Umberto Morbiducci

UMBERTO MORBIDUCCI has a Master degree in Electronic Engineering from the University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, and has obtained a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.

He received a grant from the Italian Ministry of the Scientific Research (MURST) on a National Research plan on systems for extracorporeal circulation.

From 1999 to 2005 he was Junior Scientist in the Cardiovascular Bioengineering Unit on the Italian National Institute of Health.

From 2008 to 2012 he was Adjunct Professor of Cardiovascular Biomechanics at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, where he was also Assistant Professor from 2013 to 2015.

He participated to the activity of several international, national and regional scientific research projects.

The overarching theme of his research is cardiovascular fluid mechanics. This wide research field can be broken down along several complementary lines of research. The first is the integration of medical imaging and computational modeling to elucidate the role of hemodynamic forces/structures in the development, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. This program can be further broken down along two lines: image-based modeling, which exploits medical imaging data to construct patient-specific computational fluid dynamics models; virtual imaging, which uses computational models to simulate the impact of complex anatomy, flow and motion on medical images. The second is the design and characterization, both in vitro and in silico, of the performance of blood recirculating devices.

He serves as reviewer for about 45 peer reviewed international scientific journals, and he is member of the Board of Associate Editors of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering and of Frontiers in Pediatrics - Pediatric Cardiology. At present, he is Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. He is author of more than 270 publications, 90 of them in peer-reviewed international journals.