Team
The Cellular Mechanobiology Lab started its activity at the University of Glasgow in October 2019, within the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment. If you are interested in joining the Lab, or you want additional information, please feel free to contact us via email.

Massimo Vassalli
Staff (Professor)
Head of the Lab, mechanobiology enthusiast, curious scientist
massimo.vassalli@glasgow.ac.uk
Sabah Sardar
PhD student
Project: Identification of label-free biomarkers in visceral myopathy
2078317s@student.gla.ac.uk
Anna Maria Kapetanaki
PhD student
lifETIME CDT PhD student, Interested in mechanobiology. Project: Label-free physical biomarkers for cell sorting
2454721k@student.gla.ac.uk
Camilla Romagnoli
PhD student
Project: Mechanobiology of senescent cells
c.romagnoli.1@research.gla.ac.uk
David Matthew Hughes
Guest
MEng in EEE engineering prototype devices (acustofluidics, microindentation) for potential commercialisation
david.hughes.4@glasgow.ac.uk
Emily Horsburgh
PhD student
Exploring living materials for producing pigments
2697854H@student.gla.ac.uk
Fiona Lawler
PhD student
Determining plastic mechanisms underlying neoteleost bone remodelling and morphological divergence in response to temperature
2259179L@student.gla.ac.uk
Giuseppe Ciccone
PhD student
keen in cellular biomechanics and mechanobiology
g.ciccone.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Mariana Azevedo Gonzalez Oliva
PhD student
PhD student (first supervisor Prof Salmeron-Sanchez), actively collaborating with the CML for the study of Piezo1 mechanosensitivity
m.azevedo-gonzalez-oliva.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Marta Cubero Sarabia
PhD student
Project: Remote mechanical stimulation of stem cells for osteochondral regenerative therapy
2496511c@student.gla.ac.uk
Noah Schram
BEng student
Project: Image-based diagnosis from biological fluids via acoustofluidics
2417180S@student.gla.ac.uk
Xally Valencia
PhD student
lifETIME CDT PhD Student (1st supervisor Prof John Christie). Project "Designing animal-free organoids based on engineered vegetables and protein crystals"
2783756V@student.gla.ac.ukAlumni
We are particularly grateful to all the scientists who participated in the activities of the Cellular Mechanobiology Lab in recent years, and we wish them a great future career.