Nicoletta INVERARDI profile

Dr. Nicoletta Inverardi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Harris Orthopaedics Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Under the mentorship of Prof. Ebru Oral and Prof. Orhun Muratoglu, her current research explores the preparation, characterization and clinical translation of high-performance therapeutic biomaterials for orthopeadic implants. Prior to this, Nicoletta obtained her PhD in the Materials Science and Technology Laboratory at the University of Brescia, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Pandini. During her PhD, she spent 15 months as a visiting student in the Langer Lab and Traverso Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Between Brescia and MIT, her research focused on stimulus responsive materials for drug delivery. Her PhD thesis was awarded the Julia Polak European Doctorate Award by the European Society for Biomaterials and one of the Best Italian PhD theses in Bioengineering by the Italian National Bioengineering Group. Before her PhD, Nicoletta received her B.S and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering of Materials, both full marks cum laude from the University of Brescia.

Nicoletta's expertise lies at the intersection of materials science and biomedical engineering. Recent work regards the development of stimulus responsive materials and drug delivery platforms with engineered mechanical and functional properties. Her research is grounded in a materials science background with focus on the process-structure-property relationships. Relevant skills regard the processing of polymeric biomaterials by molding and additive manufacturing, and their characterization by thermal (e.g., DSC, TGA), thermo-mechanical (e.g., DMTA), physico-chemical characterization and spectroscopy (e.g., FTIR, NMR), mechanical and tribological testing, morphological analysis (optical microscopy and SEM), drug elution studies.

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