The team

Prof. Giovanni Vozzi is Full Professor at the Dpt. of Information Engineering and fellow of the Research Center “E. Piaggio”, University of Pisa.

Prof. Carmelo De Maria is Associate Professor at the Dpt. of Information Engineering and fellow of the Research Center “E. Piaggio”, University of Pisa.

Prof. Aurora De Acutis is Assistant Professor at the Dpt. of Information Engineering and fellow of the Research Center “E. Piaggio”, University of Pisa.

Prof. Gabriele Maria Fortunato is Assistant Professor at the Dpt. of Information Engineering and fellow of the Research Center “E. Piaggio”, University of Pisa.
His current research if focused on investigating the potential of the in situ bioprinting technology. Another main topic of his research is additive manufacturing techniques and their combination (extrusion-based 3D bioprinting, ink-jet printing, electrospinning) to fabricate multiscale and multimaterial scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. Moreover, he is also involved in the design and development of bioreactors for static and dynamic culture as well as open-source medical devices. 

Post-docs

Irene Chiesa

PhD with advanced knowledge in 3D and 4D (bio)printing for tissue engineering and biomedical applications

Amedeo Franco Bonatti

PhD with a strong background on machine design and artificial intelligence for quality-controlled bioprinting

Mauro Di Stasi

PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, working at the interface of cellular pharmacology, biomedical engineering, and advanced biomaterials.

Elisa Batoni

PhD with advanced expertise on sustainable biomaterials design processed through advanced biofabrication to develop scaffolds for in vitro tissue models, and develop of Finite Element and AI-driven in silico models to accelerate biomaterial design.

Costanza Daddi

PhD with extensive experience in developes advanced bioengineering platforms, to generate in-vitro models of the intestinal tissue and recapitulate the human gut microbiota-intestine crosstalk in vitro.

Alessio Esposito

PhD with extensive competency in combining advanced manufacturing technologies for biofabrication and in vitro model development.

PhD candidates and research fellows

Alessandro Velletri

Alessandro's research focuses on the integration of multimaterial and multiscale bioprinting technologies, with particular interest over melt electro writing

Andrea Guerra

Andrea's research focuses on the development of 3D printing tools and control algorithms to enable 3D printing on anatomical, therefore non-planar, surfaces characterized by high geometric complexity and, in some cases, in motion.

Edoardo Bilancia

Edoardo's research focuses on the development of minimally invasive automated devices for in situ bioprinting to reconstruct colorectal defects, with subsequent preclinical and industrial translation.

Marco Raffo

Marco's research focuses on the deveopment of a minimally invasive handheld device for in stitu bioprinting of osteocondral defect.

Maria Grazia Soriano

Maria Grazia's research focuses on the design and validation of a multi-organ platform for studying the microbiota-gut-heart axis, through the use of cell cultures, biomaterials and computational simulations.

Viola Pieroni

Viola's research focuses on the development and validation of the first multi-organ-on-chip platform for the gut-heart-brain axis;with partiular interest on its use in preclinical drug research and personalised medicine.

Valentina Piras

Valentina's research focus on developing a software framework that leverages novel view synthesis for arthroscopic 3D reconstruction of oste-ochondral defects, enabling accurate in situ bi-oprinting of patient-specific tissue constructs.

Giuseppe Raffaele

Giuseppe's activities involve the development of systems for data acquisition, feature extraction and the prediction of biomaterial properties (photorheology, degradation, printability), to producing a multi-toolhead endoscope device for in situ printing.

Alumni

Anna Lapomarda
Francesco Biagini
Simone Micalizzi

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Florinda Coro

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Ginevra Pegollo

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Students

  • Martina Remedi
  • Chiara Pardini
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