The Institute Biomedical and Neural Engineering is happy to invite you to a seminar on Tuesday April 28, room  M209 at 11:00 the talk is entitled :

Mechanobiology: a key to deciphering Nature and tackling challenges in  Bioengineering

Speaker: Prof Massimiliano Fraldi, University Federico II Napoli.

MASSIMILIANO FRALDI (magna cum laude in 1995 and PhD in 1999 in Structural Engineering at University of Napoli Federico II, post-doc and visiting researcher at Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, and Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at City College of New York, USA) is full professor of Mechanics of Structures, Nonlinear Mechanics and Neuro-Biomechanics at the University of Napoli Federico II, Italy, where he is head of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Structural Composites (SCIC) and the Laboratory of Integrated Mechanics and Imaging for Testing and Simulation of bio-systems (LIMITS), delegate of the Rector for the Infrastructure for Research in Oncology, member of the Task Force on Quantitative and Computational Biology and the Doctoral College of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering and Seismic Risk at the Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture (DIST). Since 2022, he is visiting professor at the LPENS – Department of Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (France) and since 2025 is Coordinator of the Italian Group of Mechanics of Materials (GMA). He is/has been PI, co-PI and/or Research Unit coordinator for many funded research projects, being responsible in the last five years for a personal contribution of about 3 million euros. He also served as scientific consultant for public research institutes and international R&D departments of leading companies working in the fields of aerospace and mechanical engineering and pipelines, and as technical expert for mechanics of structures for the Court/Judicial Authority as well. In the last years, he has been invited speaker, among other, at University of Oxford, “Mathematics and Mechanics: Natural Philosophy in the 21st Century”, summer school on Advances in Functional Materials organized by the “Ettore Majorana Foundation”, INdAM Meeting on “Active materials: from mechanobiology to smart devices” in Cortona (Italy), International Conference on Waves and Stability in Continuous Media (WASCOM), Institute Isaac Newton of Cambridge, UK, XXVI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Daegu, Korea, in 2024 and at the School of Engineering and Computing, University of Maine, USA, in 2025, at the Mechano-X workshop in Bali, Indonesia, at Salerno University, Italy, for the Signorini’s lecture, and at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam (MPIKG), Germany, in 2026, being invited professor for the Ravello Summer School of Mathematical Physics next September 2026. In the last few years, he has been co-organizer of the NSF-supported USA-Italy workshop “Biomechanics Outlining New Disciplines” (U&I:BOND) and Chair of the XXVI Congress of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA), in 2024. He is author of more than 150 scientific papers published on international journals, whose themes cover a broad range of topics, from theory of elasticity and analytical methods in stability, plasticity and dynamics to optimization of composites and mechanics of soft matter and living systems. At the University of Napoli, he is group leader, coordinating the research activities of six young researchers/associate professors and several PhD students and post-docs.