Awards

Awarded with the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, on July 2004 in Portland, Oregon, for the paper A Domain Decomposition Method for Advection-Diffusion Processes with Application to Blood Solutes, by Alfio Quarteroni, Alessandro Veneziani and Paolo Zunino, appeared in the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing in 2002.

The prizes, first awarded in 1999, are given for outstanding papers published in SIAM journals during the three years prior to the year of the award. The selection committee for this year's award consisted of Walter Strauss (Chair), Jerrold Griggs, and Thomas Y. Hou.

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Publications

Books:

• K.Perktold, M.Prosi, P.Zunino, Mathematical models of mass transfer in the vascular walls, Chapter 7 of Cardiovascular Mathematics, Springer Series on Modeling, Simulation and Applications, L.Formaggia, A.Quarteroni, A.Veneziani (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2009, ISBN: 978-88-470-1151-9 (link)


• S.Salsa, F.Vegni, A.Zaretti, P.Zunino, Invito alle Equazioni a Derivate Parziali, UNITEXT, Springer Italia, Milano, 2009, ISBN: 978-88-470-1179-3 (link)

Articles on Refereed Journals:

Subject classification: Mathematics (indexed AMS - Mathscinet)

• L. Formaggia, S. Minisini, P. Zunino, Modeling erosion controlled drug release and transport phenomena in the arterial tissue, to appear on Math. Mod. Meth. Appl. Sci. (M3AS), 2010


• C.D'Angelo, P.Zunino, A finite element method based on weighted interior penalties for heterogeneous incompressible flows, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 3990-4020 (2009)


• P.Zunino, Numerical approximation of incompressible flows with net flux defective boundary conditions by means of penalty techniques, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. Vol. 198 (2009), No. 37-40, pp. 3026-3038


• P.Zunino, C.D'Angelo, L.Petrini, C.Vergara, C.Capelli, F.Migliavacca, Numerical simulation of drug eluting coronary stents: mechanics, fluid dynamics and drug release, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. Vol. 198 (2009), No. 45-46, pp. 3633-3644, special issue on Models and Methods in Computational Vascular and Cardiovascular Mechanics.


• P.Zunino, Discontinuous Galerkin methods based on weighted interior penalties for second order PDEs with non-smooth coefficients , J. Sci. Comput. Vol. 38, No 1, (2009), pp. 99-126.


• C. Vergara, P. Zunino, Multiscale boundary conditions for drug release from cardiovascular stents , SIAM Multiscale Model. Simul. Vol. 7, No. 2 (2008), pp. 565-588.


• A. Ern, A. Stephansen, P. Zunino, A Discontinuous Galerkin method with weighted averages for advection-diffusion equations with locally vanishing and anisotropic diffusivity, IMA J. Numer. Anal. Vol. 29, No. 2 (2009)


• E. Burman, P. Zunino, A domain decomposition method based on weightd interior penalties for advection-diffusion-reaction problems, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. Vol. 44 (2006), No. 4, pp. 1612-1638.


• F.Calabr\`o, P.Zunino, Analysis of parabolic problems on partitioned domains with nonlinear conditions at the interface. Application to mass transfer through semi-permeable membranes., Math. Mod. Meth. Appl. Sci. (M3AS) Vol. 16, No. 4 (2006), pp. 479-501.


• A. Quarteroni, A. Veneziani, P. Zunino, Domain Decomposition Methods for Blood Solute Dynamics, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., Vol. 23 (2002), No. 6, pp. 1959-1980.


• A. Quarteroni, A. Veneziani, P. Zunino, Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Solute Dynamics in Blood Flow and Arterial Walls, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., Vol 39 (2002), No. 2, pp. 1488-1511.


• L. Formaggia, S.Perotto and P. Zunino, An Anisotropic a-posteriori error estimate for a convection-diffusion problem,Comput. Visual. Sci. Vol. 4 (2001), No. 2, pp. 105-109.



Subject classification: Life Sciences (indexed MEDLINE - Pubmed)

• Joao S. Soares, Paolo Zunino, A mixture model for water uptake, degradation, erosion and drug release from polydisperse polymeric networks, Biomaterials, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 February 2010, ISSN 0142-9612, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.01.008.


