Professor Marco Viceconti

Professor of Biomechanics

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
UK

Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 7788
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 7890

Profile

Marco Viceconti is full Professor of Biomechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield and Professor Associate at the Department of Human Metabolism. He is currently serving as Scientific Director of the Insigneo Institute of in silico medicine, a joint initiative between the University of Sheffield and the Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Before this he was the Technical Director of the Medical Technology Lab at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna, Italy.

Prof. Viceconti has a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Bologna and a PhD from the University of Firenze. He started his research career under the guidance of Prof Alì Seireg, first at the University of Florida-Gainesville, and then at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His main research interests are related to the development and validation of medical technology, especially that involving simulation, and primarily in relation to neuromusculoskeletal diseases. He has published over 200 papers, mostly indexed in Medline, and serves as reviewer for many international funding agencies and peer-reviewed journals.

Marco Viceconti is one of the key figures in the emerging Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) community. Co-author of the first white paper on VPH, scientific co-ordinator of the seminal VPH research roadmap, "VPH ambassador" for the VPH Network of Excellence, Co-ordinator of the VPHOP integrated project, he is also currently chairing the Board of Directors of the VPH Institute.

Other Professional Activities and Achievements

Chartered Engineering with the Italian Professional Order of Engineers
President of the European Society of Biomechanics, 2006-2008
President of European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science, 2010-2013
Executive Director, Virtual Physiological Human Institute for Integrative Biomedical Research

Research Interests

Biomechanics of the neuromusculoskeletal system
Virtual Physiological Human and in silico medicine
Technology for health

Teaching

Although Prof Viceconti is not currently involved in any formal teaching activity, throughout the 2011-12 academic year he will provide a number of seminars for students and researchers.

Current Research Grants

Year	Source	Grant Type	Title	Code
2008-2012	European Commission	ICT eHealth FP7	VPHOP: The Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human	FP7-ICT-2008-223865
2009-2012	European Commission	ICT eHealth FP7	VPH NoE: Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence	FP7-ICT-2008-223920
2010-2012	European Commission	ICT eHealth FP7	NMS Physiome: Tools to Develop the NeuroMusculoSkeletal Physiome	FP7-ICT-2010-248189
2010-2013	European Commission	ICT eHealth FP7	Discipulus: Digitally Integrated Scientific Data for Patients and Populations in User-Specific Simulations	FP7-ICT-2011-288143
2013-2015	NC3Rs	Standard Proposal	Development of Computational models of Bone Formation and Resorption to Predict Changes in Bone in Preclinical Intervention Studies	NC/K000780/1
2013-2018	EPSRC	Frontier	Modelling Complex and Partially Identified Engineering Problems - Application to the Individualised Multi-Scale Simulation of the Musculoskeletal System	EP/K03877X/1

Publications

Full list of publications indexed on Pub Med

Selected Publications

Are spontaneous fractures possible? An example of clinical application for personalised, multiscale neuro-musculo-skeletal modelling,
Viceconti, M, Taddei, F., Cristofolini, L., Martelli, S. Falcinelli, C. & Schileo, E. (2012),
Journal of Biomechanics, 45(3), pp. 421-426.

A tentative taxonomy for predictive models in relation to their falsifiability,
Viceconti, M. (2011),
Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Science, 369(1954), pp. 4149-61.

Effect of sub-optimal neuromotor control on the hip joint load during level walking,
Martelli, S., Taddei, F., Cappello, A., van Sint Jan, S., Leardini, A. & Viceconti, M. (2011),
Journal of Biomechanics, 44(9), pp. 1716-21.

Reduced tissue hardness of trabecular bone is associated with severe osteoarthritis,
Dall'Ara, E., Ohman, C., Baleani, M. & Viceconti, M. (2011),
Journal of Biomechanics, 44(8), pp. 1593-8.

Extensive risk analysis of mechanical failure for an epiphyseal hip prosthesis: A combined numerical-experimental approach,
Martelli, S., Taddei, F., Cristofolini, L., Gill, H. S. & Viceconti, M. (2011),
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 225(2), pp. 126-40.

Multimodal fusion of biomedical data at different temporal and dimensional scales,
Viceconti, M., Clapworthy, G., Testi, D., Taddei, F. & McFarlane, N. (2011),
Computational Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 102(3), pp. 227-37.

Policy needs and options for a common approach towards modelling and simulation of human physiology and diseases with a focus on the Virtual Physiological Human,
Viceconti, M. & McCulloch, A. D. (2011),
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 170, pp. 49-82.

The virtual physiological human: computer simulation for integrative biomedicine I,
Viceconti, M. & Kohl, P. (2010),
Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Science, 268(1920), pp. 2591-4.

Pre-clinical validation of joint prostheses: a systematic approach,
Viceconti, M., Affatato, S., Baleani, M., Bordini, B., Cristofolini, L. & Taddei, F. (2009),
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2(1), pp. 120-7.

Multiscale modelling of the skeleton for the prediction of the risk of fracture,
Viceconti, M., Taddei, F., Van Sint Jan, S., Leardini, A., Cristofolini, L., Stea, S., Baruffaldi, F. & Baleani M. (2008),
Clinical Biomechanics, 23(7), pp. 845-52.

The Virtual Physiological Human - a European initiative for in silico human modelling, Viceconti, M., Clapworthy, G. & Van Sint Jan, S. (2008),
Journal of Physiological Sciences, 58(7), pp. 441-6