Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Valeria Chiono
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Valeria Chiono has a Master Degree cum laude in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy. She is currently Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her research is aimed at the design of innovative bioengineering approaches to solve key problems in regenerative medicine and nanomedicine, and includes the development of bioactive materials and interfaces, tissue engineering, materials characterization, in vitro tissue models, drug delivery and non-viral gene therapy. One main research topic is cardiac tissue engineering. She has been the coordinator of several research projects, including STARIGEN FIRB2010 project, financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, on the preparation of biomimetic scaffolds for cardiac regeneration. In 2017 she has been granted the ERC Consolidator project BIORECAR (contract number: 772168; http://www.biorecar.polito.it/) on advanced strategies for cardiac regeneration by direct reprogramming of fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes by an injectable hydrogel releasing miRNA-loaded nanoparticles. In BIORECAR in vitro models of fibrotic human cardiac tissue are also developed for preclinical investigation. Furthermore, she manages BIORECAR Laboratory at Politecnico di Torino. She is the main lecturer of the following courses at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino: “Engineering for regenerative medicine”, “Cell and tissue engineering” and “Laboratory of Tissues and Physiological Processes' Models”. In 2021, she has been appointed Deputy-Director of Centro3R. She is author of 123 scientific publications (H-index: 33 Scopus, 38 Google Scholar) and 5 patents in the field of biomaterials, tissue engineering and nanomedicine. h4>

Gianni Ciofani, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Smart Bio-Interfaces, Pontedera, Italy
Serena Danti, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Unversity of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Ana Ferreira-Duarte, School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Piergiorgio Gentile, School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Anwarul Hasan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hossein Hosseinkhani, Innovation Center for Advanced Technology, Matrix, Inc., New York, NY, USA
Clara Mattu, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Santos Merino, IK4 - Tekniker, Eibar, Spain
Liliana Liverani, R&D Officer, DGS S.p.A.
Alice Ravizza, USE-ME-D srl, Turin, Italy
Ipsita Roy, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shieffield, Shieffield, United Kingdom
Jochen Salber, University Clinic Knappschaft, Bochum, Germany
Chiara Tonda-Turo, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Giovanni Vozzi, Centro E. Piaggio, Bionengineering and Robotics Research Centre, Pisa, Italy
Cuie Wen, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Yeong Wai Yee, Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Cluster, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore