International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. Email: mcerrolaza@cimne.upc.edu M. Cerrolaza is Civil Engineer from the Central University of Venezuela. Currently he is Full Research Professor at the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (BarcelonaTech) and Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Founder and first director of the National Institute of Bioengineering (Venezuela). He coordinated/collaborated in RTD projects supported by the European Commission, the National Science Foundation and Spanish government. He has delivered many invited/plenary conferences and seminars and has taught courses in Finite Elements, Elasticity, Biomechanics and Continuum Mechanics. His research areas are computational biomechanics, numerical methods, bone remodeling, boundary elements