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Professor Peter Pivonka
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering
Biography
Peter finished his PhD with distinction at the Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures at Vienna University of Technology (TU-Vienna) in 2001. In 2007 he completed his Doctor of Science thesis at TU-Vienna leading to the award of the Venia Docendi in Continuum Mechanics and Biomechanics. Peter previously held the position of Associate Professor of Surgery at the St Vincent’s Department of Surgery at the University of Melbourne, where he led the Mechanobiology and Musculoskeletal Tissue Mechanics group. Peter is currently the Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Spinal Disorders at Queensland University of Technology.Peter has made significant contributions to musculoskeletal research in terms of establishing mechanobiology and bioengineering as priority research areas, promoting novel inter-disciplinary approaches to orthopaedic and bone biology research, and organization of workshops and mini-symposia. Peter’s work on mechanobiological regulation of bone tissue and multiscale modeling of materials is nationally and internationally recognized. His research interests are in mechanobiology, biomaterials, tissue engineering, musculoskeletal diseases (OP, OA, sarcopenia) and clinical interventions, estimation of material properties, multiscale modeling, systems biology, and high-resolution X-ray imaging.
Over the last 5 years Peter has published one book, three book chapters, 25 journal papers, 25 conference papers covering both theoretical and experimental aspects of biomechanics and mechanobiology. His research publications are in high impact journals such as Bone, BoneKEy, Journal of Biomechanics, Journal of Theoretical Biology, BMMB, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, PlosOne and International Journal of Nanomedicine. He has contributed to more than 100 conference abstracts since 2004 and has presented a majority of these papers.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor and Chair of Biomechanics
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering
Keywords
biomechanics, mechanobiology, bone adaptation, multiscale modeling, tissue engineering, finite element analysis, bone remodeling, osteoporosis, bone fracture
Research field
Biomedical engineering, Mechanical engineering, Materials engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD in Engineering Sciences (Civil Engineering) (Vienna Technical University)
Professional memberships and associations
2014-
Member
Australian New Zealand Society of Biomechanics (ANZSB)
2011-
Member
European Society of Biomechanics (ESB)
2011
Member
International Bone and Mineral Research Society (IBMS)
2011-
Member
Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society (ANZIAM), Mathematical Biology
2011-2015
Member
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST); Materials, Physics and Nanosciences: from Nano to Macro Biomaterials (NAMABIO)
2009-
Member
National Institute of Health (NIH) - Multiscale Modelling in Tissue Mechanics
2008-
Member
Australian and New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society (ANZORS)
2006-2016
Member
Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society (ANZBMS)
2005-
Member
American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Experience
3/2017 – current
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Spinal Disorders, School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology
7/2015 – 2/2017
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Associate Professor of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, St Vincent’s Department of Surgery
3/2013 – 6/2015
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Associate Professor of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Northwest Academic Centre
5/2012 – 2/2013
Perth, WA, Australia
Research Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia, School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
2/2009 – 4/2012
Perth, WA, Australia
Research Fellow (C), The University of Western Australia, School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
3/2005 – 1/2009
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Research Fellow (C), The University of Melbourne, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
9/2004 – 2/2005
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Research Fellow (B), The University of Melbourne, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
3/2004 - 8/2004
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
3/2003 – 2/2004
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Research Fellow, The University of Newcastle, Dept. of Civil, Surveying and Environmental Engineering
8/2002 – 2/2003
Perth, WA, Australia
Research Fellow, CSIRO – Exploration and Mining
9/2000 – 2/2002
Vienna, Austria
University Associate, Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures
9/1996 – 8/2000
Vienna, Austria
Research Associate, Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures
Publications
- Sansalone, V., Martin, M., Haïat, G., Pivonka, P. & Lemaire, T. (2021). A new model of bone remodeling and turnover set up in the framework of generalized continuum mechanics. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 26(9), 1376–1393. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207922
- Calvo-Gallego, J., Pivonka, P., Garcia-Aznar, J. & Martinez-Reina, J. (2021). A novel algorithm to resolve lack of convergence and checkerboard instability in bone adaptation simulations using non-local averaging. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 37(2). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206708
- Martinez-Reina, J., Calvo-Gallego, J. & Pivonka, P. (2021). Are drug holidays a safe option in treatment of osteoporosis? - Insights from an in silico mechanistic PK–PD model of denosumab treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 113. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206707
- Pickering, E., Silva, M., Delisser, P., Brodt, M., Gu, Y. & Pivonka, P. (2021). Estimation of load conditions and strain distribution for in vivo murine tibia compression loading using experimentally informed finite element models. Journal of Biomechanics, 115. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207215
- Holmes, D. & Pivonka, P. (2021). Novel pressure inlet and outlet boundary conditions for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, applied to real problems in porous media flow. Journal of Computational Physics, 429. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207058
- Martin, M., Pivonka, P., Haïat, G., Lemaire, T. & Sansalone, V. (2020). Algorithmic formulation of bone fabric evolution based on the dissipation principle: A 2D finite-element study. In B. Abali & I. Giorgio (Eds.), Developments and Novel Approaches in Biomechanics and Metamaterials (pp. 49–69). Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205637
- Martin, M., Sansalone, V., Cooper, D., Forwood, M. & Pivonka, P. (2020). Assessment of romosozumab efficacy in the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis: Results from a mechanistic PK-PD mechanostat model of bone remodeling. Bone, 133.
- Martin, M., Lemaire, T., Haïat, G., Pivonka, P. & Sansalone, V. (2020). Bone orthotropic remodeling as a thermodynamically-driven evolution. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 20(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206706
- Harrison, K., Hiebert, B., Panahifar, A., Andronowski, J., Ashique, A., King, G., Arnason, T., Swekla, K., Pivonka, P. & Cooper, D. (2020). Cortical bone porosity in rabbit models of osteoporosis. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 35(11), 2211–2228. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205639
- Martelli, S., Beck, B., Saxby, D., Lloyd, D., Pivonka, P. & Taylor, M. (2020). Modelling human locomotion to inform exercise prescription for osteoporosis. Current Osteoporosis Reports, 18(3), 301–311. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202682
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