Alessio Gizzi

Associate Professor of Building Science at the Departmental Faculty of Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma from 2021.

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

Holder of the "Mechanics of Biological Systems" course in the second year of the Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering.

Tutor for the course "Dynamics of Complex Systems" in the second year of the Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering.

Titular of the course of "Solid Mechanics" in the second year of the Degree Course in Biomedical Engineering.

He carries out research activities in various fields concerning theoretical and computational biomechanics, with over 80 scientific papers in high impact factor international journals.

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

INSTRUCTION

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

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

2012: Ph.D. Doctorate 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.

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.

2021-2023: 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. 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).

D. Lo Presti, D. Bianchi, C. Massaroni, A. Gizzi, E. Schena. A soft and skin-interfaced smart patch based on fiber optics for cardiorespiratory monitoring. Biosensors 12:363 (2022).

D. Bianchi, C. Falcinelli, L. Molinari, A. Gizzi*, and A. Di Martino. Osteolitic vs. Osteoblastic metastatic lesion: Computational modeling of fracture risk in the human vertebra after screws fixation procedure. J. Clin. Med 11:2850 (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).

A. Loppini, J. Erhardt, F. H. Fenton, S. Filippi, M. Hörning, and A. Gizzi. Optical ultrastructure of canine hearts recovers discordant alternans by in-silco data assimilation. Front. Netw. Physiol. (2022).

L. Molinari, M. Zaltieri, A. Massaroni, S. Filippi, A. Gizzi*, and E. Schena. Multiphysics and multiscale modeling of anisotropic cardiac RFA: Experimental-based model calibration via multi-point temperature measurements. Front. Physiol. 13: 845896 (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 electro-

physiology: 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).