Dall'Ara, Enrico, Professor

Professor Enrico Dall'Ara

PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Professor of Musculoskeletal Biomechanics

e.dallara@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6175

C+31, Pam Liversidge Building; DU19, The Medical School

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Professor Enrico Dall'Ara
School of Medicine and Population Health
C+31, Pam Liversidge Building; DU19
The Medical School
Beech Hill Road
Sheffield
S10 2RX

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For enquiries please contact - SMPH-West-Operational@sheffield.ac.uk

I have been Full Professor of Musculoskeletal Biomechanics since 2024.

I hold a PhD from the Vienna University of Biomechanics and a Master in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bologna.

I am the Director of the Skelet.Al laboratories, the Research Director of the Insigneo Computational Modelling in Medicine research theme, and the Deputy Head of the Integrative MusculoSkeletal Biomechanics (IMSB) Research group.

I am the President of the European Society of Biomechanics

I co-lead the Non-Clinical task force of the Avicenna Alliance.

Current PhD Opportunities:

Research interests

My research interests are related to better understanding the properties of musculoskeletal tissues across the space and time scales, by using imaging, experimental and computational methods. In particular, the main goal of my research is to develop and validate subject-specific computational models for the prediction of bone strength, bone remodelling and risk of fracture in healthy subjects and in patients with musculoskeletal diseases, applied to both preclinical and clinical studies.

Research projects:

Validation of Finite Element models for bone at different dimensional levels
Development and validation of multiscale models for predicting bone remodelling over time
Preclinical assessment of osteoarthritis with longitudinal microCT
Development of Finite Element models to study the outcomes of spine fixation
Prediction of fracture risk for patients with vertebral metastases with QCT based computational models
Investigation of the effect of bone metastatic lesions on bone strength
Investigation of the mechanical properties of subchondral bone from OA patients
Optimisation of Digital Volume Correlation techniques for measuring deformation in heterogeneous biomaterials

Publications

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Featured publications

Journal articles

Gibson FG, Paggiosi MA, Handforth C, Brown JE, Li X, Dall'Ara E & Verbruggen SW (2025) . Bone, 195.
Cavazzoni G, Pasini M, Le Maitre CL, Dall'Ara E & Palanca M (2025) . Acta Biomaterialia, 194, 258-269.
Cavazzoni G, Dall’Ara E & Palanca M (2025) . Frontiers in Endocrinology, 15.
Lin Z, Dall’Ara E & Guo L (2024) . PLOS ONE, 19(10).
Farage-O’Reilly SM, Cheong VS, Pickering E, Pivonka P, Bellantuono I, Kadirkamanathan V & Dall’Ara E (2024) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 12.
Roberts BC, Cheong VS, Oliviero S, Arredondo Carrera HM, Wang N, Gartland A & Dall'Ara E (2024) . Journal of Orthopaedic Research.
Palanca M, Cavazzoni G & Dall'Ara E (2023) . Bone, 173, 116814-116814.
Sensale M, Vendeuvre T, Germaneau A, Grivot C, Rochette M & Dall'Ara E (2023) . Medical Image Analysis, 87, 102827-102827.
Henson WH, Mazzá C & Dall’Ara E (2023) . PLoS ONE, 18(3).
Oliviero S, Millard E, Chen Z, Rayson A, Roberts BC, Ismail HMS, Bellantuono I & Dall’Ara E (2023) . Frontiers in Endocrinology, 13.
Oliviero S, Cheong VS, Roberts BC, Orozco Diaz CA, Griffiths W, Bellantuono I & Dall’Ara E (2022) . Frontiers in Endocrinology, 13.
Dall’Ara E, Bodey AJ, Isaksson H & Tozzi G (2022) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 133.
Rayson A, Boudiffa M, Naveed M, Griffin J, Dall’Ara E & Bellantuono I (2022) . Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10.
Palanca M, Oliviero S & Dall’Ara E (2022) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 125.
Palanca M, Barbanti-Bròdano G, Marras D, Marciante M, Serra M, Gasbarrini A, Dall'Ara E & Cristofolini L (2021) . Bone, 151.
Cheong VS, Roberts BC, Kadirkamanathan V & Dall'Ara E (2021) . Acta Biomater.
Musuamba FT, Skottheim Rusten I, Lesage R, Russo G, Bursi R, Emili L, Wangorsch G, Manolis E, Karlsson KE, Kulesza A , Courcelles E et al (2021) . CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology.
Martelli S, Giorgi M, Dall' Ara E & Perilli E (2021) . Acta Biomaterialia, 123, 167-177.
Sensale M, Vendeuvre T, Schilling C, Grupp T, Rochette M & Dall’Ara E (2021) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 9.
Oliviero S, Roberts M, Owen R, Reilly GC, Bellantuono I & Dall’Ara E (2021) . Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.
Ryan M, Barnett L, Rochester J, Wilkinson JM & Dall’Ara E (2020) . Scientific Reports, 10(1).
Oliviero S, Owen R, Reilly GC, Bellantuono I & Dall'Ara E (2020) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials.
Ryan MK, Oliviero S, Costa MC, Wilkinson JM & Dall’Ara E (2020) . Materials, 13(20).
Cheong VS, Roberts BC, Kadirkamanathan V & Dall'Ara E (2020) . Acta Biomaterialia.
Roberts BC, Arredondo Carrera HM, Zanjani-pour S, Boudiffa M, Wang N, Gartland A & Dall’Ara E (2020) . Scientific Reports, 10(1).
Costa MC, Eltes P, Lazary A, Varga PP, Viceconti M & Dall’Ara E (2019) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 98, 268-290.
Roberts BC, Giorgi M, Oliviero S, Wang N, Boudiffa M & Dall'Ara E (2019) . Bone, 127, 260-270.

All publications

Journal articles

Henyš P, Dall’Ara E & Martelli S (2025) . European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, 111, 105539-105539.
Gibson FG, Paggiosi MA, Handforth C, Brown JE, Li X, Dall'Ara E & Verbruggen SW (2025) . Bone, 195.
Cavazzoni G, Pasini M, Le Maitre CL, Dall'Ara E & Palanca M (2025) . Acta Biomaterialia, 194, 258-269.
Cavazzoni G, Dall’Ara E & Palanca M (2025) . Frontiers in Endocrinology, 15.
Cristofolini L, bròdano BB, Dall’Ara E, Ferenc R, Ferguson SJ, García-Aznar JM, Lazary A, Vajkoczy P, Verlaan J-J & Vidacs L (2024) . Orthopaedic Proceedings, 106-B(SUPP_18), 59-59.
Lin Z, Dall’Ara E & Guo L (2024) . PLOS ONE, 19(10).
Soar P, Palanca M, Dall’Ara E & Tozzi G (2024) . Extreme Mechanics Letters, 71, 102202-102202.
Henson WH, Li X, Lin Z, Guo L, Mazzá C & Dall’Ara E (2024) . PLOS ONE, 19(4).
Lin Z, Henson WH, Dowling L, Walsh J, Dall’Ara E & Guo L (2024) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 12.
Farage-O’Reilly SM, Cheong VS, Pickering E, Pivonka P, Bellantuono I, Kadirkamanathan V & Dall’Ara E (2024) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 12.
Roberts BC, Cheong VS, Oliviero S, Arredondo Carrera HM, Wang N, Gartland A & Dall'Ara E (2024) . Journal of Orthopaedic Research.
Miller CJ, Trichilo S, Pickering E, Martelli S, Dall'Ara E, Delisser P, Meakin LB & Pivonka P (2024) . Bone, 180, 116994-116994.
Palanca M, Cavazzoni G & Dall'Ara E (2023) . Bone, 173, 116814-116814.
Sensale M, Vendeuvre T, Germaneau A, Grivot C, Rochette M & Dall'Ara E (2023) . Medical Image Analysis, 87, 102827-102827.
Cavazzoni G, Cristofolini L, Dall’Ara E & Palanca M (2023) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 11.
Henson WH, Mazzá C & Dall’Ara E (2023) . PLoS ONE, 18(3).
Oliviero S, Millard E, Chen Z, Rayson A, Roberts BC, Ismail HMS, Bellantuono I & Dall’Ara E (2023) . Frontiers in Endocrinology, 13.
Stefanek P, Synek A, Dall’Ara E & Pahr DH (2023) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 138.
Karali A, Dall’Ara E, Zekonyte J, Kao AP, Blunn G & Tozzi G (2023) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 138.
Dall’Ara E, Schmidt H, El-Rich M, O’Connell GD & Galbusera F (2022) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 10.
Dall’Ara E & Tozzi G (2022) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 10.
Oliviero S, Cheong VS, Roberts BC, Orozco Diaz CA, Griffiths W, Bellantuono I & Dall’Ara E (2022) . Frontiers in Endocrinology, 13.
Dall’Ara E, Bodey AJ, Isaksson H & Tozzi G (2022) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 133.
Rayson A, Boudiffa M, Naveed M, Griffin J, Dall’Ara E & Bellantuono I (2022) . Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10.
Palanca M, Oliviero S & Dall’Ara E (2022) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 125.
Campanini EH, Baker D, Arundel P, Bishop NJ, Offiah AC, Keigwin S, Cadden S, Dall'Ara E, Nicolaou N, Giles S , Fernandes JA et al (2021) . Bone Reports, 15.
Li Y, Liem Y, Zamli Z, Sullivan N, Dall’Ara E, Ahmed H, Sellers GM, Blom A & Sharif M (2021) . Biomedicines, 9(11).
Palanca M, Barbanti-Bròdano G, Marras D, Marciante M, Serra M, Gasbarrini A, Dall'Ara E & Cristofolini L (2021) . Bone, 151.
Cheong VS, Roberts BC, Kadirkamanathan V & Dall'Ara E (2021) . Acta Biomater.
Cheong VS, Kadirkamanathan V & Dall’Ara E (2021) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 9.
Musuamba FT, Skottheim Rusten I, Lesage R, Russo G, Bursi R, Emili L, Wangorsch G, Manolis E, Karlsson KE, Kulesza A , Courcelles E et al (2021) . CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology.
Palanca M, De Donno G & Dall’Ara E (2021) . PLoS ONE, 16(6).
Li Y, Liem Y, Dall'Ara E, Sullivan N, Ahmed H, Blom A & Sharif M (2021) . Journal of Orthopaedic Research.
Martelli S, Giorgi M, Dall' Ara E & Perilli E (2021) . Acta Biomaterialia, 123, 167-177.
Sensale M, Vendeuvre T, Schilling C, Grupp T, Rochette M & Dall’Ara E (2021) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 9.
Ascolani G, Skerry TM, Lacroix D, Dall'Ara E & Shuaib A (2021) . Interface Focus, 11(1).
Oliviero S, Roberts M, Owen R, Reilly GC, Bellantuono I & Dall’Ara E (2021) . Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.
Palanca M, Dall'Ara E, Gasbarrini A, Barbanti-Bròdano G & Cristofolini L (2021) . Brain and Spine, 1, 100047-100047.
Roberts B, Cheong VS, Oliviero S, Carrera HA, Wang N, Gartland A & Dall'Ara E (2021) Oral Communications & Poster Abstracts. JBMR PLUS, 5.
Ryan M, Barnett L, Rochester J, Wilkinson JM & Dall’Ara E (2020) . Scientific Reports, 10(1).
Oliviero S, Owen R, Reilly GC, Bellantuono I & Dall'Ara E (2020) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials.
Kusins J, Knowles N, Ryan M, Dall'Ara E & Ferreira L (2020) . Journal of Biomechanics.
Ryan MK, Oliviero S, Costa MC, Wilkinson JM & Dall’Ara E (2020) . Materials, 13(20).
Zanjani-Pour S, Giorgi M & Dall'Ara E (2020) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8.
Cheong VS, Roberts BC, Kadirkamanathan V & Dall'Ara E (2020) . Acta Biomaterialia.
Kusins J, Knowles N, Columbus M, Oliviero S, Dall’Ara E, Athwal GS & Ferreira LM (2020) . Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 48(12), 2859-2869.
Roberts BC, Arredondo Carrera HM, Zanjani-pour S, Boudiffa M, Wang N, Gartland A & Dall’Ara E (2020) . Scientific Reports, 10(1).
Cheong VS, Campos Marin A, Lacroix D & Dall'Ara E (2020) . Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology, 19(3), 985-1001.
Costa MC, Campello LBB, Ryan M, Rochester J, Viceconti M & Dall'Ara E (2020) . Bone Reports, 12, 100257-100257.
Ascolani G, Skerry TM, Lacroix D, Dall’Ara E & Shuaib A (2020) . BMC Bioinformatics, 21(1).
Oliviero S, Giorgi M, Laud PJ & Dall’Ara E (2019) . PLoS ONE, 14(11).
Costa MC, Eltes P, Lazary A, Varga PP, Viceconti M & Dall’Ara E (2019) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 98, 268-290.
Roberts BC, Giorgi M, Oliviero S, Wang N, Boudiffa M & Dall'Ara E (2019) . Bone, 127, 260-270.
Kusins J, Knowles N, Ryan M, Dall’Ara E & Ferreira L (2019) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 97, 339-345.
Zhang Y, Dall’Ara E, Viceconti M & Kadirkamanathan V (2019) . PLoS ONE, 14(7).
Knowles NK, Kusins J, Faieghi M, Ryan M, Dall’Ara E & Ferreira LM (2019) . Annals of Biomedical Engineering.
Peña Fernández M, Dall'Ara E, Bodey A, Parwani R, Barber AH, Blunn G & Tozzi G (2019) . ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.
Comini F, Palanca M, Cristofolini L & Dall'Ara E (2019) . J Biomech, 86, 232-237.
Giorgi M, Sotiriou V, Fanchini N, Conigliaro S, Bignardi C, Nowlan NC & Dall'Ara E (2019) . PLoS One, 14(1), e0197947.
Viceconti M & Dall'Ara E (2019) . Mech Ageing Dev, 177, 103-108.
Giorgi M & Dall'Ara E (2018) . Med Eng Phys, 62, 7-16.
Peña Fernández M, Cipiccia S, Dall'Ara E, Bodey AJ, Parwani R, Pani M, Blunn GW, Barber AH & Tozzi G (2018) . J Mech Behav Biomed Mater, 88, 109-119.
Alsayednoor J, Metcalf L, Rochester J, Dall'Ara E, McCloskey E & Lacroix D (2018) . Biomech Model Mechanobiol, 17(6), 1715-1730.
Peña Fernández M, Dall'Ara E, Kao AP, Bodey AJ, Karali A, Blunn GW, Barber AH & Tozzi G (2018) . Materials (Basel), 11(11).
Oliviero S, Giorgi M & Dall'Ara E (2018) . J Mech Behav Biomed Mater, 86, 172-184.
Panyasantisuk J, Dall'Ara E, Pretterklieber M, Pahr DH & Zysset PK (2018) . Med Eng Phys, 59, 36-42.
Yang S, Luo Y, Yang L, Dall'Ara E, Eastell R, Goertzen AL, McCloskey EV, Leslie WD & Lix LM (2018) . Bone, 110, 386-391.
Metcalf LM, Dall'Ara E, Paggiosi MA, Rochester JR, Vilayphiou N, Kemp GJ & McCloskey EV (2018) . Bone, 106, 69-77.
Dall'Ara E, Pena-Fernandez M, Palanca M, Giorgi M, Cristofolini L & Tozzi G (2017) . FRONTIERS IN MATERIALS, 4.
Oliviero S, Lu Y, Viceconti M & Dall'Ara E (2017) . J Biomech, 65, 203-211.
Lu Y, Boudiffa M, Dall'Ara E, Liu Y, Bellantuono I & Viceconti M (2017) . J Mech Behav Biomed Mater, 75, 244-251.
Costa MC, Tozzi G, Cristofolini L, Danesi V, Viceconti M & Dall'Ara E (2017) . PLoS One, 12(7), e0180151.
Palanca M, Bodey AJ, Giorgi M, Viceconti M, Lacroix D, Cristofolini L & Dall'Ara E (2017) . J Biomech, 58, 27-36.
Tozzi G, Dall'Ara E, Palanca M, Curto M, Innocente F & Cristofolini L (2017) . J Mech Behav Biomed Mater, 67, 117-126.
Chen Y, Dall Ara E, Sales E, Manda K, Wallace R, Pankaj P & Viceconti M (2017) . J Mech Behav Biomed Mater, 65, 644-651.
Palanca M, Cristofolini L, Dall'Ara E, Curto M, Innocente F, Danesi V & Tozzi G (2016) . J Biomech, 49(16), 3882-3890.
Dall'Ara E, Eastell R, Viceconti M, Pahr D & Yang L (2016) . J Mech Behav Biomed Mater, 63, 17-25.
Jurkowitsch J, Dall'Ara E, Quadlbauer S, Pezzei C, Jung I, Pahr D & Leixnering M (2016) . Arch Orthop Trauma Surg, 136(11), 1623-1628.
Dall'Ara E, Boudiffa M, Taylor C, Schug D, Fiegle E, Kennerley AJ, Damianou C, Tozer GM, Kiessling F & Müller R (2016) . Mech Ageing Dev, 160, 93-116.
Lu Y, Boudiffa M, Dall'Ara E, Bellantuono I & Viceconti M (2016) . J Biomech, 49(10), 2095-2099.
Maquer G, Lu Y, Dall'Ara E, Chevalier Y, Krause M, Yang L, Eastell R, Lippuner K & Zysset PK (2016) . J Bone Miner Res, 31(2), 341-346.
Dall'Ara E, Grabowski P, Zioupos P & Viceconti M (2015) . J Biomech, 48(15), 4073-4080.
Lu Y, Boudiffa M, Dall'Ara E, Bellantuono I & Viceconti M (2015) . Med Eng Phys, 37(11), 1091-1097.
Palanca M, Tozzi G, Cristofolini L, Viceconti M & Dall'Ara E (2015) . Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 137(7).
Dall'Ara E, Barber D & Viceconti M (2014) . Journal of biomechanics, 47(12), 2956-2963.
Luisier B, Dall'Ara E & Pahr DH (2014) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 32, 287-299.
Larsson D, Luisier B, Kersh ME, Dall'ara E, Zysset PK, Pandy MG & Pahr DH (2014) . Ann Biomed Eng, 42(5), 950-959.
Pahr DH, Schwiedrzik J, Dall'Ara E & Zysset PK (2014) . J Mech Behav Biomed Mater, 33, 76-83.
Dall'Ara E, Karl C, Mazza G, Franzoso G, Vena P, Pretterklieber M, Pahr D & Zysset P (2013) . J Mech Behav Biomed Mater, 25, 23-32.
Zysset PK, Dall'ara E, Varga P & Pahr DH (2013) . Bonekey Rep, 2, 386.
Kainz H, Antoni A, Redl H, Weninger P, Dall'Ara E & Zysset P (2013) . European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, 1-7.
