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Vittorio Cristini, Ph.D, FAAN
Adjoint Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Background
Vittorio Cristini (associate professor of Health Information Sciences,
Biomedical Engineering, and Systems
Biology, at the University
of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, at the University
of Texas, Austin, and at the MD
Anderson Cancer Center) was formerly on the faculty in Biomedical
Engineering and Applied Mathematics
at the University
of California, Irvine (2002-2006) and in Applied Mathematics and
Chemical Engineering at the University
of Minnesota (2000-2002). He earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering
(2000) from Yale
University and a Laurea Summa cum Laude in Nuclear Engineering
(1994) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy;
he is also a Fellow of the American
Academy of Nanomedicine. Dr. Cristini is an expert in the fields of
complex fluids, microfluidics, complex (bio)materials, mathematical/computational
modeling of cancer and nanomathematics, where he has organized numerous
domestic and international conferences and has published 4 book chapters
and 50 articles in journals that include the Journal of Fluid Mechanics,
Physics of Fluids, the Journal of Crystal Growth, the Journal of Rheology,
the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Lab on a Chip, Physical
Review Letters, the Journal of Computational Physics, the Journal
of Mathematical Biology, the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, the
Journal of Theoretical Biology, Tissue Engineering, Biomedical Microdevices,
Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Expert Review of Anticancer
Therapy, NeuroImage. Dr. Cristini is also an editor for four journals
in the fields of bioengineering and nanotechnology and a guest editor
for NeuroImage.
For important theoretical and computational studies
of droplet breakup in laminar and
turbulent flows, Dr. Cristini received the prestigious "Andreas Acrivos
Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics" (American Physical Society, 2000).
His breakthrough paper "Nonlinear simulation of tumor necrosis, neovascularization
and tissue invasion via an adaptive finite-element/level-set method" (Bulletin
of Mathematical Biology, 2005) is a New Hot Paper in the field of Mathematics
(source: Thomson-Scientific Essential Science Indicators 2006), where it is in
the top 0.1 percentile of citations. His article "An integrated computational/experimental
model of tumor invasion" (Cancer Research, 2006) was selected to appear
in the Cancer Research Highlights, Feb 1 2006: "Simulation model predicts
tumor invasion in marginal environmental conditions."
Dr. Cristini has graduated 3 PhD
students in biomedical engineering and applied mathematics, and
several master and BS students. Four of his students have received
honors and awards for their theses.
Dr. Cristini's research has been supported by the National Science
Foundation, the National Cancer Institute, the Department of Defense,
the State of California, the State of Texas, Orqis Medical, Dekk-Tec,
and Merck.
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