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Temperature Modulation Of Skin Tolerance To Applied Mechanical Loading And Shear

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Davide Filingeri BSc, MSc, PGCAP, PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Davide’s original research programme investigates:
  • i) the biophysical and physiological mechanisms that allow humans to sense changes in the temperature and wetness of their skin.
  • ii) the role of these mechanisms in body temperature regulation and the initiation of thermal behaviours.
Connect with Davide

Email: D.Filingeri@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Pete Worsley

Professor

Research interests

  • Skin and Soft Tissue Health
  • Bioengineering
  • Healthcare Technologies
Connect with Pete

Email: P.R.Worsley@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Skin Sensing Research Group

Our research explores skin health and comfort using sensing technologies. We improve medical devices and wearable products to increase quality of life, patient safety and health outcomes.

Research outputs

An evaluation of the effects of localised skin cooling on microvascular, inflammatory, structural, and perceptual responses to sustained mechanical loading of the sacrum: a study protocol
Ralph Gordon, Pete Worsley & Davide Filingeri, 2024, PLoS ONE, 19(5 May)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0303342
Type: article
Thermal modulation of skin friction at the finger pad
Alessandro Valenza, Konrad Rykaczewski, Daniel M. Martinez , Antonino Bianco, Silvia Caggiari, Peter Worsley & Davide Filingeri, 2023, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 146
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2023.106072
Type: article