Mechanics of Soft Materials - Special Issue on Experiments, Modeling and Simulation in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
Introducing our upcoming Special Issue entitled 'Experiments, Modeling and Simulation in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology'.
Guest Editors:
Giuseppe Vairo, University of Rome, Italy Alessio Gizzi, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy Michele Marino, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Daniele Bianchi, University of Rome Campus Bio-Medico, Italy
Submission deadlines:
Opening date: January 2023 Closure date: January 2025
Guest Editor Biographies:
Giuseppe Vairo graduated from the University of Rome Tor Vergata 1998 in Mechanical Engineering, where he received in 2002 also the PhD degree in Structural Engineering. Actually, he is Full Professor in Mechanics of Materials and Structures at the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Visiting Professor in 2016 at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Sorbonne Universités, Paris). Author of more than 150 scientific publications (more than 80 peer-reviewed), many lectures in international and national congresses, 2 European Patents. Awarded with international and national prices (e.g., Seal of Excellence 2018, by European Commission; Capocaccia Award 2005, by Italian Association for Stress Analysis; Giorgio Savastano Award 2004, by European Federation Simulation Societies). He is a Member of Organizing Committees of many scientific international events (e.g., congresses and schools). Member of many scientific associations and laboratories (e.g., EUROMECH, GAMM, ECCOMAS, IACM, EUROSIM, French-Italian “Laboratoire Lagrange”, ESB, GNB). His main research interest includes mechanicsof solids and structures; mechanics of advanced materials and smart structures; constitutive modeling; applied mathematics and numerical methods; biomechanics of tissues and biological systems; bioprinting.
Alessio Gizzi is graduated from the University of Rome Campus Bio-Medico (UCBM) in 2008 in Biomedical Engineering. In 2012, he received PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from the same university. Since 2021, he is an Associate Professor in Solid and Structural Mechanics at UCBM. He is an expert in the area of soft active materials, fiber-distributed soft tissues, mathematical modeling of cardiac electrophysiology, gastrointestine biomechanics and biological structures with multi-field coupling mechanisms. He has published over 70 journal papers and presented his work at numerous international conferences. He is a member of the EUROMECH, Executive Board of the Italian Chapter of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB-ITA), an editorial board member Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Academic Journal of Engineering Sciences, International Journal of Mathematical Physics, Frontiers in Network Physiology. He has recently received national and international grants for development of advanced constitutive models for biological materials considering multi-field couplings. He is currently an expert member for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on medical devices and in vitro diagnostics.
Michele Marino is graduated from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2008 in Medical Engineering. In 2013, he received the PhD Degree in Structural Mechanics from the same university. From 2014 to 2019, he has worked firstly as a post-doctoral researcher, and then as lecturer and Group Leader, at the Institute of Continuum Mechanics of the Leibniz University of Hannover. Since 2020, he holds a tenure-track young professorship at the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science in the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In his career, he has been awarded numerous awards and grants as principal investigator, among which the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany), a tenure-track young professorship within the Rita-Levi Montalcini Program (MIUR, Italy) and the Junior AIMETA Prize in Mechanics of Solids and Structures. He has co-authored more than 50 publications among articles in peer-reviewed International Journals, papers in International Collections, Book Chapters, and Editorials. He has been guest-editor of three Special Issues in peer-reviewed International Journals and editor of two Collective Books edited respectively by Springer and Elsevier. His research interests cover multiscale constitutive modelling and finite element analyses, optimization problems and data-driven approaches, chemo-mechano-biological modelling. His research activities find applications in structural analyses with microstructured materials, biomechanics, and tissue engineering.
Daniele Bianchi is graduated from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2014 in Biomedical Engineering. In 2018, he received the PhD degree in Structural Mechanics from the same university. From 2018 to 2020, he actively participated in the research activities of the European project AArteMIS - Aneurysmal Arterial Mechanics: Into the Structure (ERC Starting Grant funding n ° 638804) at the École nationale supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (France). In 2018 he founded Medere srl, an Italian start-up providing solutions and innovation for medicine and health. From 2020 to 2021, he has worked as post-doctoral researcher at the University of Pavia. Since 2022, he is Assistant Professor at the University of Rome Campus Bio-Medico. The results of the research activity have been published in high-impact international journals and have been presented at prestigious international and national conferences. He holds two patents and, during his carrier, he has been awarded in national and international contest. Research activities concern the development of computational approaches for the simulation of the mechanical response of biological tissues. His research interests include regard computational mechanics, biological soft materials, constitutive modeling, multiscale homogenization, and mechanobiology of vascular structures.
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