School of Engineering

Dr Manlio Tassieri

  • Lecturer (Biomedical Engineering)

telephone: 01413308116
email: Manlio.Tassieri@glasgow.ac.uk


Biography

Manlio Tassieri is a Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC within the Biomedical Engineering Division at The University of Glasgow.


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 TECNOSISTEM 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 is 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).

Research Interests

Manlio Tassieri research interests are in the fields of rheology, microrheology and metrology applied to biological, bio-analytical and synthetic systems.

Expertise

Rheology, microrheology (i.e. passive video particle tracking, magnetic tweezers, optical tweezers), rheo-optics, polymer physics and technology, biophysics (i.e. bio-polymer network and cell mechanics)

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Number of items: 10.

2012

Lee, M.P., Curran, A. , Gibson, G.M. , Tassieri, M. , Heckenberg, N.R., and Padgett, M.J. (2012) Optical shield: measuring viscosity of turbid fluids using optical tweezers. Optics Express, 20 (11). pp. 12127-12132. ISSN 1094-4087 (doi:10.1364/OE.20.012127)

2011

Preece, D., Warren, R. , Evans, R.M.L., Gibson, G.M. , Padgett, M.J. , Cooper, J. , and Tassieri, M. (2011) Optical tweezers: wideband microrheology. Journal of Optics, 13 (4). 04402 . ISSN 2040-8978 (doi:10.1088/2040-8978/13/4/044022)

2010

Tassieri, M., Gibson, G. , Evans, R.M.L., Yao, A.M. , Warren, R. , Padgett, M.J. , and Cooper, J.M. (2010) Measuring storage and loss moduli using optical tweezers: broadband microrheology. Physical Review E, 81 (2). 026308. ISSN 1539-3755 (doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.81.026308)

Embery, J., Tassieri, M. , Hine, P. J., and Lord, T. D. (2010) An investigation into the constriction flow of a particle reinforced polystyrene melt using a combination of flow visualization and finite element simulations. Journal of Rheology, 54 (5). pp. 1097-1117. ISSN 01486055 (doi:10.1122/1.3478307)

Tassieri, M., Waigh, T.A., Trinick, J., Aggeli, A., and Evans, R.M.L. (2010) Analysis of the linear viscoelasticity of polyelectrolytes by magnetic microrheometry—pulsed creep experiments and the one particle response. Journal of Rheology, 54 (1). p. 117. ISSN 0148-6055 (doi:10.1122/1.3266946)

2009

Berri, S., Boyle, J.H., Tassieri, M. , Hope, I.A., and Cohen, N. (2009) Forward locomotion of the nematode C. elegans is achieved through modulation of a single gait. HFSP Journal, 3 (3). p. 186. ISSN 1955-2068 (doi:10.2976/1.3082260)

Evans, R.M.L., Tassieri, M. , Auhl, D., and Waigh, T.A. (2009) Direct conversion of rheological compliance measurements into storage and loss moduli. Physical Review E, 80 (1). ISSN 1539-3755 (doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.80.012501)

Yao, A., Tassieri, M. , Padgett, M. , and Cooper, J.M. (2009) Microrheology with optical tweezers. Lab On a Chip, 9 (17). pp. 2568-2575. ISSN 1473-0197 (doi:10.1039/b907992k)

2008

Tassieri, M., Evans, R., Barbu-Tudoran, L., Khaname, G., Trinick, J., and Waigh, T. (2008) Dynamics of semiflexible polymer solutions in the highly entangled regime. Physical Review Letters, 101 (19). ISSN 0031-9007 (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.198301)

Tassieri, M., Evans, R.M.L., Barbu-Tudoran, L., Trinick, J., and Waigh, T.A. (2008) The self-assembly, elasticity, and dynamics of cardiac thin filaments☆. Biophysical Journal, 94 (6). pp. 2170-2178. ISSN 0006-3495 (doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.116087)

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Title: “Rheology at the Microscale: New Tools for Bio‐analysis”, RAEng/EPSRC Research Fellowship. Duration five years: from 01/09/10 to 31/08/15. Value: £ 763,325.00.

Manlio Tassieri is second supervisor of Miss Rebecca Warren, Mr Mohd Hafiz Ismail, Miss Liliana Acosta Alvarez.