Mattia Corti received the 2026 GBMA Award for Best PhD Thesis at AIMETA 2026 Conference

At the AIMETA 2026 Conference, Mattia Corti was awarded, ex aequo, the 2026 GBMA Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Theoretical and Applied Biomechanics.

The GBMA Award recognises doctoral theses of outstanding scientific merit in biomechanics. The selection committee, composed of Professors Giuseppe Vairo, Marco de Tullio, Alberto Salvadori, Alessio Gizzi, Emanuela Jacchetti, Alessandro Nitti, and Nicola Sancisi, selected Mattia’s thesis, Mathematical Models and Numerical Methods for Neurodegenerative Diseases, for its originality and innovative contribution to the development of computational methodologies for modelling complex biological systems.

As part of the award, Mattia presented his research in a session at the AIMETA 2026 Conference.

Congratulations, Mattia, very well deserved!!

Further info:

https://www.aimeta.it/index.php/en/groups/biomechanics

https://brescia2026.aimeta.it