Dominique Pioletti is currently a full professor at the School of Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. He received his Master’s in Physics at EPFL in 1992. He pursued his education in the same institution and obtained his PhD in biomechanics in 1997. He developed original constitutive laws for soft tissues taking into account viscoelasticity in large deformation situations. Then he spent two years at UCSD as a post-doc fellow and was interested in particular in understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms leading to peri-implant osteolysis. He developed at that time the pioneering idea to use orthopedic implants as a drug delivery system and has since proposed different solutions relevant to clinical applications. In April 2006, he was appointed assistant professor tenure-track at the EPFL and is the director of the Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics. His research topics include biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system, mechanobiology in bone and cartilage, drug delivery systems for bone and cartilage, and functional tissue engineering.