The European Society of Biomechanics

Dominique Pioletti

Membership Committee

Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics
Institute of Bioengineering
EPFL, Lausanne

Switzerland

Dominique Pioletti received his Master in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (known as 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 in gene expression of bone cells in contact to orthopedic implant. In 2000, Dominique Pioletti headed the Bone Bioengineering Group at the Laboratory for Orthopedic Research at the EPFL. His research topics include 1) the understanding of mechano-transduction in bone; 2) the development of orthopedic implant as drug delivery system; 3) the tissue engineering of intervertebral disc; 4) the tissue engineering of bone. In April 2006, Dominique Pioletti was appointed tenure-track Assistant Professor at the EPFL and is currently director of the Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics.