PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. 18+ years building biomechanics labs across Latin America.
Francesco Paez Cian is a Biomedical Engineer, born in Bogotá, Colombia, on October 5, 1977. He attended the Italian School in Bogotá and, intrigued by how mechanisms and machines worked, pursued Mechanical Engineering at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá.
His undergraduate thesis focused on the feasibility of using a suspension system to dampen gait with a short plaster cast. The research was conducted at the Biomechanics Laboratory of the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center of Colombia (CIREC), where he achieved the highest grade of 5.0 out of 5.0. The study was presented at the National Orthopedic Congress in Colombia in 2003, earning third place in the scientific poster category. Francesco continued as Laboratory Coordinator at CIREC until 2004.
In 2004, he traveled to Spain and Italy to pursue personalized biomechanics courses, and in 2005 began a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano under Prof. Carlo Frigo — learning the essential role of engineering in studying the human body and its practical applications in orthopedics and rehabilitation. During his PhD, Francesco presented at various European motion analysis conferences.
Recognizing the scarcity of biomechanical technology across Latin America at the time, and combining that observation with his PhD training, Francesco returned to Colombia in 2008 and founded Biomec — a company dedicated to providing technology for the study of the human body.
Biomec has not only contributed to Colombia but to Latin America as a whole, partnering with nine specialized companies in motion analysis for rehabilitation and sports. The company has installed more than 75 biomechanics laboratories in universities and rehabilitation centers across the region — a foundation for the development of the field in Latin America.
While running Biomec, Francesco also taught as a Biomechanics professor from 2008 to 2009 at the University of Los Andes (Faculty of Biomedical Engineering), and from 2009 to 2015 lectured on Sports Biomechanics in the postgraduate Sports Medicine program at El Bosque University.
In 2010, Francesco founded Ortomec, a company specialized in manufacturing personalized insoles using advanced technology. Ortomec has built a network of over 75 satellite locations across Colombia for custom insole manufacturing. Over eight years it has served more than 12,000 patients, producing over 60,000 pairs of insoles — both for pathological cases and for healthy athletes seeking performance gains, including several of Colombia’s top global and Olympic-level athletes in tennis, athletics, cycling, triathlon, squash, and golf.
In 2016, driven by a passion for sports and leveraging his biomechanics expertise, Francesco became a certified Bikefitter in Spain. This enabled him to provide biomechanical analysis services for cyclists, both amateur and professional. He also acquired a laboratory for the biomechanical analysis of medium and long-distance runners (Running Analysis) — at the time, the only 3D biomechanical technology facility in Colombia focused on private sports performance.
Late in 2017, Francesco founded TRITECH, the first high-performance center in Colombia designed for triathletes, runners, cyclists, and swimmers seeking a quantified, precise, objective, and secure training environment.
Through Biomec, Ortomec, and TRITECH, Francesco Paez has solidified his life’s purpose of serving people with disabilities and athletes at every level to improve their mobility and performance.
Whether you’re equipping a university lab, a clinical practice, or a performance center, Francesco and his team bring 18+ years of real-world biomechanics expertise to your project.