Dall'Ara E, Luisier B, Schmidt R, Pretterklieber M, Kainberger F, Zysset P & Pahr D (2013) . Med Eng Phys, 35(11), 1564-1572.
Dall'Ara E, Luisier B, Schmidt R, Kainberger F, Zysset P & Pahr D (2013) . Bone, 52(1), 27-38.
Maquer G, Dall'Ara E & Zysset PK (2012) . J Biomech, 45(9), 1733-1738.
Dall'Ara E, Schmidt R & Zysset P (2012) . Bone, 50(4), 925-929.
Dall'Ara E, Pahr D, Varga P, Kainberger F & Zysset P (2012) . Osteoporos Int, 23(2), 563-572.
Pahr DH, Dall'Ara E, Varga P & Zysset PK (2012) . Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin, 15(7), 711-720.
Baumbach SF, Dall'Ara E, Weninger P, Antoni A, Traxler H, Dörr M & Zysset PK (2012) . BMC Musculoskelet Disord, 13, 252.
Sipos W, Zysset P, Kostenuik P, Mayrhofer E, Bogdan C, Rauner M, Stolina M, Dwyer D, Sommerfeld-Stur I, Pendl G , Resch H et al (2011) . Horm Metab Res, 43(13), 944-949.
Paschalis EP, Tatakis DN, Robins S, Fratzl P, Manjubala I, Zoehrer R, Gamsjaeger S, Buchinger B, Roschger A, Phipps R , Boskey AL et al (2011) . Bone, 49(6), 1232-1241.
Varga P, Dall'Ara E, Pahr DH, Pretterklieber M & Zysset PK (2011) . Biomech Model Mechanobiol, 10(4), 431-444.
Sipos W, Kralicek E, Rauner M, Duvigneau CJ, Worliczek HL, Schamall D, Hartl RT, Sommerfeld-Stur I, Dall'Ara E, Varga P , Resch H et al (2011) . Horm Metab Res, 43(6), 404-409.
Dall'Ara E, Ohman C, Baleani M & Viceconti M (2011) . J Biomech, 44(8), 1593-1598.
Dall'Ara E, Varga P, Pahr D & Zysset P (2011) . Med Phys, 38(5), 2602-2608.
Weninger P, Dall'Ara E, Drobetz H, Nemec W, Figl M, Redl H, Hertz H & Zysset P (2011) . Wien Klin Wochenschr, 123(1-2), 4-10.
Weninger P, Dall'Ara E, Leixnering M, Pezzei C, Hertz H, Drobetz H, Redl H & Zysset P (2010) . J Trauma, 69(5), E46-E55.
Dall'Ara E, Schmidt R, Pahr D, Varga P, Chevalier Y, Patsch J, Kainberger F & Zysset P (2010) . J Biomech, 43(12), 2374-2380.
Deutschmann J, Patsch J, Valentinitsch A, Pietschmann P, Varga P, Dall'Ara E, Zysset P, Weber GW, Resch H & Kainberger F (2010) Research Network Osteology Vienna (RNO): High-resolution and micro-computed tomography in viennese osteological research. Journal fur Mineralstoffwechsel, 17(3), 104-109.
Ohman C, Dall'Ara E, Baleani M, Van Sint Jan S & Viceconti M (2008) . Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon), 23(10), 1294-1298.
Schileo E, Dall'ara E, Taddei F, Malandrino A, Schotkamp T, Baleani M & Viceconti M (2008) . J Biomech, 41(11), 2483-2491.
Ohman C, Baleani M, Perilli E, Dall'Ara E, Tassani S, Baruffaldi F & Viceconti M (2007) . J Biomech, 40(11), 2426-2433.
Dall'Ara E, Ohman C, Baleani M & Viceconti M (2007) . J Biomech, 40(14), 3267-3270.
Garavelli C, Aldieri A, Palanca M, Dall’Ara E & Viceconti M () . Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.
Sengokmen-Ozsoz N, Aleemardani M, Palanca M, Hann A, Reilly G, Dall'Ara E & Claeyssens F () . Biofabrication.
Moraiti S, Cheong VS, Dall’Ara E, Kadirkamanathan V & Bhattacharya P () . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 12.
Miller CJ, Pickering E, Martelli S, Dall’Ara E, Delisser P & Pivonka P () . Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.
Pepe V, Oliviero S, Cristofolini L & Dall'Ara E () . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8.
Rakowski AG, Veličković P, Dall’Ara E & Liò P () . PLOS ONE, 15(2), e0228962-e0228962.
Martelli S, Giorgi M, Dall'Ara E & Perilli E () . SSRN Electronic Journal.
van Riel N, Müller R & Dall’Ara E () .

