Simone

Biography

Dr. Simone Tassani is senior researcher of the Multiscale and Computational Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (MBIOMM) team in the SIMBiosys group. His research focuses (i) on multilevel analysis of the interaction between body, organ and tissue level, and (ii) on how these interactions can be driven by, or related to, body motion and subject behaviour, with particular interest to the impact that relaxation disciplines, like Tai-Chi or Yoga, can have over human movement. Numerical methods are used to combine rigid body to organ and tissue level modelling. Dr. Tassani was born in Italy and holds a master degree in Biomechanics and a PhD in Bioengineering both from the University Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, Italy. Dr. Tassani developed his research career at Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute studying the biomechanics of human trabecular tissue by means of micro tomographic techniques with specific focus over OsteoArthrisis, Osteoporosis and bone framework remodelling. In 2010 he moved to the Institute of Communication and Computer System, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, during the project MOSAIC, acquiring knowledge related to image processing (e.g. segmentation, registration of images) and classification procedures (e.g. learning machines, neural networks, linear classifiers). During this period he also spent 4 months at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, attending specialized courses on bioethics and ethics in scientific publications. In 2013 he performed an intensive training in Tai-Chi discipline at Yuntai Mountain International Culture and Martial arts School, Jiao zuo city, Hennan, China, acquiring an official certificate. Mixing biomechanical and Tai-Chi knowledge Dr. Tassani started in 2014 at Fundació Privada Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya the sMART-O project for the study of biomechanics characteristics of Tai-Chi. In February 2015 he moved to the Universitat Pompeu Fabra exploring the possibilities of multilevel modelling and the capability of different subject to minimize the amount of energy required during a specific task though relaxation. Dr. Tassani has more than 30 contributions to congresses, and has published 13 articles in international journals, (ORCID: 0000-0002-8652-2314| Scopus h-Index: 6, Citations: 171 | Google Scholar h-Index: 8, Citations: 402) and keeps active collaborations with most of his previous colleagues and others overseas in Australia and Brazil. Dr. Tassani is an active member of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB), and its Italian and Spanish chapters. In 2010 he was awarded with a Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie and in 2014 with a Beatriu de Pinos fellowships and he participated to two European projects. In 2015 he was also co-promoter of two research contracts with both hospitals and companies. He finally is assigned as referee for the international journals “Journal of Biomechanics”, “Journal of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions”, “Computer methods and programs in biomedicine”, “Clinical Anatomy”, “Journal of Biomedical Material Research: Part B - Applied Biomaterials” and review editor of “Frontiers”.  

Research Interest

Simone Tassani is a member of the European Society of Biomechanics and is interested in the development and application of image processing technique for the analysis of bone mechanical behaviour. He is now Freelance researcher and it is participating in writing several scientific paper and European projects.