José Manuel Rivera Arbelaéz is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) of the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is part of the BIOS lab on a chip group lead by Prof. Albert van den Berg and Applied Stem Cell Technologies (AST) lead by Prof. Robert Passier. His research focuses on the development of a heart-on-chip model for drug discovery and disease modelling.