Mirco Peron earned his degree in mechanical engineering (summa cum laude)in 2015 from the University of Padova, where his thesis evaluated the fatiguedamage and stiffness evolution in composite laminates. He is currently a PhDstudent at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.His PhD topic deals with the optimization of mechanical and corrosionproperties of magnesium and its alloys for biomedical applications, with particularreference to the corrosion-assisted cracking phenomena.Filippo Berto is Chair of Structural Integrity at the Norwegian University ofScience and Technology in Norway. He is in charge of the Mechanical andMaterial Characterization Lab in the Department of Mechanical and IndustrialEngineering. He is author of more than 500 technical papers, mainlyoriented to materials science engineering, the brittle failure of different materials,notch effect, the application of the finite element method to the structuralanalysis, the mechanical behavior of metallic materials, the fatigue performanceof notched components as well as the reliability of welded, bolted andbonded joints. Since 2003, he has been working on different aspects of thestructural integrity discipline, by mainly focusing attention on problemsrelated to the static and fatigue assessment of engineering materials with particularattention to biomedical and medical applications and materials.Jan Torgersen is Professor of mechanical engineering at NTNU, Trondheim.He received his PhD from Vienna University of Technology, where he workedon high-resolution laser microfabrication of hydrogels for tissue engineering.He was pioneering in the work of processing hydrogel formulations at micronscale resolution in vivo, in the presence of living cells and whole organisms.He received a postdoctoral fellowship to work on a nanoscale vapor depositiontechnique called atomic layer deposition, allowing conformal coating ofthermally fragile and nanostructured substrates with atomically thin layers ofa wide range of materials. He contributed to the development of a selflimitingdeposition process for high-k materials for Dynamic Random AccessMemory (DRAM) applications. His current research interests are micro- andnanofabrication as well as surface functionalization, with particular focus onbiomedical applications.