Dr. Lorenzo Santoro has been a Research Fellow at the Dipartimento di Meccanica, Matematica e Management, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy since 2022. He received a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Bari Dipartimento di Meccanica Matematica e Management. He completed his Ph.D. studies in Mechanical and Management Engineering at the Politecnico di Bari in 2022. His research interests are cellular adhesion phenomena; mechanobiology; mechanotransduction; finite element modeling; porous structures mechanical behavior; additive manufacturing; soft matter mechanical characterization; nanoscale mechanical characterization; atomic force microscopy; visco-hyperelasticity; plasticity; inverse analysis; metaheuristic algorithms; and structural optimization.