• F.Migliavacca, F.Gervaso, M.Prosi, P.Zunino, S.Minisini, L.Formaggia and G.Dubini, Expansion and drug elution model of a coronary stent, Comput. Methods. Biomech. Biomed. Engin. Vol. 10, No. 1 (2007), pp. 63-73. (indexed MEDLINE, journal home page)


• Antonio F. Corno, Martin Prosi, Pierre Fridez, Paolo Zunino, Alfio Quarteroni, Ludwig K. von Segesser The non-circular shape of FloWatch(r)-PAB prevents the need for pulmonary artery reconstruction after banding. Computational fluid dynamics and clinical correlations Eur. J. Cardiothorac. Surg. 2006 Jan;29(1):93-9. Epub 2005 Dec 6. (indexed MEDLINE, journal home page)


• M. Prosi, P.Zunino, K. Perktold, A. Quarteroni, Mathematical and numerical models for transfer of low density lipoproteins through the arterial walls: a new methodology for the model set up with applications to the study of disturbed lumenal flow, J. of Biomech., vol 38, (2005) pp. 903-917. (indexed MEDLINE, journal home page)


• P. Zunino Multidimensional pharmacokinetic models applied to the design of drug eluting stents, Cardiovasc. Eng., Vol. 4, No. 2 (2004), pp. 181-191. (indexed MEDLINE, journal home page)

Conference Proceedings (with peer review)

Subject classification: Mathematics (indexed AMS - Matscinet)

• C. D'Angelo, P. Zunino, Multiscale models of drug delivery by thin implantable devices to appear on Applied and industrial mathematics in Italy III, Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences, World Sci. Publ. Vol. 75, 2009, pp. 597--608.


• P. Zunino, Energy norm a-posteriori error estimates for a discontinuous Galerkin scheme applied to elliptic problems with an interface, to appear on the Procceedings of the International Conference on Boundary and Interior Layers - Computational & Asymptotic Methods (BAIL2008), Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Springer.


• P. Zunino, An adaptive discontinuous Galerkin scheme for second order problems with an interface, Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Springer, Proceedings of ENUMATH 2007, the 7th European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Graz, Austria, September 2007, pp. 209--216.


• C. D'Angelo, P. Zunino, Numerical simulation of the interaction between blood flow and drug release from stents, Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Springer, Proceedings of ENUMATH 2007, the 7th European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Graz, Austria, September 2007, pp. 157--164.


• P. Zunino, Mortar and discontinuous Galerkin methods based on weighted interior penalties, Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XVII, Austria, July 3-7 2006, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering Vol 60, 2007, Langer, U.; Discacciati, M.; Keyes, D.; Widlund, O.; Zulehner, W. (Eds.), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-75198-4


• P. Zunino, Iterative substructuring methods for advection-diffusion problems in heterogeneous media, Challenges in Scientific Computing CISC2002, (Proceedings of CISC2002 Conference, Berlin, 2002), Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, E. Baensch Ed., 2003 VIII, ISBN 3-540-40887-8, Springer, pp.184-210.

Conference Proceedings (without peer review)

• M. Prosi, F. Gervaso, P. Zunino, S. Minisini and L. Formaggia. Numerical simulation of drug release from stents. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - CMBBE 2006. Eds. Middleton J, Shrive NG and Evans S, FIRST Numerics Ltd., Cardiff (UK)


• D.Mastalli, A.Quarteroni, P.Zunino A steepest descent algorithm for control problems with switches. Application to the optimization of peritoneal dialysis. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Computing and Applications, June 20-23 2005, Shanghai, China, Science Press of China, 2005, pp. 50-62.


• P. Zunino, D.Mastalli, Optimal control of peritoneal dialysis. Proceedings of the conference: Control Systems: Theory, Numerics and Applications, Rome, 30 March - 1 April 2005 on Procedings of Science, S.I.S.S.A.


• D.Mastalli, A.Quarteroni, P.Zunino, Modelli matematici per l'ottimizzazione della dialisi peritoneale Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Collezione delle Lezioni del Ciclo Scienze e tecnologie per lo sviluppo sostenibile della societ\`a umana, anno 2002/2003, 13 pagine.


• L.Formaggia, F.Nobile, A.Quarteroni, A.Veneziani, P.Zunino, Advances on Numerical Modelling of Blood Flow Problems, Proceedings of ECCOMAS 2000 Conference, E. Onate Ed., CDROM, ISBN 84-89925-70-4.


