Biography
Manlio Tassieri is a Reader within the Division of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Glasgow.
He is a Council Member of The British Society of Rheology, a Member of the Executive Board (2023-2025) of the European Society of Rheology, a Member of the Institute of Physics, an Associate Member of the Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, a Delegate of the Individual Members on the European Society of Rheology Committee, an Ordinary Member of The IoP-Polymer Physics Group, an Ordinary Member of The IoP-Liquids and Complex Fluids Group, an EPSRC Peer Review Full College Member, an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, an Advisory Board Member of Physics of Fluids and Associate Editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology - Biomaterials.
He graduated as a Chemical Engineer from the Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Naples “Federico II” in 2000. During his final‐year project, he developed two novel rheo-optical methods for determining interfacial tension in disperse polymer blends. After graduating, he continued collaborating with researchers in Naples on a pioneering study of the shear induced clustering of gelling droplets in aqueous biphasic mixtures. This topic is of particular interest, for instance, to the food processing industry.
Later, in 2000, he moved to a consultant designer post at TECHNOSYSTEM S.p.A. Whilst there, his main undertaking was to design ventilation and fireproof systems for underground railways. This involved contributions to the design of the Turin underground railway project associated with the 2006 Winter Olympic Games.
In 2003 he decided to follow his aspiration to become an academic researcher. To do this, he embarked on research in the field of Microrheology of semi-flexible bio-polymers at the School of Physics & Astronomy of The University of Leeds, from where he graduated with a PhD in 2007.
Following his PhD, he held a postdoctoral research position in the Polymer Science and Technology IRC at The University of Leeds, collaborating in the Microscale Polymer Processing project.
In 2008 he moved to the Division of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Glasgow to take up a Research Assistant post studying the use of optical tweezers to measure properties of biological cells.
In 2010 he was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship to combine Microrheological techniques with Microfluidic devices. The aim of this Fellowship was to deliver new sensitive tools that measure conformational changes of biological systems at nano‐ and micro‐length scales, occurring as a consequence of pathological phenomena and/or variations in the surrounding solutions (e.g. due to drug stimulation or osmotic changes).
In April 2013, he has been elected council member of The British Society of Rheology.
In July 2016, he has been elected Associate Member of the Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics.
In September 2016, he has been invited to become an EPSRC Peer Review Associate College member.
In January 2017, he has become a Member of the Institute of Physics.
In February 2017, he has been invited to become an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, a journal published by Springer Nature.
In September 2017, he has been elected Ordinary Member of the Polymer Physics Group Committee at the Institute of Physics.
In July 2018, I have been invited to act as co-chairman of the session “Micro, Nano Fluidics & Microrheology” at the Annual European Rheology Conference, to be held at the Grand Hotel Bernardin & Congress Center Bernardin in Portorož, Slovenia, April 8-11, 2019.
In August 2018, he has been promoted to EPSRC Peer Review Full College Member.
In October 2018, he has been elected "Delegate of the Individual Members" on European Society of Rheology Committee.
In March 2020, he has been elected Ordinary Member of the Liquids and Complex Fluids Group at the Institute of Physics.
In August 2021, he has been re-elected for the second consecutive time “Delegate of the Individual Members” on the European Society of Rheology Committee.
In October 2021, he has been re-elected for the second consecutive time Ordinary Member of the Polymer Physics Group Committee at the Institute of Physics.
In January 2022, he has been invited to act as co-chairman of the session “Biorheology and rheology in the biomedical field” at the XIXth International Congress on Rheology, in Athens, Greece, 2023.
In April 2023, he has been invited to act as co-chairman of the session “Experimental Methods and new rheometric techniques” at the Annual European Rheology Conference, to be held at Leeds University, UK, April 9-12, 2024.
In June 2023, he has been invited to become a member of the Advisory Board of Physics of Fluids.
In August 2023, he has been elected member for the Executive Board (2023-2025) of the European Society of Rheology.
In October 2023, he has been invited to become an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology - Biomaterials.
He acts as academic advisor for both national and international funding councils: The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; Science and Technology Facilities Council; Royal Academy of Engineering; The Leverhulme Trust; The Natural Environment Research Council; The French National Research Agency; The National Science Centre (NCN) Poland; Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).
He acts as academic referee for international scientific journals: Science; Advanced materials; Advanced science; Nature communications; Small; Physical Review X; Physical Review Letters; Advanced Healthcare Materials; Advances in Colloid and Interface Science; Acta Biomaterialia; ACS Macro Letters; ACS Nano; Advanced Functional Materials; Advanced Materials Technologies; Biomacromolecules; Lab on a Chip; Macromolecules; Food Hydrocolloids; Physical Review Applied; Biophysical Reviews; Scientific Reports; Journal of the Royal Society Interface; Langmuir; Computer Physics Communications; RSC Soft Matter; Applied Physics Letters; Polymer; Biomedical Optics Express; Optics Express; Annals of Biomedical Engineering; Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research; Molecules; Macromolecular bioscience; Biomicrofluidics; Journal of Materials Science; Journal of Rheology; RSC Advances; Journal of Chemical Physics; PLOS ONE; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A; Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter; Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering; Proceedings of the Royal Society A; Experiments in Fluids; Polymer Testing; Physical Review E; Physics of Fluids; Micromachines; Europhysics Letters; Journal of Theoretical Biology; Rheologica Acta; Applied Optics; Applied Spectroscopy; Review of Scientific Instruments; Korea Australia Rheology Journal; Journal of Polymer Engineering; Experiments in Fluids; Macromolecular chemistry and physics.