Dr Mathias Baumert

Qualifications

• 2000 Academically Qualified Engineer, University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany
• 2005 PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany

Awards & Achievements

• 2002 PhD scholarship (University of Applied Sciences Jena)
• 2003 Travel Scholarship (University of Applied Sciences Jena)
• 2005 PhD (Technical University Ilmenau)
• 2006 paper #15 chosen by the editors as Journal Highlight in 2006
• 2006 Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (Australian Research Council)
• 2006 Finalist of the Young Investigator Competition at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Seoul, Korea
• 2007 Respironics Travel Award
• 2008 Health Faculty Early Career Researcher Fellowship (University of Adelaide)
• 2010 Mutual Community & Health Faculty Postdoctoral Travel Award (Universiy of Adelaide)
• 2010 Australian Research Fellowship (Australian Research Council)
• 2010 National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Award (offer)
  

Teaching Interests

Digital signal processing.

Research Funding

• 2006-2008 Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP0663345); 240,000 AUD; CI: Baumert: Towards early detection of upper airway obstruction in children: investigation of autonomic control.
• 2006 University of Adelaide; FECMS grant improvement scheme; 18,000 AUD; CI: Baumert
• 2007 Women's and Children's Hospital NHMRC Equipment Grant; 42,000 AUD; CI: Kennedy, Martin, Pamula, Parsons,van den Heuvel, Lushington, Abbott, Baumert
• 2007 University of Adelaide NHMRC Equipment Grant; 42,000 AUD; CI: Kennedy, van den Heuvel, Couper, Martin, Abbott, Baumert, Lushington

• 2007-2009 National Health & Medical Research Council project (453637); 503,000 AUD; CIs: Kennedy, Couper, Van den Heuvel, Martin, Baumert: Does adenotonsillectomy change vascular function in children with sleep disordered breathing?

• 2011-2015 Australian Research Council Discovery Project (110102049); 577,000 AUD; CIs: Baumert, May: Novel computational tools for sympathetic nervous system assessment.

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Papers

[1] Leder U, Pohl HP, Baier V, Baumert M, Liehr M, Haueisen J, Voss A, Figulla HR Alternans of Heart Rate and Blood Pressure in Dilated Cardiomyopathy. PACE 2002 25: 1307-1314.

[2] Baumert M, Walther T, Hopfe J, Stepan H, Faber R, Voss A. Joint symbolic dynamic analysis of heart rate and blood pressure interactions in normal pregnancy. Med Biol Eng Comput. 2002; 40: 241-245.

[3] Leder U, Baumert M, Liehr M, Schirdewan A, Figulla H R, Voss A. Veränderte Interaktion von Blutdruck und Herzfrequenz bei idiopathischer dilatativer Kardiomyopathie. Biomed Tech. 2002; 47: 151-154

[4] Leder U, Baumert M, Baier V, Liehr M, Osterziel K J, Figulla H R, Voss A. Dynamische Interaktion von Nachlast und systolischem Blutdruck bei dilatativer Kardiomyopathie. Biomed Tech. 2002; 47: 191-194

[5] Baumert M, Baier V, Haueisen J, Wessel N, Meyerfeldt U, Schirdewan A, Voss A. Forecasting of life threatening arrhythmias using the compression entropy of heart rate. Methods Inf Med. 2004; 43: 202-206.

[6] Faber R, Stepan H, Baumert M, Voss A, Walther T. Analysis of blood pressure waveform - a new method for the classification of hypertensive pregnancy disorders, J Hum Hypertens. 2004; 18: 135-137.

[7] Faber R, Stepan H, Baumert M, Voss A, Walther T. Changes of blood pressure and heart rate variability precede a grand mal seizure in a pregnant woman. J Perinat Med. 2004; 32:538-540.

[8] Faber R, Baumert M, Stepan H, Wessel N, Voss A, Walther T. Baroreflex sensitivity, heart rate and blood pressure variability in hypertensive pregnancy disorders. J Hum Hypertens. 2004; 18:707-712.

[9] Walther T, Wessel N, Baumert M, Stepan H, Voss A, Faber R. Longitudinal Analysis of Heart Rate Variability in Chronic Hypertensive Pregnancy. Hypertens Res. 2005; 28:113-118.

[10] Baumert M, Baier V, Schirdewan A, Truebner S, Voss A. Short- and long-term joint symbolic dynamics of heart rate and blood pressure in dilated cardiomyopathy. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2005; 52:2112-2115.

[11] Baumert M, Baier V, Haueisen J, Voss A. Estimating the complexity of heart rate fluctuations - an approach based on compression entropy. Fluct Noise Lett. 2005; 5:L557-L563.

