Overview
Peter Mortier is a co-founder of FEops and is based in Gent. Since November 2025 he has been co-founder and chief executive of HelloTriangle. From August 2024 to November 2025 he was cardiac business line director at Materialise.
At FEops he served as managing director from July 2009 to January 2015 and then as chief technology officer from January 2015 to August 2024. He was also an affiliated researcher at Ghent University from 2010 to 2016.
Mortier completed a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Ghent University between 2007 and 2010.
Career history
In the news
- A while ago, I was a bit skeptical about physics AI. 😅 But now, I am really convinced it will fundamentally change how we design and develop products. Exciting times!
- Powerful physics AI models deserve a cool user interface. The video shows how engineers can use our physics AI models directly through the HelloTriangle platform. This stent design has around 40 parameters that can be adjusted with sliders. Click Run, and within seconds, you can see the predicted shape after shape setting and strain field after crimping. And this is just one example. The same approach can be applied to other medical devices and other simulation outputs. With this, R&D teams can quickly understand the impact of
- Building an AI model for medical device design sounds like a big, long-term investment. It doesn't have to be. We built one for stent design in 2 weeks. Here's how we did it: 1) We automatically generated 170 variants of a stent unit, including complete Abaqus input files, using HelloTriangle. 2) All simulations ran in less than 4 hours (shapesetting + crimping + expansion). 3) Around 150 of them were used to train AI models that predict the stent shape after shape setting, the strain field after crimping, foreshortening, and
- Engineers developing novel medical devices use a range of complementary approaches to explore and validate their designs. That toolbox has evolved considerably over the years, and we are now seeing another major shift. You could split this evolution into three eras. Importantly, each new era builds on the previous ones rather than replacing them. 1️⃣ Build, test, redesign Physical prototypes and bench tests. Reliable, but slow and expensive. Every new idea means building something new. 2️⃣ Simulation-driven design FEA and CFD made
- This week, we moved into our new office at the Wintercircus Ghent thanks to the imec.istart program. And honestly, it’s hard not to smile when you arrive at the office in the morning. 😊 What a beautiful and inspiring place to build and grow HelloTriangle.
- Making simple what used to be complex, that's our goal.
- Excited to be part of the new imec.istart Summer 2026 cohort! A big thank you to the imec.istart team for believing in our vision and welcoming HelloTriangle. We're looking forward to working with the coaches, partners, and other startups in the program as we take the next steps.
- Having worked on patient-specific simulations for thousands of patients, I've seen firsthand how important it is to create scalable workflows. The challenge is rarely the simulation itself. It's building a process that can be applied efficiently and consistently across hundreds or thousands of models. This post shows how we're tackling that challenge at HelloTriangle.
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