RegMedNet Rising Star Award: an interview with the 2023 winner
We recently sat down with Tommaso Ristori, the winner of the 2023 Rising Star Award. He discussed how his research, which is grounded in a mathematical approach to biomedical questions, has unfolded. He also talked about the challenges of an interdisciplinary approach, gave advice for scientists contemplating switching fields and covered what research direction he intends to embark on next.
Meet the speaker
Tommaso Ristori completed an MSc in Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering, jointly awarded by the University of Florence (Italy) and the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain); he then completed a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e; The Netherlands) with his thesis focusing on computational analysis of cell-mediated collagen remodeling. His postdoctoral research brought him to the University of Boston’s Center for Multiscale & Translational Mechanobiology (MA, USA) to investigate angiogenesis. As of 2021, he has been an assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at TU/e where he continues to work on angiogenesis as well as devising methods to induce physiological vascularization in diseased and engineered tissues for regenerative medicine applications.