Salvatore received his Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) degree and completed his doctoral research at the University of Palermo. In 2006, he was a visiting scholar at the University of South Carolina and later joined Fondazione Ri.MED in 2009. He spent three years in the Vascular Bioengineering Laboratory, directed by Dr. David A. Vorp, PhD, at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine of the University of Pittsburgh. In 2012, he returned to Palermo and worked at the IRCCS ISMETT organ transplant institute, where he coordinated the cardiovascular engineering program. 

In 2019, Salvatore became a professor at the University of Palermo while maintaining a second affiliation as a researcher at IRCCS ISMETT.

Salvatore's track record includes more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published in clinical and bioengineering journals (according to Scopus). His role has been recognized through awards as a Principal Investigator from both public (Italian Ministry of Health, H2020) and private funding bodies (e.g., Edwards and Fondazione Ri.MED), securing more than 2 million euros in funding over the past 10 years.

Expertise

• Finite-element (Ansys, Abaqus), CFD (Fluent, FlowVision), FSI (LS-Dyna, MpCCI)

• biaxial and uniaxial testing

• multiphoton imaging

• PIV, DIC