Chapters

San Cheong V, Palanca M & Dall'Ara E (2023) , Digital Human Modeling and Medicine (pp. 515-546). Elsevier
Dall’Ara E & Cheong VS (2022) , Human Orthopaedic Biomechanics (pp. 97-120). Elsevier
van ’t Hof RJ & Dall’Ara E (2019) , Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 507-531). Springer New York
Nishiyama KK, Dall'Ara E & Engelke K (2018) (pp. 260-271). Wiley

Conference proceedings papers

Li Y, Ahmed H, Dall'ara E, Sullivan N, Liem Y, Tucker D, Fry C, Ooij BV, Blom A & Sharif M (2020) . ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES, Vol. 79 (pp 1334-1334)
Li Y, Liem Y, Dall’Ara E, Fry C, Sullivan N, Tucker D, Zamli Z, Ahmed H, Sellers GM, Blom A & Sharif M (2020) . Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Vol. 28 (pp S174-S174)
Roberts B, Carrera HA, Pour SZ, Boudiffa M, Gartland A, Wang N & Dall'Ara E (2019) Longitudinal Effects of Combined Bone Anabolic Interventions on Ovariectomised Mice. JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH, Vol. 34 (pp 258-259)
Zysset PK, Maquer G, Lu Y, Dall'Ara E, Chevalier Y, Krause M, Yang L, Eastell R & Lippuner K (2016) HOW DOES THE INITIAL SLOPE OF THE VARIOGRAM, THE TEXTURAL BASIS OF THE TRABECULAR BONE SCORE, PREDICT VERTEBRAL STRENGTH?. OSTEOPOROSIS INTERNATIONAL, Vol. 27 (pp S105-S105)
Pahr D, Kinzl M, Dall'Ara E, Museyko O, Engelke K, Panyasantisuk J & Zysset P (2013) Femoral strength computed from QCT-based finite element analyses is not influenced by voxel or smooth mesh type. JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH, Vol. 28
Dall'Ara E, Pahr D & Zysset P (2012) . Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 45 (pp S450-S450)
Dall'ara E, Pahr D, Varga P, Kainberger F & Zysset P (2011) . Bone, Vol. 48 (pp S176-S176)
Sipos W, Kralicek E, Rauner M, Duvigneau CJ, Worliczek HL, Schamall D, Hartl RT, Sommerfeld-Stur I, Dall'Ara E, Varga P , Resch H et al (2011) . Bone, Vol. 48 (pp S198-S198)
Dall'Ara E, Varga P, Pahr DH & Zysset PK (2010) . Bone, Vol. 47 (pp S81-S82)

Reports

Carusi A (2015) In silico Clinical Trials: How Computer Simulations Will Transform the Biomedical Industry. An International Roadmap for an Industry-Driven Initiative.

