Invited Speakers

Modelling, designing and simulating living systems with BlenX

Paola Lecca, The Microsoft Research - University of Trento, Italy

B.Sc. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Trento (Italy) and PhD in Computer Science from the International Doctorate School in Information and Communication Technologies at the University of Trento, Italy. PhD thesis: “Modeling and simulating system biology with stochasticity”. Post-laurea positions as Research Assistant at Bruno Kessler Foundation in the group of Predictive Models for Biological and Environmental Data Analysis, and Research Assistant in the Particle Theoretical Physics group at the Department of Physics at the University of Trento. Currently, researcher at The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology. Current research activities: system’s identification and model calibration, optimal experimental design, stochastic chemical kinetics, reaction-diffusion systems modeling and simulation, analysis and processing of experimental spectroscopic data.

Extrusion based on biomanufacturing process

Paulo Jorge Bártolo, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

In-silico models as a tool for the design of medical device technologies

Jose M. García Aznar, University of Zaragoza, Spain

BSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Spain (1995). PhD in Computational Mechanics from the University of Zaragoza; Thesis work on computational simulation of bone remodeling (1999). Post-doctorate fellow at the Center for Science and Technology in Medicine, University of Keele, United Kingdom (2001), working on computational simulation of tissue differentiation in bone fracture healing. Currently, Full Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the University of Zaragoza and member of I3A (Aragón Institute of Engineering Research). Awards: Juan C. Simo Young Investigator Award by SEMNI (2004). Council Member of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) (2004-), and currently Vicepresident (2008-). Current research mainly focuses on Computational Mechanobiology (mechanics of hard tissues, mechanobiology of skeletal tissue regeneration and tissue engineering, tissue growth and development, cell mechanics), Non-linear FEA and Multiscale and Multiphysics approaches.

Functional biomechanical continuum analysis and applications

Todd Pataky, Shinshu University, Japan

B.Sc. in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario in 1999 and Ph.D. in Biomechanics and Mechanical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2004. He currently is an Assistant Professor at Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan, where his research focuses on the theory and applications of functional biomechanical field analysis. Particular research interests include: dynamic plantar pressure imaging, statistical parametric mapping and image registration, and probabilistic finite element simulations.