[12] Baumert M, Baier V, Voss A. Long-term correlations and fractal dimension of beat-to-beat blood pressure dynamics. Fluct Noise Lett. 2005; 5:L549-L555.

[13] Baier V, Baumert M, Caminal P, Vallverdú M, Faber R, Voss A. Hidden Markov models based on symbolic dynamics for statistical modeling of cardiovascular control in hypertensive pregnancy disorders. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2006; 53:1:140-143.

[14] Voss A, Baumert M, Baier V, Stepan H, Walther T, Faber R. Autonomic cardiovascular control in pregnancies with abnormal uterine perfusion. Am J Hypertens. 2006; 19:306-312.

[15] Baumert M, Brechtel LM, Lock, Voss A, Abbott D. Scaling graphs of heart rate time series in athletes demonstrating the VLF, LF and HF regions. Physiol Meas. 2006; 27 N35-N39

[16] Baumert M, Brechtel L, Lock J, Hermsdorf M, Wolff R, Baier V, Voss A. Heart rate variability, blood pressure variability, and baroreflex sensitivity in overtrained athletes. Clin. J. Sport Med. 2006; 16(5):412-417.

[17] Truebner S, Cygankiewicz I, Schroeder R, Baumert M, Vallverdu M, Caminal P, Bayes de Luna A, Voss A. Compression entropy contributes to risk stratification in patients with cardiomyopathy. Biomed. Tech. 2006; 51(2):77-82.

[18] Baumert M, Brechtel L, Lock J, Voss A. Changes in heart rate variability of athletes during a training camp. Biomed. Tech. 2006; 51(4):201-4.

[19] Voss A, Schroeder R, Truebner S, Baumert M, Goernig M, Hagenow A, Figulla HR. Multivariate and multidimensional analysis of cardiovascular oscillations in patients with heart failure. Biomed. Tech. 2006; 51(4):163-6.

[20] Baumert M, Wessel N, Schirdewan A, Voss A, Abbott D. Scaling characteristics of heart rate time series before the onset of ventricular tachycardia. Ann. Biomed. Eng. 2007; 35(2):201-7.

[21] Ngampramuan S, Baumert M, Beig MI, Kotchabhakdi H, Nalivaiko E. Activation of 5-HT1A receptors attenuates tachycardia induced by restraint stress in rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2008; 294: R132-R141.

[22] Javorka M, Trunkvalterova Z, Tonhajzerova I, Javorkova J, Javorka K, Baumert M. Short-term heart rate complexity is reduced in patients with diabetes mellitus. Clin Neurophysiol. 2008; 119:1071-81.

[23] Trunkvalterova Z, Javorka M, Tonhajzerova I, Javorkova J,  Lazarova Z, Javorka K,  Baumert M. Reduced short-term complexity of heart rate and blood pressure dynamics in patients with  diabetes mellitus type 1: multiscale entropy analysis. Physiol Meas. 2008; 29: 817-828.

[24] Baumert M, Smith J, Catcheside P, McEvoy DR, Abbott D, Sanders P, Nalivaiko, E. QT interval duration variability: an indicator of disease severity. Sleep 2008; 31: 959-966.

[25] Baumert M, Lambert GW, Dawood T, Lambert EA, Esler MD, McGrance M, Barton D, Nalivaiko E. QT interval variability and cardiac norepinephrine spillover in patients with depression and panic disorder. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2008; 295: H962-8.

[26] Voss A, Schulz S, Schroeder R, Baumert M, Caminal P. Methods derived from nonlinear dynamics for analyzing heart rate variability. Philos Transact A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2009; 367:277-96.

[27] Smith JH, Baumert M, Nalivaiko E, McEvoy RD, Catcheside PG. Arousal in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Patients is associated with ECG RR and QT interval shortening and PR interval lengthening. J Sleep Res. 2009; 18: 188-195.

[28] Javorka M, Turianikova Z, Javorka K, Baumert M. The effect of orthostasis on recurrence quantification analysis of heart rate and blood pressure dynamics. Physiol Meas. 2009; 30: 29-41.

[29] Beig MI, Baumert M, Walker FR, Day TA, Nalivaiko E. Blockade of 5-HT2A receptors suppresses hyperthermic but not cardiovascular responses to psychosocial stress in rats. Neuroscience. 2009; 159:1185-91.

[30] Lazarova Z, Tonhajzerova I, Trunkvaltarova Z, Brozmanova A, Honzikova N, Javorka K, Baumert M, Javorka M. Baroreflex sensitivity is reduced in obese normotensive children and adolescents. Can J Physiol Pharmacol. 2009; 87: 565-571.

