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Pasquale Ciarletta, PhD, MScME

Tel.: +33-(0)1-44-32-3506
Email: pasquale.ciarletta@lps.ens.fr
 

Research interests

  • Tumour modeling and simulation
  • Multiscale soft tissue biomechanics
  • Finite viscoelasticity
  • Growth and morphogenesis in living tissues
  • Tissue aging and remodeling
  • Experimental determination and modeling of residual stresses in biological tissues
  • FEM simulations in medical robotics

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Brief CV

  • Marie Curie IEF Grant, 2007-2009, LPS, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

  • Post-doc, 2006-2007, CRIM Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

  • Fulbright Visitor Scholar, 2004-2005, Surgical Skill Center, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

  • PhD in Bioengineering (Magna cum Laude), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
    Thesis:" Multiscale analysis of soft tissue biomechanics for applications in medical robotics"
    Prize "Paolo Durst" of Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria (GNB)

Selected Publications

  • "Continuum model of epithelial morphogenesis during C. elegans embryonic elongation"
    P. Ciarletta, M. Ben Amar et M. Labouesse
    Philosophical Transactions the Royal Society A, in press, 2009 .

  • "A finite dissipative theory of temporary interfibrillar bridges in the extra-cellular matrix of ligaments and tendons"
    Ciarletta P., Ben Amar M.
    Journal of the Royal Society Interface, in press, 2009 .

  • "Morphogenesis of thin hyperelastic plates : a constitutive theory of biological growth in the Foppl-von Karman limit"
    Dervaux J., Ciarletta P., Ben Amar M.
    Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 57 (2009) 458.

  • "Hyperelastic model of anisotropic fiber reinforcements within intestinal walls for applications in medical robotics"
    Ciarletta P., Tendick F., Micera S., Dario P.,
    International Journal of Robotics Research, Special Issue : Medical Robotics (Eds : Desai, J. and Ayache, N.), in press, 2009.

  • "Pseudo-hyperelastic model of tendon hysteresis from adaptive recruitment of collagen type I fibrils"
    Ciarletta P., Micera S., Dario P.,
    Biomaterials, 29(6): 764-770, 2008 .

  • "A novel microstructural approach in tendon viscoelastic modelling at the fibrillar level"
    Ciarletta P., Micera S., Accoto D., Dario P.,
    Journal of Biomechanics 39(11), 2034-2042, 2006.

  • "Modelling and experimental validation of the locomotion of endoscopic robots in the colon"
    Dario P., Ciarletta P., Menciassi A., Kim B.,
    International Journal of Robotics Research, 23 (4-5), pp. 549-556, 2004
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  • Experimental Robotics VIII
    B. Siciliano and P. Dario (Eds.),
    Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany , STAR 5, pp. 445-45", 2003
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  --   last update: May 28 2009