Edoardo Archives - Biomechanics Research Unit

Several group members presented at VPH 2026 in Milan

The 9th International conference on the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) took place in Milan, Italy, from 1 to 4 September 2026 . As usual, our group was well represented, with several members presenting their work: Amin Asadi: “Knee osteoarthritis multiscale modeling: insight toward population level” (poster & selected flash talk) Edoardo Borgiani: “Finite element model of[...]

Our group presented at the ORS ISFR 2026

Edoardo Borgiani, Gabriele Nasello, Liesbeth Ory, Sophie Nguyen, and Tom Verbraeken presented their work at the ORS International Section of Fracture Repair (ISFR) 19th Biennial Meeting, held on 6-8 May 2026 in Berlin, Germany. The congress brought together a global community of clinicians, researchers, engineers, and industry partners on innovation in the field of fracture[...]

Our group participated in the 2024 MECH Research Day of KU Leuven

The second edition of the MECH Research Day of KU Leuven took place last Friday, 31st May 2024. During this event, researchers from the Mechanical Engineering department showcased their work through posters and lab visits. Our team contributed with a group poster, in which the projects of Satanik, Edoardo, Laura, Sophie N., Pieter, Fernando and Oriana connect[...]

ESBiomech2023: Lies, Claire, Fernando, Satanik, Laura and Edoardo will present

Next week, the 28th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB 2023) will take place in Maastricht, The Netherlands from 9 to 12 July 2023. Liesbet Geris is one of the four congress chairs; therefore, our group is among the organizers this time. Some team members will present their research: Claire Villette: “Osteoinductive scaffold[...]

Edoardo will present his work at the 7th ECCOMAS YIC 2023

Edoardo Borgiani will present his work “Experimental calibration of an in silico mechano-biological model of bone healing inflammatory response with the support of genetic algorithm” at the upcoming 7th ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference (YIC) 2023, which will take place in Porto (Portugal) on 19-21 June 2023. He has been selected to give an oral presentation.

Laura and Tim will present at the byteMAL conference 2023

Laura Lafuente-Gracia and Tim Herpelinck will present their work at the byteMAL conference 2023, which takes place in Aachen, Germany on 23 May 2023. Laura will present her poster “Modelling bone regeneration in craniofacial bone defects”, and has also been selected to give a flash talk. In his poster, Tim will present his work about the[...]

Laura, Pieter and Edoardo will attend a BIRS workshop about “Sex Differences in Physiology”

Laura Lafuente, Pieter Ansoms and Edoardo Borgiani will attend the workshop “Sex Differences in Physiology: Mathematical Modelling and Analysis” organized by the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery. The workshop takes places from 5 to 10 March 2023 in Banff (Alberta, Canada). More info about the workshop can be found here.[...]

Our group participated in the KU Leuven University trail 2022 that took place last Thursday 15 September – and it was very fun! The university trail is a sport event by KU Leuven in which staff members gather together in teams to walk or run. This time, the most popular category within our team members was[...]

Edoardo Borgiani, Laura Lafuente-Gracia, Satanik Mukherjee and Fernando Pérez-Boerema will present their research at the 9th World Congress of Biomechanics. Liesbet Geris is one of the plenary speakers of the conference. The conference will take place from 11 to 14 July in Taipei, Taiwan and also online (https://www.wcb2022.com/). Due to the COVID-19 measures, our team will[...]

On Tuesday 31 May 2022, the first edition of the MECH Research Day of KU Leuven took place, in which researchers of the department of Mechanical engineering showed their research through posters and demos. And our group was present too, of course! We contributed with several participations: Lies gave one of the four lectures. Her talk[...]

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