Pr Corrado PICONI

Professor Piconi was in the New Materials Division of the Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment (ENEA) until 2000 and has been performing research on ceramic biomaterials since 1998. In 2000 he was appointed as R&D Project Manager in Tecnobiomedica S.p.A working on the development of medical devices for orthopedic and cardiovascular applications. From 2005 to 2014 he was Scientific Director of the MeLab R&D facility of GHIMAS S.p.A. (Brindisi, Italy), working on ceramic and polymeric scaffolds for bone tissue engineering.                                                      Professor Piconi has been a Lecturer in the School of Orthopedics, Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University in Rome, where he currently teaching in Applied Physics. He is Fellow in the Centre for New Materials for Prosthetic Technologies, in the University of Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy, and associate member of the Institute for the Science and Technology of Ceramic Materials of the Italian National Research Council (ISTEC-CNR), Faenza, Italy. Prof. Piconi is member of the Board of International Academy of Ceramic Implantology (IAOCI), active member of the Italian Society for Biomaterials (SIB), of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB), of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine (ISCM), of the Italian Society for Research in Orthopedics (IORS). He is referee for international scientific journals in the field of biomaterials. He is author of more than 100 articles and book chapters with more than 2000 citations by December 2016.