Sara Roccabianca

Endowed Professors College of Engineering

• Marvin L. VanDerPloeg Endowed Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering
• Established through a gift from alumnus Martin J. Vanderploeg

• Mechanical Engineering

Bio

Dr. Sara Roccabianca is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, where her research focuses on integrating experiments with modeling of the biomechanics of soft tissues to better understand the role played by mechanical stimuli (physical forces and deformations) in biological processes.