Numerical Methods and Advanced Simulation in Biomechanics and Biological Processes

International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. Email: mcerrolaza@cimne.upc.edu M. Cerrolaza is Civil Engineer from the Central University of Venezuela. Currently he is Full Research Professor at the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (BarcelonaTech) and Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Founder and first director of the National Institute of Bioengineering (Venezuela). He coordinated/collaborated in RTD projects supported by the European Commission, the National Science Foundation and Spanish government. He has delivered many invited/plenary conferences and seminars and has taught courses in Finite Elements, Elasticity, Biomechanics and Continuum Mechanics. His research areas are computational biomechanics, numerical methods, bone remodeling, boundary elements Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Department of BioengineeringNortheastern University, Boston, USA. Email: s.shefelbine@neu.edu Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Department of Bioengineering at Northeastern University. She was a National Science Foundation International Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Orthopedic Biomechanics and completed further post-doctoral research in the Department of Radiology (University of California in San Francisco). She has received several teaching awards for her undergraduate and graduate teaching: Imperial College London Rector's Medal of Excellence in Teaching, Royal Academy of Engineering Exxon Mobil Teaching, Faculty of Engineering Outstanding Teaching. Her research areas are multi-scale bone biomechanics and mechano-adaptation of bone and joints. Department of Mechanics and Mechatronic Eng., National University of Colombia, Bogota, ColombiaEmail: dagarzona@unal.edu.coD. Garzon-Alvarado has an MSc. in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc. in Materials and Manufacturing Processes from the National University of Colombia. Currently he is Full Professor at Department of Mechanics and Mechatronic Engineering of the National University of Colombia. He was Visiting Professor at Northeastern University. He coordinated/collaborated in RTD projects funded by the Colombian Ministry of Science (COLCIENCIAS). He has taught courses in Dynamic Systems in Biology, Biomechanics, Continuum Mechanics, Finite Elements. He has also delivered several invited/plenary conferences and seminars. Research areas: morphogenesis and endochondral ossification, computational biomechanics, boundary and finite elements