Arti Ahluwalia is Full Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa. She is also Director of the Research Center E.Piaggo, dedicated to advanced biomedical and robotics engineering using intelligent systems and materials. Since 2018 she has also been Director of the Centro 3R, the Italian inter-university center dedicated to promoting the 3Rs (Reduction, Refinement and Replacement of animal experiments) in teaching and research.

She coordinates the “Human-Based Models” group at the Research Center E.Piaggo. Her research is focused on the study of biomimetics and the interaction between the biological and the artificial world for the realization of physiologically relevant in silico and in vitro systems through the integration of engineering technologies (computation, biomaterials, fluidic systems, microscopy, biomechanics, biosensors).

She is also involved in numerous projects on biomedical technologies for development and health equity and has contributed to the creation of the “Africa Biomedical Engineering Consortium” (www.abec-africa.org), dedicated to improving health in Africa through the training of biomedical engineers and the Ubora platform (www.ubora-biomedical.org) for collabrative design of safe, open medical technology.