Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria Ph.D. Programme in Bioengineering Ph.D. Final Exams – 3rd Session 2014 24th October 2014 Where Committee BSP Aula Alario, 4th floor, Bld 21 Leonardo Campus Coordinator Prof. Andrea Aliverti andrea.aliverti@polimi.it Secretary Mara Franca Pedercini DEIB Politecnico di Milano – Campus Leonardo Phone: 02.2399.3354 Fax: 02.2399.3397 mara.pedercini@polimi.it Schedule of the Day Committee Members 9.00-9.30 Committee Meeting Alberto Figueroa Senior Lecturer 9.30-10.30 Dept of Biomedical Engineering, King’s College, London, United Kingdom First Ph.D. presentation and discussion Dr. Alessia BARETTA – XXVI Cycle “Patient-specific modeling of the cardiovascular system for surgical planning of single-ventricle defects” Supervisor: Proff. Gabriele Dubini, Giancarlo Pennati 10.30-11.30 Second Ph.D. presentation and discussion Dr. Mohamad SHAHGHOLI GHAHFAROKHI – XXVI Cycle “Experimental and numerical characterization of native bone tissue and glass ceramic bone scaffold at small scale” Supervisor: Prof. Pasquale Vena 11.30-12.30 Third Ph.D. presentation and discussion Dr. Caterina Turrisi – XXVI Cycle “Industrialization and pre-clinical testing of an oscillating perfusion bioreactor (OPB) for tissue engineering strategies” Supervisors: Proff. Stefania Riboldi, Chiara Arrigoni 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Final Committee Meeting 14.30 Proclamation Enrico Dall’Ara PostDoctoral Fellow Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and INSIGNEO Inst. For in silico Medicine, Sheffield, United Kingdom Frederico Castelo Alves Ferreira Principal Research Scientist Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Lisboa, Portugal Gabriele Dubini Full Professor Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica “G. Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy