' and Philippe, who helped me during the past two years to make me feel at home even when home was 360 km away, and my friends in Italy, Mauro and Veronica, who make me feel as I had never left. I would like to thank my family – my parents, my brother and my sister – who have always supported my choices. I dedicate to them this work. Lastly, I would like to thank Virginia, for always being caring and encouraging.