Software / Code

Dall'Ara E & Lio’ P .
Dall'Ara E, Zhang Y & Kadirkamanathan V .

Datasets

Dall'Ara E & Roberts B .
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Dall'Ara E & Lio’ P .
Dall'Ara E & Oliviero S .
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Dall'Ara E, Yang Y, Kadirkamanathan V & Viceconti M .
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Schileo E, Dall'Ara E, Taddei F, Malandrino A, Schotkamp T, Baleani M & Viceconti M (2008) . Journal of Biomechanics, 41(15), 3294.
Dall'Ara E, Giorgi M & Nowlan NC () .
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Preprints

Garavelli C, Aldieri A, Palanca M, Dall'Ara E & Viceconti M (2024) Validation of homogenized finite element models of human metastatic vertebrae using digital volume correlation, arXiv.
Martelli S, Henyš P & Dall'Ara E (2024) , Elsevier BV.
Henson WH, Mazzá C & Dall’Ara E (2022) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Roberts BC, Cheong VS, Oliviero S, Carrera HMA, Wang N, Gartland A & Dall’Ara E (2022) , Research Square Platform LLC.
Ascolani G, Skerry TM, Lacroix D, Dall'Ara E & Shuaib A (2019) ABM of osteoblast's mechanotransduction pathway: time patterns of critical events, arXiv.
Rakowski AG, Veličković P, Dall'Ara E & Liò P (2019) , arXiv.
Giorgi M, Sotiriou V, Fanchini N, Conigliaro S, Bignardi C, Nowlan NC & Dall’Ara E () , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

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PostDocs

PhD Students

Ms Silvia Dirstaru (PhD student, 1st sup)
Ms Jingzhi Zhang (PhD student, 1st sup)
Ms Saira Frage-O'Reilly (PhD student, 1st sup.)
Mr Robert Roger (PhD student, 1st sup.)
Ms Fiona Gibson (PhD student, 2nd sup.)
Mr Zhicheng Lin (PhD student, 2nd sup.)
Mr Keir Robson (PhD student, 2nd sup.)
Mr Ryan Cai (PhD student, 2nd sup.)
Mr Florian Rieger (PhD student at ETH Zurich, co-supervisor; main supervisor Prof Ferguson)
Mr Albano Malerba (PhD student at University of Liege, co-promotor; main supervisor Prof Ruffoni)
Mr Vijaysankar Anbalagan (PhD student at University of Leuven, co-promotor; main supervisor Prof van Lenthe)
Ms Laura Mueller (PhD student at university of Liege, co-promotor; main supervisor Prof Ruffoni)

