Dr. Alessandro Coclite obtained his PhD in March 2015 from the Polytechnic University of Bari, where he is currently a researcher in numerical analysis. His scientific work focuses on the development of advanced computational methodologies for multiphysics problems, with applications ranging from biomedical engineering to materials science.

His main areas of research include:

- Multiphase microfluidics and particle transport: Coupled Lattice-Boltzmann/Immersed Boundary methods to simulate the behavior of rigid and deformable bodies, capsules, and circulating tumor cells in complex vascular geometries.

- Vascular adhesion dynamics and targeted release: Models describing how the shape, stiffness, size, and adhesive properties of particles influence adhesion under realistic flow conditions, including interactions with red blood cells and blood rheology.

- Non-local material behavior and peridinamics: Development and analysis of numerical methods for non-local constitutive models, study of dispersive effects in 2D/3D peridinamic formulations, and numerical schemes on manifolds for nonlinear peridinamics.

- Hierarchical and multiscale modeling of vascular microenvironments: Mathematical and sensitivity analysis integrating aspects of transport, metabolism, and mechanics to predict the behavior of drugs, nanoparticles, and cancer cells.