Adriano Zaffora was born in Palermo (Italy), in 1982. He received his Master Degree in Biomedical Engineer in 2006 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. During his Master Thesis he worked on computational fluid dynamic methods to optimize dynamic cell seeding processes for human cartilage tissue engineering. Since March 2007 he has been cooperating with LaBS staff performing computational fluid dynamic studies. From June 2007 to November 2007 he was Research Fellow at the Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering Department “G. Natta” of Politecnico di Milano within the project “Development of innovative fibres and tissues” funded by European Social Fund. At present he has got a fully-funded PhD studentship at the Structural, Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering Department of Politecnico di Milano. His research main topic deals with innovative materials for structural engineering applications.