Dr Himanshu Kaul is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at the University of Leicester with cross-appointments at the School of Engineering and Department of Respiratory Sciences. He is a Biomedical Engineer with >15 years’ expertise in combining computational, clinical, and experimental approaches/data to gain systems-level understanding of biological phenomena and patient-specific mechanisms. His research contributions include amending the dynamic reciprocity principle to emphasize flow and transport as pillars of equal importance to the extracellular matrix in influencing cell fate, a virtual asthma patient that for the first time captured multiple asthma phenotypes, and successfully coupling gene regulatory network topology with tissue-level patterns to capture patterning observed during early human development. His virtual patient has been recognised as a ‘Success Story’ by the Virtual Physiologic Human Institute and one of the ‘Top 5 innovations’ pioneered in Leicester. Kaul is the Founding CEO of LeicSurvey®: a software-as-a-service enterprise supporting the third sector in conducting inclusive feedback gathering and helping stakeholders evaluate the impact and social return on investment of their activities.