• A.Quarteroni, A.Veneziani, P.Zunino, Numerical investigation of transport and absorption phenomena of blood solutes, in the 18th National Heat Transfer Conference, A. Niro et al. Eds. ETIS, Pisa, 2000, pp.955-966.

Technical notes:

• P.Zunino, D.Mastalli, A.Quarteroni, F.Neftel, J.P.Wauters, Development of a new mathematical approach to optimize
  peritoneal dialysis, S\'erie d'Analyse et Analyse Num\'erique, Departement de Mathematiques, EPFL, No.11, 2004.

Participation to International Conferences and Invited Seminars

• Title: Mathematical and numerical modelling of mass transfer in the vascular system.

• Title: Modelling and simulation of solute dynamics in the vascular system.

• Title: Mathematical and numerical modeling of solute dynamics in blood flow and arterial walls.

• Title: Modeling of macromolecule transport in arterial walls: existence of a solution.

• Title: Multifield Models for Bio-engineering Applications.

Poster Sessions:

• A. Corno, V. Milisic, P. Zunino, A. Quarteroni., Computational/mathematical modeling of the systemic and pulmonary circulations with and without ventricular septal defect., 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology, May 16 - 19, 2007, Warsaw.


• S. Minisini, F. Gervaso, M. Prosi, P. Zunino, F. Migliavacca, L. Formaggia, G. Dubini Computational Models of Drug Eluting Stents in a Artherosclerotic Coronary Artery., EBR 2006, May 2006, Marseille.

Teaching Activities

Politecnico di Milano

• a.y. '07-'08 summer semester: teacher of the course Metodi numerici per l'ingegneria Biomedica e Nucleare, Polimi
• a.y. '07-'08 winter semester: teacher of the course Metodi numerici per le Equazioni alle Derivate Parziali (Ing. Mat.), Polimi
• a.y. '06-'07, '07-'08 winter semester: teacher for the course Metodi Analitici e Numerici per l'Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Polimi
• a.y. '04-'05, '05-'06, '06-'07 summer semester: assistant for the course Analisi Numerica (Ing. Mat.), Polimi, Prof. A. Quarteroni.

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

• a.y. '02-'03, summer semester: assistant for the course Analyse Numérique, EPFL, Prof. A. Quarteroni.
• a.y. '02-'03, winter semester: assistant for the course Mathematical Modelling ofthe Cardiovascular System, EPFL, Prof. A. Quarteroni.
• a.y. '01-'02, summer semester: assistant for the course Analyse Numérique, EPFL, Dr. L. Formaggia.
• a.y. '01-'02, winter semester: assistant for the course Analyse III, EPFL, Prof. Y.Biollay.
• a.y. '00-'01, summer semester: assistant for the course Analyse Numérique, EPFL, Dr. L. Formaggia.
• a.y. '00-'01, winter semester: assistant for the course Analyse I, EPFL, Prof. Y.Biollay.
• a.y. '99-'00 summer semester: assistant for the course Analyse Numérique, EPFL, Prof. A. Quarteroni.

Work Experience and Collaborations

• Summer '99-April 2005, Lausanne: collaboration with Debiotech S.A
• Subject: mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of kinetics of chemicals in Peritoneal Dialysis Therapy

• October '02-present, Lausanne-Graz-Milan: scientific investigator in the Haemodel Project. 

• Febuary '03, Graz: collaboration with the Biofluid Mechanics Research Group, Graz University of Technology.
• Subject: Mathematical and numerical models for transfer of low density lipoproteins through the arterial walls.

• December'02, Tokyo: collaboration with Terumo Corporation
  
• Subject: development of computer software for the numerical simulation of peritoneal dialysis.

• December '02, Graz: collaboration with the Biofluid Mechanics Research Group, Graz University of Technology.
• Subject: mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of mass transfer in the vascular system.

• June '02-present, Lausanne and Ghent (Belgium): collaboration with Ghent University Hospital
• Subject: clinical validation of numerical simulations of peritoneal dialysis.

• May '01, Graz (Austria): collaboration with the Biofluid Mechanics Research Group, Graz University of Technology.
• Subject: mathematical modelling of mass transfer through the arterial walls.

• April-October '00, Lausanne: collaboration with the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
• Subject: clinical validation of numerical simulations of peritoneal dialysis.

Links

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