Biographical Sketch

Michele Terzano was born on November 11, 1986, in Parma, Italy. After graduation from high school, he completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s studies in Civil Engineering at the University of Parma, Italy, with a specialization in structural mechanics. Michele received his PhD in Civil Engineering in March 2020. His thesis, on the topic of cutting in biomaterials, contains models and computational analyses which are relevant both to the fields of solid mechanics and bioengineering. During his doctoral studies, he addressed various topics in the field of nonlinear computational mechanics, including interface models of fracture in brittle materials and limit analysis of contacts subjected to cyclic loading. He also spent six months at Imperial College of London, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he collaborated to an EU-funded project on robotics in neurosurgery. In this time, he began specializing on the mechanics of soft materials, including polymers, biological tissues and hydrogels, with specific emphasis on the topic of damage and fracture. In 2020, he received a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Parma, in the Department of Engineering and Architecture for computational fracture mechanics. Since May 2021 he has been continuing his research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Biomechanics in Graz, where he is involved in the EU-funded project “In Silico Testing and Validation of Cardiovascular Implantable Devices (SIMCOR)” as part of the Horizon 2020 Framework Program.