Davide Ruffoni is an Associate Professor at the University of Liege in Belgium, where he established the Mechanics of Biological and Bioinspired Materials Laboratory in 2013. He studied Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in Italy. He obtained a Marie Curie Fellowship to carry out his PhD on bone material and architecture at the Biomaterials Department of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany. He then moved to ETH in Switzerland for a postdoc, where he received two fellowships from the European Calcified Tissue Society and from the International Osteoporosis Foundation for working on bone remodeling around implants. His current research focuses on mechanical and mechanobiological aspects of bone and of interfaces connecting highly dissimilar tissues, such as the bone-tendon and the bone-cartilage junctions. These clinically relevant locations are explored using a multimodal approach and serve as inspiration for developing biomimetic materials with 3D printing.
Key words
Bone mechanics and mechanobiology, bone-soft tissue attachment, tissue anisotropy and functional porosity, multimaterial 3D printing