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Grants

2025-2028; Li (PI), Dall’Ara E, Lacroix D, Offiah A, Cohen M: “ChildBone: A novel digital twin to assess childhood bone strength comparing normal versus metabolic bone disease”; EPSRC; ~£850k
2024-2029; Dall’Ara E (PI): “Virtual Mouse and Human Twins for optimising Treatments for Osteoporosis (VHMTs-OP)”; EPSRC (EU Guarantee Fund after being Selected for ERC Consolidator grant); ~£1.74M
2023-2028; Dall’Ara E (UoS PI, WP leader), Lacroix D, et al. [Coordinator UniBo]: “METASTRA: Computer-aided effective fracture risk stratification of patients with vertebral metastases for personalised treatment through robust computational models validated in clinical settings”; EU HorizonEurope; ~6M euro [~£773k to Sheffield]
2022-2027; van Lenthe H, Ruffoni D, Dall’Ara E, Stok K; “Understanding joint health: biomechanical and mechanobiological characterization of the bone-cartilage interface (UNITE)”; FNRS and FWO (Belgium, EOS excellence of Science scheme); ~€2000k [€94.5k to Sheffield]
2022-2023; Palanca M, Dall’Ara E, Cristofolini L; 2022-2023, “Effect of the IVD conditions on the risk of vertebral fracture in metastatic patients”; AO Spine Knowledge Forum Associate Research Award, €24k
2020-2024; Farage-O’Reilly S, Dall’Ara E; “Multi-scale models for the prediction of bone remodelling due to musculoskeletal interventions”: PhD studentships EPSRC; ~£70k
2020-2024; Inksson B (PI), Pinna C, Dall'Ara E, Fairclough JPA, Moebus G, Hounslow MJ, Cumming D, Reeves-McLaren N; “An X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography Facility with in-situ/in operando testing”: EPSRC ; £1412k
2019-2026; Narracott AJ (PI), Fenner JW, Gunn JP, Clayton RH, Mazza C, Reilly G, Lawford PV, Wild JM, Hose DR, Marzo A, Villa-Uriol MC, Li X, Guo L, Dall'Ara E, Bhattacharya P, Walker DC, Watton P; “Centre for New Methods in Computational Diagnostics and Personalised Therapy (SANO)”: Horizon2020; €2897k
2019-2021; Dall’Ara E (PI), Palanca M; “Comprehensive experimental and computational mechanical characterization of metastatic vertebrae (METASPINE)”: Horizon2020, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship; €213k
2019-2021; Mazza’ C (PI), Dall’Ara E, Li X, Battacharia P, Kadirkamanathan V, McCloskey E; “Frontier Engineering: Progression Grant in Modelling complex and partially identified engineering problems. Application to the musculoskeletal system (MULTISIM2)”: Progression Grant EPSRC; £758k
2019-2020; Dall’Ara E (PI); “Equipment for Mouse gait lab”: EPSRC ECR Capital Enhancement Programme 2018
2018-2022; Reilly G (PI), Mazza’ C, Lacroix D, Claeyssen F, Guo L, Dall’Ara E; “SPINe: Numerical and Experimental Repair strategies”: Horizon2020 European program, Initial Training Network; £476k
2017-2020; Dall’Ara E (PI), Bellantuono I, Viceconti M; “In silico approaches for preclinical assessment of bone changes in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis studies”: National Centre for replacement, refinement and reduction of animal use in research; £353k
2017-2019; Bellantuono I (PI), Dall’Ara E; “Targeting mechanisms of ageing to maintain musculoskeletal health”: Biological and Biotechnological Sciences Research Council; £261k
2017-2019; Dall’Ara E (PI); “Novel Assessment of the Osteoarthritic Hip Subchondral Bone: a Combined Experimental and Computational Investigation”: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; £101k
2015-2016; Dall’Ara E (PI); “Multiscale characterization of osteoarthritic subchondral bone: combination of microCT, elastic registration and microindentation”: Royal Society research grant; £15k
2016-2019; Dall’Ara E (PI), Hose R, Lawford P; “Assessment of bone growth in preclinical studies with Kalman filtering”: EPSRC PhD scholarship; £65k
2015-2018; Dall’Ara E (PI), Viceconti M; “Prediction of the risk of vertebral fracture in patients with metastatic lesions as a tool for more effective patients’ management”: Sheffield Hospitals Charity; £65k
2013-2015; Dall’Ara E (Fellow), Viceconti M; “Methodologically and Accurate modelling of bone”: FP7, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship; €222k

Teaching interests

I teach in the Computational Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System (MEC457, BIE6433).

I give invited lectures in different modules in engineering.

Professional activities and memberships

Director of the SkeletAl laboratory since 2020
Research Director Insigneo "Computational Modelling in Medicine" research theme since 2021
Head of the Integrative Musculoskeletal Biomechanics (IMSB) group 2022-2024
Member of Mellanby Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Executive Committee since 2021
President of the European Society of Biomechanics since 2024
Council member for the European Society of Biomechanics since 2018
President of the UK chapter of the Virtual Physiological Human Institute 2018-2024
Deputy chair of the Working Group 3 of the Bone Metastases Group of the National Cancer Research Institute in 2023
Editorial Board member of the Journal of Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials since 2019
Associate Editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Biomechanics) since 2022
Member of the ESB since 2008, BRS since 2014, ECTS since 2015 and ORS since 2017
Reviewer for national and international funders
Reviewer for the major journals in the field of biomechanics and bone research
Editorial Board member of Clinical Biomechanics since 2025

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