Dr. Antonio Boccaccio holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering (graduated cum laude) (Politecnico di Bari, Italy, 2002) and a PhD in Bioengineering (Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2006). Since December 2019, he has been an Associate Professor (ING-IND/15 Design Methods for Industrial Engineering) at the Politecnico di Bari. In 2005, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College Dublin. His research interests are optical techniques for reverse engineering, morphological optimization of biomaterials, modeling and simulation of biomedical devices, and mechanobiological processes. He authored more than 100 publications (61 peer-reviewed ISI journal papers) and 1 European patent. He is a member of the Editorial Board of 3 internationally reputed journals and serves as a reviewer for more than 50 ISI journals. In 2012, he was awarded the Fylde Electronics Prize for the best paper published in 2010 in the Strain journal by the British Society for Strain Measurement. He also ranked first (among 40 applicants) in a university competition for post-doctoral fellowships held in the Politecnico di Bari.