Prof. Alessio Gizzi

Full Professor of Building Science at the Departmental Faculty of Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma from 2025.

Titular of the "Science of Constructions" course in the second year of the Degree Course in Industrial Engineering.

Professor of "Computational Modeling in Biomechanics" in the second year of the Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering.

Lecturer of the "Mechanics of Solids" course in the second year of the Biomedical Engineering degree program.

He carries out research activities in various fields concerning theoretical and computational biomechanics, with over 100 scientific papers in high impact factor international journals.

He is reviewer and editor for various scientific journals in Biomechanics, Mechanobiology, Theoretical and Computational Modeling.

He is the author of the textbook "Building Science for Biomedical Engineering", CittaStudi, 2023.

GRANT

2025-2030: ERC Consolidator #101170592 "Modeling InterScale Energetics in Gastrointestinal Electromechanics" - MiGEM.

INSTRUCTION

2020: National Qualification as Full Professor in Construction Science – ICAR/08.

2017: National Qualification as Associate Professor in Building Science – ICAR/08.

2012: PhD in Biomedical Engineering.

2008: National Qualification to the profession of Industrial Engineer.

2008: Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering summa cum laude.

2006: BS Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering summa cum laude and special mention.

ADVANCED COURSES

2018: “Integrative Cardiac Dynamics” Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara (USA).

2016: “Nonlinear Elasticity for Rubber-like materials and Soft Tissues”. Catholic University, Brescia.

2012: “Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology”. Graz University of Technology.

2012: “An Introduction to Nonlinear Solid Mechanics”. Politecnico di Milano.

2011: “Advanced and Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics”. CISM, International Center for Mechanical Sciences.

2009: “Dynamic Systems for the Biology of Systems”. Les Houches, Pôle de Biologie Systémique de Nice.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022-today: Board of PhD Teachers IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca.

2021-2025: Executive Board ESB-ITA: Italian Chapter of the European Society of Biomechanics.

2017: PhD Lecturer in “Multiphysics Computational Mechanics”, Technical University of Munich (TUM).

2017-2021: Board of PhD teachers UCBM.

2016: PhD Lecturer in “Computer Science and Systems Engineering”, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca.

2015-today: Coordinator of the University Tutoring Degree Course in Industrial Engineering.

2015-2021: TD Researcher, Construction Science – ICAR/08.

2014: Project Contract, Construction Science – ICAR/08.

2012-2014: Research Fellow (PostDoc), Building Science – ICAR/08.

2009-2017: Didactic activity in the Bachelor's and Master's Degree courses in Engineering.

A. Gizzi, A. D. McCulloch, and C. S. Drapaca. Multiscale modeling and analysis in biophysics. J. Appl. Phys. 135:210401 (2024).

RT Djoumessy, P. Lenarda, A. Gizzi, S. Giusti, P. Alduini, and M. Paggi. In silico model of colon electromechanics for manometry prediction after laser tissue soldering. Computing Method Appl. Mech. Eng. 426:116989 (2024).

D. Preve, P. Lenarda, D. Bianchi, and A. Gizzi. Phase field modeling and simulation of damage occurring in human vertebra after screws fixation procedure. Computing Mech. (2024).

A. Gizzi*, C. J. Cyron, C. Falcinelli, and M. Vasta. Evolution of fiber distributions in homogenized constrained mixture models of soft tissue growth and remodeling: uniaxial loading. J. Mech. Phys. Sol. 183:105491 (2024).

A. Barone, D. Grieco, A. Gizzi*, L. Molinari, M. Zaltieri, C. Massaroni, E. Schena, A. Loppini, E. Bressi, E. de Ruvo, L. Caló, and S. Filippi. A simulation study of the effects of His Bundle Pacing in Left Bundle Branch Block. Med. Eng. Phys. 103847 (2022).

A. Pandolfi, M.L. De Bellis, A. Gizzi, and M. Vasta. Modeling the degeneration of the collagen architecture in a microstructural model of the human cornea. Math. Mech. Sol. May (2022).

B.Pathel, A. Gizzi, J. Hashemi, Y. Awakeem, H. Gregersen, and G. Kassab. Biomechanical constitutive modeling of gastrointestinal tissues: A systematic review. Matt. Design 217:110576 (2022).

L. Molinari, L. Geraro-Giorda, and A. Gizzi*. A transversely isotropic thermo-hyperelastic constitutive model of myocardial tissue with a three-state cell death dynamics for cardiac radiofrequency ablation. J. Mech. Phys. Sol 161:104810 (2022).

N. Cusimano, L. Gerardo-Giorda, and A. Gizzi. A space-fractional bidomain framework for cardiac electrophysiology: 1D alternans dynamics. Chaos 31:073123 (2021).

A. Nitti, J. Kiendl, A. Gizzi, A. Reali, and MD de Tullio. A curvilinear isogeometric framework for the electromechanical activation of thin muscular tissues. Computing Methods Appl. Mech. Engng. 382:113877 (2021).

A. Loppini, A. Barone, A. Gizzi*, C. Cherubini, F. H. Fenton, and S. Filippi. Thermal effects on cardiac alternans onset and development: A spatiotemporal correlation analysis. Phys. Rev E Letter 103:L040201 (2021).

A. Gizzi, ML De Bellis, M. Vasta, and A. Pandolfi. Diffusion-based degeneration of the collagen reinforcement in the pathological human cornea. J. Eng. Math. 127:3 (2021)

A. Barone, MG Carlino, A. Gizzi, S. Perotto, and A. Veneziani. Efficient estimation of cardiac conductivities based on a proper generalized decomposition approach. J. Comput. Phys. 420 109810 (2020)

A. Pandolfi, A. Gizzi, M. Vasta. A microstructural model of crosslink interaction between collagen fibrils in the human cornea. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 377:20180079 (2019) (Cover).

C. Falcinelli, A. Di Martino, A. Gizzi, G. Vairo, and V. Denaro. Mechanical behavior of metastatic femurs through patient-specific computational models accounting for bone-metastasis interaction. J.Mech. Behav. Biomed. Mat. 93:9–22 (2019).

A. Loppini, A. Gizzi, R. Ruiz-Baier, C. Cherubini, F. H. Fenton, and S. Filippi. Competing mechanisms of stress-assisted diffusivity and stretch-activated currents in cardiac electromechanics. Front. Physiol. 9:1714 (2018).

S. Brandstaeter, A. Gizzi, SL Fuchs, AM Gebauer, RC Aydin, CJ Cyron. Computational model of gastric motility with active-strain electromechanics. Z. Angew. Math. Mech. (ZAMM) 98:2177–2197 (2018) (Cover).

P. Lenarda, A. Gizzi, M. Paggi. A modeling framework for electro-mechanical interaction between excitable deformable cells. Eur. J. Mech. A - Sol 72:374–392 (2018).

A. Gizzi, A. Pandolfi, and M. Vasta. A generalized statistical approach for modeling fibre-reinforced materials. J. Eng. Math. 109:211–226 (2018).