Chercheurs

Technologie / CARRIERO, ALESSANDRA

a.carriero

Position

Research Associate, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK.

Thèmes de recherche

Alessandra's research interests include:
Multiscale mechanics of bone
Bone fracture
Bone adaptation to mechanical loads
Computational modelling of bone growth
Imaging analysis of bone structure

Alessandra received her master degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2005 from the Politecnico di Milano. For her final year dissertation, she conducted experimental tests on shoulder prosthesis under the supervision of Professor Patrick Prendergast at the Centre for Bioengineering of Trinity College Dublin. In this lab, she was then appointed research assistant for 6 months, conducting computational research on shoulder prosthesis. In October 2005, she joined Imperial College London for a PhD in musculoskeletal biomechanics which Alessandra was awarded in 2009. During her doctoral studies, Alessandra worked under the supervision of Dr Sandra Shefelbine and investigated the relationship between gait abnormalities and bone deformities in children with cerebral palsy, using gait analysis, inverse dynamics and finite element modeling.

Since then Alessandra has been working as a Research Associate at Imperial College, focusing her research on the multiscale mechanics of bone and on the mechanobiology of bone. In summer 2009, she was a visiting scientist at ETH Zurich, and in collaboration with Professor Ralph Muller, she investigated the ultra-structure of osteogenesis imperfecta bone using synchrotron radiation tomography. In 2010 she was awarded the prestigious Global research award from the Royal Academy of Engineering and she went to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Professor Robert Ritchie and investigated the fracture mechanics of osteogenesis imperfecta bone.

Prix et récompenses

Sir George Macfarlane Award, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, 2012

Travel Award, European Society of Biomechanics, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012

Young Investigator Award - Finalist, International Society of Biomechanics, Brussels, Belgium, 2011

Clinical Biomechanics Award - Finalist, International Society of Biomechanics, Brussels, Belgium, 2011

Global Research Award, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, 2010

IDEA League Grant, Imperial College London, UK, 2009

International Travel Award, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, 2009

Research Fellowship, Cerebra Research Foundation, UK, 2006

Post-Graduate Fellowship, Imperial College London, UK, 2005-08

Post-Graduate International Research Award, University of Bologna, Italy, 2005

International Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2003-04

Undergraduate Scholarship, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 1998-2004

Publications

Carriero A, Zavatsky A, Stebbins J, et al, Influence of altered gait patterns on the hip joint contact forces., Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin, 2012

Carriero A, Jonkers I, Shefelbine SJ, Mechanobiological prediction of proximal femoral deformities in children with cerebral palsy., Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin, 2011, Vol:14, Pages:253-262

Carriero A, Zavatsky A, Stebbins J, et al, Determination of gait patterns in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy using principal components., Gait Posture, 2009, Vol:29, Pages:71-75, ISSN:0966-6362

Carriero A, Zavatsky A, Stebbins J, et al, Correlation between lower limb bone morphology and gait characteristics in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy., J Pediatr Orthop, 2009, Vol:29, Pages:73-79