Veera Venkata Satya Varaprasad Jakka completed his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India in 2014. He then pursued his Master's from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Mechanical Design in 2017. His master's thesis entitled "Characterization of composite laminates interlaminar toughness" to study the influence of toughening interleaving mats on the behavior of autoclave cured composite laminates.  An extensive experimental campaign was performed to assess properties of both reference and interleaved materials. In particular, tensile tests, in-plane shear tests, fatigue tests, tests on interlaminar properties (ILSS, DCB, ENF), compression after impact tests (CAI) were carried out. Tests were performed on room temperature, high temperature and wet conditions. The experimental results are validated with FE simulations.  After that he worked as a Mechanical Design Engineer in the National Research Council in Milan, Italy.

He then worked as a Ph.D. Researcher at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. His Ph.D. reserach is based on Fininte element simulations of mechanical behaviour of endothelial cells. The initial phase of his research involved FE simulations with experimental validations, resulting in publication in the journal "Biomed Research International" (Impact Factor: 3.24 - Q2). The subsequent phase focused on the phsiological loads of an endothelial cells by combining a hybrid structural model of the cell with a macroscopic model of artery. The findings investigated the impact of pulsating blood pressure on cyclic deformations of the nucleus, which increase substantially with decreasing axial pre-stretch of the cell and the importance of relatively low shear stresses in the cell response and nucleus deformation. This work was published on the journal "Computers in Biology and Medicine" (Impact Factor: 7.7 - Q1). The final segment of his Ph.D. research employed a continuum mechanics approach to simulate cell-substrate decohesion. Debonding of the cell-substrate interface under cyclic strech of the substrate was studied by using cohesive zone method. The prepartion of manuscript is in progress.  During his Ph.D. research, he has successfully finished two internships abroad (One at "The Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France"  and the other one at "Swansea University, UK"). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in May 2021. Then he worked as a Development Engineer (FE models) in Automobile industry.

He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Team at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. He is working for Bone strength project “analysis for osteoporosis management and fracture prevention (BONE STRENGTH - CPP2021-008574)”. His research is primarily concentrated on developing the open-source solver "MoFEM" (Mesh-Oriented Finite Element Methods) for bone computational biomechanics, in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, UK. This involves integrating MoFEM with existing 3D-Shaper modeling methods and an automated finite element analyses (FEA) module to predict femur strength.

Publications:

1.  Bansod Y.D., Jakka Veera V.S.V.P., and Burša J. “Bendo-tensegrity model simulates compression test of animal cell”. 24th International Conference on
Engineering Mechanics, Svratka, Czech Republic, May 14 –17, 2018, pp. 45–48, doi:10.21495/91-8-45.
2. Veera Venkata Satya Varaprasad Jakka, Jiří Burša. Computational Modeling of Mechanical Behaviour of Endothelial Cells”. 26th Cytoskeletal Club, Vranovská Ves, May 19-21, 2019.
3. Veera Venkata Satya Varaprasad Jakka, Jiří Burša.. Finite element models of mechanical behaviour of endothelial cells. Engineering Mechanics 2020. 2020. p. 222-225. ISBN: 978-80-214-5896-3.
4. Veera Venkata Satya Varaprasad Jakka, Jiri Bursa, "Finite Element Simulations of Mechanical Behaviour of Endothelial Cells", BioMed Research International , vol. 2021, ArticleID 8847372, 17 pages, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/8847372
5. Veera Venkata Satya Varaprasad Jakka, Jiri Bursa, “Impact of physiological loads of arterial wall on nucleus deformation in endothelial cells: A computational study”, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Volume 143, 2022, 105266, ISSN 0010-4825, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105266.
6. Veera Venkata Satya Varaprasad Jakka, Lucie Orlova and Jiří Burša. (2022). “Computational modelling of cell response to various mechanical stimuli”.
27th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, June 26-29, Porto, Portugal.
7.  V V S Varaprasad Jakka, Callum J. Runcie, Ignatios Athanasiadis, Andrei G. Shvarts, Łukasz, Kaczmarczyk, Carlos Ruiz Wills, Ludovic Humbert, Jérôme Noailly “Femur Computational Biomechanics using MoFEM: Implementation, and Applications”. 29th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, June 30 – July 3, 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Teaching Experiences:

• Strength of Materials 1
• Strength of Materials 2

Software’s:

• Proficient in simulation software’s Abaqus, ANSYS, and MoFEM.
• Proficient in design software’s Solid works, CREO, Inventor, CATIA, AutoCAD

Programming Languages: 
• C, C + +, Fortran, MATLAB, LISP, Delphi, and Python
Tools:
• MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Operate Systems:
•Windows 10/8/7, server, Mac
IT Skills:
•Self-installations of engineering software’s, Active directories, Data bases.