Dr. Alberto Elosegui Artola

Biography

Alberto Elosegui-Artola is a lecturer in the Department of Physics at King's College London and leads the Cell Tissue Mechanobiology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute. His research focuses on understanding how physical properties and biochemical cues interact to regulate biological functions. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Navarra, Spain, in 2012. Following his graduation, he joined the laboratory of Pere Roca-Cusachs at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Barcelona for postdoctoral studies, where he contributed to the identification of novel molecular mechanisms that explain how cells sense and respond to mechanical properties. In 2017, he was awarded a Marie-Skłodowska Curie fellowship to continue his research training in David J. Mooney’s laboratory at Harvard University, investigating the effects of extracellular matrix viscoelasticity on cell and tissue responses. In 2021, he received an ERC Starting Grant to establish his laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in a joint appointment with the Physics Department at King's College London, aspiring to merge physics, engineering, and biology to study the mechanics of living tissues. His work aims to understand the interplay between mechanical properties and biochemical stimuli at molecular, cellular, and tissue levels.

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