
PhD (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), MSc (Dipl. Phys. ETH) (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich))
Dr Pascal Buenzli is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology at the School of Mathematical Sciences at QUT, and a former ARC DECRA Fellow 2013–2017. Academic experience- 2020–: Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT
- 2017–2020: Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT
- 2013–2017: ARC DECRA Fellow
- 2013–2017: Lecturer, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
- 2009–2013: Research Assistant Professor, Engineering Computational Biology Group, The University of Western Australia
- 2007–2008: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Theoretical Physics, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- PhD in Theoretical Physics (with distinction), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
- MSc/Dipl. Phys. ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ)
Additional information
Research Interests
- mathematical biology
- mechanobiology
- biological physics
- complex systems
- stochastic processes
- statistical mechanics and fluctuation-induced phenomena
- Alias M, Buenzli P, (2017) Modeling the effect of curvature on the collective behavior of cells growing new tissue, Biophysical Journal, 112 (1), pp. 193-204.
- Lerebours C, Buenzli P, Scheiner S, Pivonka P, (2016) A multiscale mechanobiological model of bone remodelling predicts site-specific bone loss in the femur during osteoporosis and mechanical disuse, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 15 (1), pp. 43-67.
- Buenzli P, (2016) Governing equations of tissue modelling and remodelling: A unified generalised description of surface and bulk balance, PLoS One, 11 (4), pp. 1-25.
- Lerebours C, Buenzli P, (2016) Towards a cell-based mechanostat theory of bone: the need to account for osteocyte desensitisation and osteocyte replacement, Journal of Biomechanics, 49 (13), pp. 2600-2606.
- Buenzli P, (2015) Osteocytes as a record of bone formation dynamics: A mathematical model of osteocyte generation in bone matrix, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 364, pp. 418-427.
- Buenzli P, Sims N, (2015) Quantifying the osteocyte network in the human skeleton, Bone, 75, pp. 144-150.
- Buenzli P, Pivonka P, Smith D, (2014) Bone refilling in cortical basic multicellular units: insights into tetracycline double labelling from a computational model, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 13 (1), pp. 185-203.
- Buenzli P, Pivonka P, Smith D, (2011) Spatio-temporal structure of cell distribution in cortical Bone Multicellular Units: A mathematical model, Bone, 48 (4), pp. 918-926.
- Buenzli P, Martin P, (2008) Microscopic theory of the Casimir force at thermal equilibrium: Large-separation asymptotics, Physical Review E, 77 (1), pp. 1-15.
- Buenzli P, Soto R, (2008) Violation of the action-reaction principle and self-forces induced by nonequilibrium fluctuations, Physical Review E, 78 (2), pp. 1-4.
- Modelling osteocyte control networks in bone mechanobiology |
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Vivien Challis