Dr. Simona Celi is the director of the Bioiengineering Unit at Fondazioen Toscana G. Monasterio. She co-founded the BioCardioLab in 2008 and she is the group leader of this research lab. She received her PhD degree from the University of Pisa. Her main research topics are the correlation between in vivo and ex vivo data, the development of an in silico approach through advanced image processing, experimental activities, and finite element simulation with uncertainties quantification and sensitivities analysis.