[31] Baumert M, Lambert G, Dawood T, Lambert E, Esler M, McGrane M, Barton D, Sanders P, Nalivaiko E. Short-term heart rate variability and cardiac norepinephrine spillover in patients with depression and panic disorder. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2009; 297:H674-9.

[32] Baumert M, Kohler M, Kabir M, Kennedy D, Pamula Y. Cardiorespiratory response to spontaneous cortical arousals during stage 2 and REM sleep in healthy children. J Sleep Res. 2010; 19:415-424.

[33] Baumert M, Seeck A, Faber R, Nalivaiko E, Voss A. Longitudinal changes in QT variability and rate adaptation in preganacies with normal and abnormal uterine perfusion. Hypertens Res. 2010; 33:555-60.

[34] Kabir MM, Beig MI, Baumert M, Trombini M, Mastorci F, Sgoifo A, Walker FR, Day TA, Nalivaiko E. Respiratory pattern in awake rats: Effects of motor activity and of alerting stimuli. Physiol Behav. 2010; 101:22-31.

[35] Kabir MM, Dimitri H, Sanders P, Antic R, Nalivaiko E, Abbott D, Baumert M. Cardiorespiratory phase-coupling is reduced in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. PLoS ONE. 2010; 13;5:e10602.

[36] Baumert M,Lambert E, Vaddadi G, Sari CI, Esler M, Lambert G, Sanders P, Nalivaiko E. Cardiac repolarisation variability in patients with postural tachycardia syndrome during graded head-up tilt. Clin Neurophysiol. 2011; 122:405-409.

[37] Baumert M, Kohler M, Kabir M, Sanders P, Kennedy D, Martin J, Pamula Y. Altered cardio-respiratory response to spontaneous cortical arousals in children with upper airway obstruction. Sleep Med. 2011; 12:230-238.

[38] Javorka M, Lazarova Z, Tonhajzerova I, Turianikova Z, Honzikova N, Fiser B, Javorka K, Baumert M. Baroreflex analysis in diabetes mellitus: linear and nonlinear approaches. Med Biol Eng Comput. 2011; 49:279-288.

[39] Skinner JE, Weiss DN, Anchin JM, Turianikova Z, Tonhajzerova I, Javorkova J, Javorka K, Baumert M, Javorka, M.  Short-term heart rate complexity determined by the PD2i algorithm is reduced in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Clin Neurophysiol.  2011; 122:1457-1462.

[40] Baumert M, Schlaich MP, Nalivaiko E, Lambert E, Sari CI, Kaye DM, Esler MD, Sanders P, Lambert G. Relation between QT interval variability and cardiac sympathetic activity in hypertension. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2011; 300:H1412-7.

[41] Baumert M, Javorka M, Seeck A, Faber R, Sanders P, Voss A. Multiscale entropy and detrended fluctuation analysis of QT interval and heart rate variability during normal pregnancy. Comput Biol Med. accepted on 09/03/2011

[42] Kabir MM, Saint DA, Nalivaiko E, Abbott D, Voss A, Baumert M. Quantification of cardiorespiratory interactions based on joint symbolic dynamics.  Ann Biomed Eng. 2011; 39:2604-14.

[43] Kabir MM, Saint DA, Nalivaiko E, Abbott D, Baumert M. Time delay correction of the synchrogram for optimized detection of cardiorespiratory coordination.  Med Biol Eng Comput. 2011; 49:1249-59.

[44] Turianikova Z, Javorka K, Baumert M, Calkovska A, Javorka M. The effect of orthostatic stress on multiscale entropy of heart rate and blood pressure.  Physiol Meas. 2011; 32:1425-1437.

[45] Seeck A, Baumert M, Fischer C, Khandoker A, Faber R, Voss A. Advanced Poincaré Plot Analysis differentiates between hypertensive pregnancy disorders.  Physiol Meas. 2011; 32:1611-1622.

[46] Wong DTL, Weightman MJ, Baumert M, Tayeb H, Richardson JD, Puri R, Bertaso A, Roberts-Thomson KC, Sanders P, Worthley MI, Worthley SG. Electro-mechanical Characteristics of Myocardial Infarction Border Zones and Ventricular Arrhythmic Risk: Novel Insights From Grid-tagged Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging.  Eur Radiol. accepted on 13/01/2012.

[47] Hasan MA, Abbott D, Baumert M. Relation Between Beat-to-Beat QT Interval Variability and T Wave Amplitude in Healthy Subjects.  Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol. accepted on 25/01/2012.

Professional Associations

PLoS ONE, Academic Editor

IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society, Member

International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Member

e-cardiology Working Group of the European Society of Cardiology, Member

Entry last updated: Friday, 27 Jan 2012