Biography

Saverio Affatato is a Medical Physicist at the IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli (IOR) in Bologna. In this moment he is the Head of the "Wear characterization of joint prostheses Research Unit" of the Medical Technology Laboratory at Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute (www.ior.it/tecno).
He developed new protocols for wear evaluation on hip and knee joint Simulator and also particle debris characterization. He was the Scientific and Technical Responsible of some National and European project (REPO 2000, Eureka 294, Bioker, Nanoker, Tempus, etc.) where the focus of these researches was on the caracterization of biomaterial for orthopedics applications and their evaluation from a tribological point of view.
Affatato has been actively conducting and publishing research on applying new methodologies to measure the wear from in vitro and in vivo specimens. He has been published more than 140 articles with high Impact Factor on international journals covering tribolgical aspects such us particle debris characterization, alumina-toughness-zirconia, metal-on-metal wear behaviour, unicompartimental and bicompartimental knee prostheses, etc. Moreover, he has been published four Books on hip and knee characterization and relative methods of measurments.
Nowadays is the referee of some international and prestigious Journals such us Clinical biomechanics, Acta Biomaterialia, Biomaterials, Proc. IMechE Part H: J. Engineering in Medicine, etc. and he is the taking part to the Editorial Advisory Board of some journals: Hindawi (Elsevier)-J Health Care Engineering, Lubricants-, Materials.
Currently, Saverio Affatato has two qualifications as Associate Professor at the UNIVERSITY in BIOINGEGNERIA and SCIENZE DELLE PROFESSIONI SANITARIE E DELLE TECNOLOGIE MEDICHE APPLICATE.