I graduated in 2001 from ESPCI-ParisTech, a french "grande ecole", providing a master-level multidisciplinary training with a major in physics.
For my PhD I studied neurovascular coupling with 2-photon microscopy imaging and became a Doctor in Philosophy from Sorbonne University (Paris 6) in 2005.
Then I worked as a post-doc research fellow, mainly in University College London, and I performed research and development both in microscopy and in neuroscience.

Gaetano is Chair of Bioengineering at UCL (UK) and Group Leader of Bioengineering at Ri.MED Foundation (Italy).  He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Palermo (Italy) and completed his PhD in biomechanics on a joint project between the same university and the University of Sheffield (UK), where he was then appointed Research Associate.  Subsequently, he joined SorinGroup (now Corcym) as Research Manager, before taking his position at UCL.

Professor Bulters is a consultant neurosurgeon specialising in vascular conditions. His group’s main themes are risk prediction for unruptured intracranial aneurysms and reducing brain injury from haemoglobin after subarachnoid haemorrhage.
He is past president of the British Neurovascular Group, has held grants from the NIHR, EPSRC, Innovate UK, MRC, European Union, RCS and several medical charities and has been chief and principal investigator for many randomised trials of new drugs, cell therapies and surgical techniques. 

I got my Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2018. I’m currently a PhD candidate in Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano, under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Migliavacca, and I will defend my thesis in early 2023. The topic of my research is the development of computational models of the treatments for stroke, from high-fidelity finite-elements models, to reduced order models. Part of my research was carried out within the EU Horizon2020 project INSIST (IN Silico trials for treatment of acute Ischemic STroke).

Dr Marzo is an Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Biomechanics at the University of Sheffield, UK. 
His research expertise is firmly rooted in Engineering and Mathematics in the context of 
computational biomechanics, with a PhD on the mechanics of flow through elastic vessels from the 
University of Sheffield, a David Crighton Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, and 
participation in several EU/UK projects, focusing on cardiovascular flow characterisation and 

Ayache Bouakaz obtained his DEA degree (MSc) and his PhD in acoustics in 1992 and 1996 at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon, France (INSA Lyon). In 1998, he joined Pennsylvania State University at State College, PA, USA as a post-doc for 2 years. From December 1999 to November 2004, he held a position of associate professor at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His research focused on ultrasound imaging, ultrasound contrast agents and transducer design.