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Tenure Track Assistant Professor STI STI-SGM SGM-ENS

Dominique Pioletti web site: http://lbo.epfl.ch office(s): AI1137 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 38341,30743 MISSION The Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics (LBO) is dedicated to the advancement of techniques and technology for patient care in the musculo-skeletal system, through fundamental research, applied research, and teaching BIOGRAPHY Dominique Pioletti received his Master in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in 1992. He pursued his education in the same Institution and obtained his PhD in biomechanics in 1997. He developed original constitutive laws taking into account viscoelasticity in large deformations. Then he spent two years at UCSD as post-doc fellow acquiring know-how in cell and molecular biology. He was interested in particular to gene expression of bone cells in contact to orthopedic implant. Since April 2006, Dominique Pioletti is appointed Assistant Professor tenure-track at the EPFL and is director of the Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics. His research topics include biomechanics and tissue engineering of musculo-skeletal tissues; mechano-transduction in bone; development of orthopedic implant as drug delivery system . MAIN PUBLICATIONS A. Roshan Ghias, F. Lambers, M. Gholam-Rezaee, R. Müller, and D. Pioletti. In vivo loading increases mechanical properties of scaffold by affecting bone formation and bone resorption rates. Bone, 49:1357-1364, 2011. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ] A. Roshan Ghias, A. Vogel, L. Rakotomanana, and D. P. Pioletti. Prediction of spatio-temporal bone formation in scaffold by diffusion equation. Biomaterials, 32:7006-7012, 2011. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ] D. P. Pioletti. Biomechanics in bone tissue engineering. Computer Methods In Biomechanics And Biomedical Engineering, 13:837-846, 2010. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ] V. A. Stadelmann, A. Terrier, O. Gauthier, J.-M. Bouler, and D. P. Pioletti. Prediction of bone density around orthopedic implants delivering bisphosphonate. J Biomechanics, 42:1206-1211, 2009. [ DOI | Details | Full Text | Link ] L. D. Blecha, L. Rakotomanana, F. Razafimahery, A. Terrier, and D. P. Pioletti. Targeted mechanical properties for optimal fluid motion inside artificial bone substitutes. Journal of Orthopedic Research, 27:1082-1089, 2009. [ DOI | Details | Full Text | Link ] B. Peter, O. Gauthier, S. Laib, B. Bujoli, J. Guicheux, P. Janvier, G. H. van Lenthe, R. Muller, P. Y. Zambelli, J. M. Bouler, and D. P. Pioletti. Local delivery of bisphosphonate from coated orthopedic implants increases implants mechanical stability in osteoporotic rats. J Biomed Mater Res A, 76(1):133-43, 2006. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ] BIBLIOMETRICS

Skills - Orthopedic Biomechanics - Tissue Engineering - Mechano-Biology Teaching Mechanical Engineering Biomechanics of the musculosquettal system [en] (SMX SMT SSV SGM) Orthopedic Engineering [en] Phd programs Biotechnology and Bioengineering Mechanics (edoc) Phd Students Abdel-Sayed Philippe Darwiche Salim Elias Emami Naeini Sohrab Engelhardt Christoph Anselm Hollenstein Jérôme Kettenberger Ulrike Latypova Adeliya Nassajian Moghadam Mohamadreza Past Phd students: Blecha Luc Gortchacow Miguel Montjovent Marc-Olivier Peter Bastian Quintin Aurélie Roshan Ghias Alireza Stadelmann Vincent Vogel Arne