ORCID: 0000-0001-8039-9274
Scopus: 57219890602
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pierfrancesco-Gaziano

Research Interests

• Hard tissue biomechanics
• Material homogenization techniques
• Phase field approaches

Main Publications

• M Gierig, PG, P Wriggers, M Marino, 2024. Post-angioplasty remodelling of coronary arteries investigated via a chemo-mechano-biological in silico model. Journal of Biomechanics, 112058. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2024.112058.
  An in-silico chemo-mechano-biological tool to assess arterial tissue inflammatory response due to restenosis, a well-known and important side effect of balloon angioplasty.
• PG, M Marino, 2023. A Phase-field model of cell motility in biodegradable hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. Computational Mechanics, 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-023-02422-8.
  A computational model capable of describing cell motion within biodegradable hydrogel scaffolds. It can be useful in the context of tissue engineering applications for supporting the control of the formation of new cellular clusters.
• PG, E Monaldo, C Falcinelli, G Vairo, 2022. Elasto-damage mechanics of osteons: A bottom-up multiscale approach. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 104962. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2022.104962.
  A multiscale bottom-up rationale to investigate the elasto-damage response of osteons as a first step towards refined mechanical description of cortical bone tissue at the macroscale.
• PG, C Falcinelli, G Vairo, 2022. A computational insight on damage-based constitutive modelling in femur mechanics. European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids, 93, 104538. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechsol.2022.104538.
  A comparison of different damage-based and constitutive modeling strategies on the fracture behavior of femurs under physiological loads.
• PG, C Lorenzi, D Bianchi, E Monaldo, A Dolci, G Vairo, 2020. Mechanical performance of Anatomic-Functional-Geometry dental treatments: A computational study. Medical Engineering & Physics 86, 96-108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2020.10.016
  A computational investigation that validates the effectiveness of a novel dental restoration technique with respect to gold standard treatments.
  

Main Projects and Fundings

• 2021-2023. Progetti Gruppi di Ricerca 2020, granted by Regione Lazio. Project: BIOPMEAT. From Lab to Table through Bioengineering Models. Role: Project Participant. Funding: ca. 150.000 EUR.

Short CV

Pierfrancesco Gaziano earned his master’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” in 2018, and he achieved the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Structural and Civil Engineering from the same institution in 2022, also receiving the Best PhD Thesis Award in Biomechanics from the GBMA-AIMETA group. He has carried out his postdoctoral training at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His research activities cover many aspects of computational continuum mechanics, such as phase field techniques and multiscale/multphysics approaches for applications including bone biomechanics, material design, and enabling technologies for tissue engineering. 

2023. INDAM-GNFM Fellowship – ECCOMAS 7th Young Investigators Conference (June 2023, Porto, Portugal).

2022. Best PhD thesis Award of the AIMETA Group GBMA.

2019. Best Poster Award at the IX ESB-ITA Congress (October 2019, Bologna).