Multiscale Mechanics and Multiphysics of Materials Lab

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Mattia Serpelloni

Mattia obtained his bachelor's and Master's degree at the University of Brescia in Civil Engineering in 2013 and 2017, respectively. At the end of 2017, he started his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Brescia. During the doctorate, he focused on studying and modeling the angiogenic stimulus at the cellular level. Specifically, he examined how the mechanical behavior of the endothelial cells affects the dynamics of specific transmembrane proteins (VEGFR2 and integrin) on the cell membrane of these types of cells. Moreover, from January to March 2020 he was abroad at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Vikram Deshpande where he studied the competition between haptotaxis and durotaxis on further kinds of cells called a fibroblast. Such an experience, prematurely interrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic, has been financed by means of a scholarship provided by the Guido Berlucchi Foundation (Young Researchers Mobility Programme) wons in June of 2019. At the beginning of 2021, he achieved a fellowship on the project "Mechano-biology of cell motility during tumor metastasis". He is currently a postdoctoral researcher of the University of Brescia, on the project "Effect of R1032Q substitution on biological activity and membrane dynamics of VEGFR2".

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