Jérôme Noailly

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Talk Title: Your Digital Twin: Predicting and Preventing Joint Pain

Short Talk Description: This talk explains the combination of computer simulations to understand the complex, multifactorial degeneration of load-bearing organs, e.g., joints, to identify risk factors and new therapies.

Jérôme Noailly is a Full Professor at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), where he co-directs the SIMBIOSys research group and leads the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Area, at the Barcelona Centre for New Medical Technologies. He began his career with a PhD in spine modelling at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Through Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships, he expanded his research into mechanobiology in Switzerland and the Netherlands before establishing his group in Barcelona, in his quality as a Ramon y Cajal fellow. At UPF, he integrates biology- and physics-based computational modelling with biological measurements, clinical data, and machine learning, for precision medicine.

Professor Noailly has been contributing to major European projects, is the recipient of the ERC Consolidator Grant O-Health and has coordinated the Doctoral Network Disc4All. He has been supervising 15 PhD theses, co-authored over 50 journal articles, and held leadership roles in key scientific societies such as the European Society of Biomechanics, and the International Society for In Silico Medicine.