Felippe Prado
Associate Professor
Department of Morphology and Anatomy
University of Campinas
Graduated in Dentistry from the Faculty of Dentistry of the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (2003), Master's (2009) and Ph.D. (2010) in Biology and Oral-Dental Pathology, area of Anatomy, from the Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba, State University of Campinas (FOP-UNICAMP), specialization in Forensic Dentistry (2009), Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba, State University of Campinas. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Morphology, Area of Anatomy, at the Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba, State University of Campinas (FOP-UNICAMP). He held a postdoctoral internship at the Department Of Organismal Biology And Anatomy-University of Chicago in Chicago-IL – USA (2016).
He has experience in the following subjects: Skull Biomechanics, Mechanobiology, Forensic Anatomy and Finite Element Method, Bone repair and Dental reimplantation.
Research Interests:
My research program focuses on the biomechanics of the skull. Specifically Professor Callum F Ross (University of Chicago) and I are involved in a collaborative research project with a number of physical anthropologists to develop finite element models of human and non-human primate skulls and use them to test hypotheses about determinants Functions of the shape of the skull. This will include analyzes of fossil hominids.
I am also involved with professors Ana Claudia Rossi, Alexandre Rodrigues Freire and Roberta Okamoto in the study of bone repair associated with implant placement and systemic variables in rats.