Prof. Luciano teresi

LT graduated with honors (magna cum laude) in Aeronautical Engineering at Sapienza, Università di Roma, and earned a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the same university in 1996.

 

 

Main research lines include:

 

- Mechanics of active soft matter; swelling in gels; soft elasticity of nematic elastomers; growth and remodeling of living tissues; mechanical models for muscles. - Biomechanics: growth and remodeling of living tissues; mechanical models for muscles, modelling of electro-mechanics of the heart.

 

 Appointments & Visiting Positions: 


 

- University of Texas at Austin, USA: scholarship sponsored by ‘J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program’ at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, 2007 & 2010.

 

- SISSA-ISAS (International School for Advanced Studies), Trieste, Italy: scholarship sponsored by ‘Functional Analysis & Application Sector’, 2006 ~ 2010.

 

- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA: scholarship sponsored by IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications), during the thematic year ‘Mathematics of Materials and Macromolecules’, 2005.


 

- Columbia University, New York City, USA: visiting scholar at Department of Civil Engineering, March-May 2002. 


 

- Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany: visiting scholar sponsored by Max Planck Gesellschaft, November 1998 - February 1999. 


 

 

Organisation of Conferences & Workshops (past three years):

 

- “Mathematical Physiology of Cardiac, Skeletal and Smooth Muscles”, Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, 2015.

 

- “Just Solve It”, a series of Workshops on Computational Sciences at Roma Tre University, 2014~2015.

 

- “Workshop on Mechanics in Biology”, at GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Institute), L’Aquila, 2014.

 

- INdAM Meeting “The Mathematics of Cells and Tissues”, at Il Palazzone, Cortona, 2013, 


 

 

 

He is author of ~100 publications on international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.