Marco Rasponi has a Master degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (2002) and has obtained a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2006 on design of MEMS device aimed at the biomedical use. Since May 2006, he has a post-doc position at the Department of Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano. He exerts teaching activities for the course Cell Bioengineering and Bionanotechnologies at the Politecnico di Torino. He is author of 2 peer reviewed international papers in the field of biomechanics and microfluidics.