After a Bachelor degree (2004) and a Master of Science (2007) in Biomedical Engineering, and a Ph.D. (2010) in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at the University of Pavia, since 2019 Michele Conti is Associate Professor of Industrial Bioengineering at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) of the University of Pavia.
He is recipient of a research grant by LivaNova Donations & Grants (2018), and winner of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Research Grant (2016). He received the E. Kieffer Prize in 2014. From 2013 to 2015 he served as President of Italian Chapter of European Society of Biomechanics (ESB-ITA).
Major research interests are the numerical simulation of minimally-invasive cardiovascular devices, the development of informatics tools for medical imaging analysis, experimental set-up for in-vitro tests of endovascular devices, isogeometric analysis for biomechanics, and 3D printing/additive manufacturing for biomedical applications.
He has 89 publications on peer-reviewed international journals, and 5 book chapters. H-index of 15 on Scopus, over 780 citations on Scopus.