Tommaso Ranzani, PhD Associate Professor (ME, MSE, BME)
Education PhD, Sant’Anna School of Advanced StudiesPrimary Appointment Mechanical Engineering
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August 31, 2026
Led by Associate Professor Sheila Russo (ME, MSE) and Associate Professor Tommaso Ranzani (ME, MSE), BU's role is to develop a smarter catheter—a thin tube that combines multiple functions into one tool, a kind of Swiss Army knife for stroke treatment. [ More ]
Areas of Interest Professor Ranzani has extensive experience in the development of medical robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). He explored different technologies and developed a number of manufacturing paradigms to design and manufacture innovative robotic systems and tools. His main research area is soft robotics, he has explored soft robotic technologies to develop novel manipulators, which integrate design principles from biological systems for performing advanced procedures in MIS. He is interested in expanding the potential of soft robots across different scales to develop novel reconfigurable soft-bodied robots.
Publications
Research Areas Robotics, Soft Robotics, BioRobotics, Medical Robotics, Advanced Manufacturing
Honors and Awards NIH Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators, 2020
Classes Taught ME 303 Fluid Mechanics
Additional Affiliations Division of Materials Science and Engineering
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