Technical Committee for Biomechanical Engineering

Mission & Organization
The mission of the TC for Biomechanical Engineering is to promote and disseminate the mechanical approach in applications involving the study of biological systems. The cultural challenge is to apply the knowledge in the functioning and control of machines and mechanisms to the study of biological systems, with special regard to the human-machine interaction at all levels: mechanical, physiological, and even psychological.
Scholars in Biomechanical Engineering collaborate with researchers in medical, clinical, and physiological areas.
Biomechanical Engineering is declined into a variety of topics, for example (but not only) biomechanics of the human body, motion/equilibrium/postural analysis, articular kinematics, soft tissue mechanics, mechanics of fluid systems (cardio-circulatory, respiratory, …). The human-machine interaction comprises rehabilitation devices, orthoses, internal and external prostheses, exoskeletons, medical applications of robotics, robotic surgery, and haptic systems.
Leadership
Function | Name | Affiliation |
Chair |
Prof. Carlo Ferraresi
Politecnico di Torino carlo.ferraresi@polito.it |
Politecnico di Torino
DIMEAS Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino ITALY |
Deputy chair |
Prof. Sunil Agrawal
Columbia University sunil.agrawal@columbia.edu |
Columbia University
Department of Mechanical Engineering 500 West 120th Street 10027 New York, New York USA |
Chair Secretariat |
Dr. Daniela Maffiodo
Politecnico di Torino daniela.maffiodo@polito.it |
Politecnico di Torino
DIMEAS Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino ITALY |
Members
MO
|
Name | Affiliation |
Australia | Prof. Marcus Pandy | University of Melbourne |
Brazil | Prof. Marko Ackermann | Centro Universitário da FEI (FEI) |
Brazil | Prof. Luciano Luporini Menegaldo | Military Institute of Engineering - IME |
China-Taipei | Prof. Ming-Yih Lee | Chang Gung University |
Czech Republic | Prof. Ludek Hyncik | University of West Bohemia |
Czech Republic | Prof. Pavel Steinbauer | Czech Technical University |
Denmark | Prof. Dejan Popovic | Aalborg University |
Finland | Prof. Adam Klodowski | Lappeenranta University of Technology |
France | Prof. Med Amine Laribi | Université de Poitiers |
France | Prof. Fethi Ben Ouezdou | Université de Versailles |
Germany | Prof. Peter Eberhard | Universität Stuttgart |
Germany | Prof. Andres Kecskemethy | University of Duisburg-Essen |
Hungary | Prof. Lajos Borbas | Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
Hungary | Prof. Rita Kiss | Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
Israel | Prof. Moshe Shoham | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
Italy |
Dr. Carlo De Benedictis |
Politecnico di Torino |
Italy | Prof. Guido Danieli | Università della Calabria |
Italy | Prof. Raffaele Di Gregorio | Università degli Studi di Ferrara |
Italy | Dr. Daniele Cafolla | IRCCS Neuromed |
Italy | Prof. Marco Ceccarelli | University of Rome Tor Vergata |
Italy | Prof. Walter Franco |
Politecnico di Torino |
Italy | Prof. Laura Gastaldi |
Politecnico di Torino |
Italy | Prof. Silvia Logozzo | University of Perugia |
Italy | Dr. Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo | University of Verona |
Italy | Prof. Erika Ottaviano | University of Cassino and Southern Lazio |
Italy | Prof. Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli | Unversità degli Studi di Bologna |
Japan | Prof. Kenji Hashimoto | Meiji University |
Japan | Prof. Gentiane Venture | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
Lebanon | Prof. Rany Rizk | Lebanese University |
Mexico | Prof. Christopher René Torres-San Miguel | Instituto Politécnico Nacional |
Netherlands | Prof. Just Herder | Delft University of Technology |
Poland | Prof. Wojciech Blajer | Technical University of Radom |
Portugal | Prof. Miguel Pedro da Silva | Instituto Superior Técnico |
Portugal | Prof. Paulo Flores | University of Minho |
Romania | Prof. Doina Pisla | Technical University of Cluj-Napoca |
Romania | Prof. Daniela Tarnita | University of Craiova |
Slovakia | Prof. Branislav Hucko | Slovenska Technicka Univerzita V Bratislave |
Spain | Prof. Javier Alonso | University of Extremadura |
Spain | Prof. Juana Maria Mayo Nunez | University of Seville |
USA | Prof. Dumitru Caruntu | University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley |
USA | Prof. Bahram Ravani | University of California-Davis |
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