Fabio Galbusera, engineer, is affiliated with the spine research group at the Schulthess Clinic in Zürich, Switzerland. He has been the director of the Laboratory of Biological Structures Mechanics at IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan. His main research interests are the biomechanics of the spine, the use of numerical models for its investigation as well as spinal imaging, about which he published more than 130 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS), of the Spine Society of Europe (Eurospine), of AO Spine and is currently part of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Biomechanics, European Spine Journal, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, and of European Radiology Experimental.