Alberto Mantegazza is a biomedical engineer specializing in microfluidics, hemodynamics, and Organ-on-Chip technologies. He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and joined the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering as a postdoctoral fellow in 2024. Since January 2026, he is a Research Fellow (RTD-a) at the MiMic Lab, where he develops mechanically active Organ-on-Chip platforms.
He completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bern with a thesis focused on red blood cell partitioning in artificial microvascular networks. He then moved to Penn State University to work on computational models of red blood cell damage in medical devices.
Before joining MiMic Lab, he conducted research at Politecnico di Bari, developing advanced fluid–structure interaction models—combining Lattice–Boltzmann and Finite-Element methods—to study the behavior of red blood cells and deformable capsules in microfluidic systems, with applications in cell sorting. His work sits at the intersection of microfluidic engineering, Organs-on-Chip, microscale hemodynamics, and both experimental and computational fluid dynamics.