Gruppo BioMeccanica AIMETA - GBMA

Steering Commitee
Giuseppe Vairo (chairman) - Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Marco Donato de Tullio - Politecnico di Bari
Alberto Salvadori - Università degli Studi di Brescia

Council Board
Alessio Gizzi - Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
Emanuela Jacchetti - Politecnico di Milano
Alessandro Nitti (secretary) - Politecnico di Bari
Nicola Sancisi - Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna

Aims and scope

The GBMA group, founded by the late Professor Roberto Contro of the Politecnico di Milano, comprises researchers and scientists dedicated to the field of Biomechanics. GBMA seeks to encourage, promote, and advance research and dissemination activities related to the science of biomechanics. Additionally, it strives to foster cooperation and interaction with other associations and organizations, both within the biomechanics domain and in related interdisciplinary sectors, reflecting the inherently cross-disciplinary nature of the field.

Within the framework of AIMETA's initiatives, GBMA actively supports the transfer of knowledge from theoretical and applied Mechanics to clinical applications, biomedicine, and bioengineering, thereby bridging the gap between methodological research and practical applications.

Upcoming events

• GBMA Meeting
  within the 1st HICOMP Conference (1st Hellenic-Italian Conference on Computational Mechanics, Biomechanics and Mechanics of Materials) - Rodhes Island, Greece - June 19-21, 2025.
  The event is organized jointly by the Greek Association of Computational Mechanics (GRACM) and by three Italian AIMETA Groups: AIMETA Group of Biomechanics (GBMA), Italian Group of Computational Mechanics (GIMC) and AIMETA Mechanics of Materials Group (GMA) under the auspices of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

• Final step of the GBMA Award 2025 (to be announced)
  within the GIMC-GMA-GBMA Best PhD Theses Competition 2025 (March 2025), a joint online event by GBMA, GIMC, and GMA, during which the winners of the PhD Thesis Awards for the three groups will be selected from the finalists presenting their thesis work.

Dissemination activities

• Joint Conference of the AIMETA Groups GIMC, GMA and GBMA, GIMC-GMA-GBMA 2023 (Reggio Calabria)
• Giovani alla Ricerca - GBMA, GIMC e GMA si incontrano on-line (June 2021)
• Sino-Italian Workshop on Biomechanics - BIOMECH 19 (Roma, July 2019)

• GBMA minisymposium "Theoretical and Applied Biomechanics" within AIMETA 2024 (Napoli)
• GBMA minisymposium "Theoretical and Applied Biomechanics" within AIMETA 2022 (Palermo)
• GBMA minisymposium "Theoretical and Applied Biomechanics" within AIMETA 2019 (Roma)
• Minisymposium "Biomeccanica teorica e applicata per problemi cardiovascolari" – AIMETA 2017 (Salerno)
• Minisymposium "Progressi in biomeccanica: dalla ricerca di base alle applicazioni" – AIMETA 2015 (Bologna)

• Special Issue of "Acta Mechanica Sinica" (Springer), volume 37, issue 2, 2021 - Biomechanics in “Sino‑Italian Joint”
• Special Issue of "Meccanica" (Springer), volume 52, issue 3, 2017 - Advances in biomechanics: from foundations to applications