MAIN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

 

1. Nele Famaey, KU Leuven, Belgium (https://www.mech.kuleuven.be/en/bme/research/soft-tissue-biomechanics/People/00052764): simulation of growth and remodeling in blood vessels

2. Yiqian He, Dalian University of Technology, China (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yiqian_He):  simulation of healing in soft tissues, identification of chemoelastic material properties

3. Yue Mei, Dalian University of Technology, China (http://faculty.dlut.edu.cn/meiyue/en/index.htm): resolution of inverse problems for soft tissue mechanics

4. Simona Celi, Fondazione G Monasterio, Italy (http://bcl.ftgm.it/index.php/people/simona-celi/): biomechanics of thoracic aortic aneurysms

5. Jay Humphrey, Yale University, USA (https://seas.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/jay-humphrey): identification of regional variations in the material properties of blood vessels

6. Salvatore Pasta, University of Palermo, Italy (https://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/p/salvatore.pasta): mechanics of aortic thoracic aneurysms and dissections

7. Christian Hellmich, Technische Universität Wien, Austria (https://www.imws.tuwien.ac.at/): homogenization in mechanobiology

8. Bethany Keenan, Sam Evans, Cardiff University, UK (https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/364366-evans-sam): identification of the mechanical properties of soft tissues with the virtual fields method

9. Cristobal Bertoglio, University of Groningen, the Netherlands (https://www.rug.nl/staff/c.a.bertoglio/): hemodynamics in thoracic aortic aneurysms

10. Tríona Lally, Trinity College Dublin (https://www.tcd.ie/mecheng/staff/lallyca/): imaging of the microstructure of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms

11. Richard Lopata, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands (https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/richard-lopata/): in vivo identification of mechanical properties of aortic aneurysms

12. Jia Lu, University of Iowa, USA (https://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/faculty-staff/jia-lu): inverse problems in soft tissue biomechanics, machine learning

13. Jose Xavier, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal (https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/persons/jos%C3%A9-xavier): mechanics of aortic aneurysms

14. Nuno Dourado, University of Minho, Portugal (https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2096648125-Nuno-Dourado): mechanical characterization of soft tissues

15. Anne Robertson, University of Pittsburg, USA (https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/annerobertson/): identification of regional variations of mechanical properties in soft tissues using inflation tests and digital image correlation

16. Marco Evangelos Biancolini, University Tor Vergata Rome, Italy (https://uniroma2.academia.edu/MarcoEvangelosBiancolini): digital twin of aortic aneurysms

17. Umberto Morbiducci, Politecnico Torino, Italy (https://didattica.polito.it/portal/pls/portal/sviluppo.scheda_pers_swas.show?m=020459): fluid structure interactions in ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms

18. Sue Lessner, University of South Carolina, USA (https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/engineering_and_computing/faculty-staff/lessner.php): computational modelling of arterial dissections

19. Joris Dirckx, University of Antwerpen, Belgium (https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/personeel/joris-dirckx/): application of the virtual fields method to identify the mechanical properties of the tympanic membrane

20. Vicky Nguyen, Johns Hopkins University, USA (https://me.jhu.edu/faculty/thao-vicky-nguyen/): application of the virtual fields method to identify the mechanical properties of ocular tissues

21. Alberto Figueroa, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA (https://bme.umich.edu/people/c-alberto-figueroa/): computer fluid dynamics after endovascular aortic repair

22. Ender Finol, University of Texas San Antonio, USA (https://www.uthscsa.edu/academics/biomedical-sciences/faculty/profile/64921/Finol%2C-Ender): stress analysis in aortic aneurysms

23. Alberto Aliseda, University of Washington, USA (https://www.me.washington.edu/facultyfinder/alberto-aliseda): mechanobiology of atrial fibrillation

24. Gerhard Holzapfel, Technische Universität Graz, Austria (https://www.biomech.tugraz.at/):  biomechanics of aortic dissections

25. Pablo Ruiz, Loughborough University, UK (https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/meme/staff/pablo-d-ruiz/): interferometric techniques for microscale deformation full-field measurements in cell and tissue constructs

26. Coreu Neu, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (https://www.colorado.edu/mechanical/corey-neu): stiffness reconstruction in soft tissues and cells using the virtual fields method