News – Martin Genet, Professor @ École Polytechnique

Forthcoming

2026/09: Seminar at the ∂’Alembert Institute (Sorbonne Université/CNRS), Paris, France.
2026/09/15-17: Chest MRI Advanced School, Aberdeen, Scotland.
2026/10/26-29: Oral presentation at the 13th PhotoMechanics conference, Paris, France.
2026/11/17-18: Plenary presentation at the 2026 NAFEMS France Conference, Senlis, France.

Past

(Scientific life is full of doubts and failure, the following list is heavily biased toward certainties and successes… Anyway, do not hesitate to subscribe via RSS or LinkedIn.)

Adrian Buganza Tepole visiting École Polytechnique

Adrian Buganza Tepole, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, is joining us as a Visiting Professor at École Polytechnique in the Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LMS). He will be visiting in two sessions, August 17–30 and then November 9–29, to further extend our collaboration around surrogate modeling…

Two papers nominated for the 2026 Richard Skalak Award!

Two of the lab’s recent publications have been selected as Editors’ Choice Papers and nominated for the 2026 Richard Skalak Award by the associate editors of the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering: - [Peyraut & Genet, 2025, Inverse Uncertainty Quantification for Personalized Biomechanical Modeling: Application to Pulmonary Poromechanical…

New paper on curl-based full field reconstruction

Nagham Chibli, Sébastien Imperial and I just published a paper in Inverse Problems entitled “Stability analysis of a new curl-based full field reconstruction method in 2D isotropic nearly-incompressible elasticity”, cf. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ae6d2e).

Winter/Spring 2026 US Seminar Tour

In the past couple of months I have had the chance to give seminars —entitled “Toward pulmonary digital twins: recent efforts in multiscale lung poromechanical modeling, motion tracking and parameter estimation using the equilibrium gap, model reduction using finite element neural networks”— in various universities across the East Coast and…

CSMA2026 (plenary talk!)

This week we attended the 17th national workshop on computational mechanics (my favorite conference!) in Giens (one of my favorite places places in the World!):

New paper on the virtual fields method

Nagham Chibli, Sébastien Imperial and I just published a paper in Comptes Rendus Mécanique entitled “A class of optimal virtual fields for inverse problems in elasticity”, cf. https://doi.org/10.5802/crmeca.361).

France Culture!

Today Alexandre Daby-Seesaram (former postdoc in the team, who just started as an Assistant Professor at ENSTA) talked about our efforts toward pulmonary digital twins on French National Radio during an interview on Guillaume Erner’s show “Les chantiers de la recherche”—one of my favorite radio shows, which I highly recommend to all French…

New York!

For the next six month I will be a Visiting Professor at Columbia, hosted by Gerard Ateshian as well as Kristin Myers and Adrian Buganza Tepole through the Alliance Program. I will be giving introductory seminars in various group meetings through January, and a full seminar at the Mechanical Engineering Department in February. I will also take…

New paper on pulmonary micro-poro-mechanics

Mahdi Manoochehrtayebi, Aline Bel-Brunon and I just published a paper in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering entitled “Micro-Poro-Mechanical Modeling of the Lung Parenchyma: Theoretical Modeling and Parameters Identification”, cf. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4070036 (editor shared link, HAL repository, preprint).

Uruguay!

This month I will be a Visiting Professor at the French-Uruguayan Institute for Mathematics and Interactions (IFUMI), a mixed entity of the Universidad de la República Uruguay (UdelaR) and CNRS, hosted by Franz Chouly. This week (06/11) I will give a seminar (Toward pulmonary digital twins: recent efforts in motion tracking using mechanical…

ICCB 2025

This week we attended the 11th International Conference on Computational Bioengineering (ICCB 2025) in Rome:

Finite Element Neural Network preprints are out!

Kateřina Škardová, Alexandre Daby-Seesaram and I just published two companion papers in Computational Mechanics entitled “Finite Element Neural Network Interpolation: I - Interpretable and Adaptive Discretization for Solving PDEs” (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-025-02677-3; ArXiv DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.05719) and “Finite…

New paper on Inverse Uncertainty Quantification

Alice Peyraut and I just published a paper in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (a journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME), entitled “Inverse Uncertainty Quantification for Personalized Biomechanical Modeling: Application to Pulmonary Poromechanical Digital Twins”, cf. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4068578 (HAL…

Texas!

For the next two weeks I will be a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center in Dallas, invited by Radomir Chabiniok and Tarique Hussain. This week I will give seminars at the Heart Center (Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Divisions) and Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine…

New paper on micro-poro-mechanics

Mahdi Manoochehrtayebi, Aline Bel-Brunon and I just published a paper in the International Journal of Solids and Structures entitled “Finite strain micro-poro-mechanics: formulation and compared analysis with macro-poro-mechanics”, cf. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2025.113354 (editor shared link, HAL repository).

Seminar @ School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow

Today I gave a seminar at the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Glasgow, entitled “Toward pulmonary digital twins: recent efforts in motion tracking using mechanical regularization, lung poromechanical modeling and estimation, model reduction using finite element neural networks”. I had the chance to meet many people from…

BMMB Editorial Board

I was invited by Gerhard Holzapfel & David Nordsletten (Editors-in-Chief) to be part of the Editorial Board of the Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology (BMMB) journal, cf. https://link.springer.com/journal/10237/editorial-board. I think this is a very good journal, and I am very happy to be a part of it!

Kick Off Meeting FHU Cournand

Today was the kick off meeting of the FHU (Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire, i.e., University Hospital Federation) André Cournand (French-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1956 for the development of cardiac catheterization) “Transforming Pulmonary Vascular Medicine”.

DTE & AICOMAS 2025

This week we attended the 3rd IACM Digital Twins in Engineering Conference (DTE 2025) & 1st ECCOMAS Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods in Applied Science (AICOMAS 2025) in Paris:

New review paper on lung poromechanical modeling for clinical application

Ever wondered “What is personalized lung poromechanical modeling and how can it improve the understanding and management of fibrotic interstitial lung diseases?” This is the question the Editor of Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine asked my colleague Dr. Pierre-Yves Brillet. And this is our best attempt at answering the question: [Brillet…

New paper on direct model parameter identification

Did you ever dream of identifying model parameters from images without running the model itself? This is possible!

New review paper on digital twins for chronic lung diseases

Together with Apolline Gonsard (University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades) & David Drummond (University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades/Université Paris Cité/INSERM/INRIA), we just published a review paper on “Digital twins for chronic lung diseases” in European Respiratory Review, cf. https://doi.org/10.1183/16000617.0159-2024.

Alice Peyraut defends her PhD thesis

Today Alice Peyraut successfully defended her PhD thesis! Jury was composed of:

New preprints on Finite Element Neural Network!

Together with Kateřina Škardová and Alexandre Daby-Seesaram we just submitted for publication two papers on “Finite Element Neural Network Interpolation”: Part I is on “Interpretable and Adaptive Discretization for Solving PDEs” and Part II on “Hybridisation with the Proper Generalised Decomposition for non-linear surrogate modelling”. Both…

“Art of Healing, Science of Understanding” Workshop

Today I gave a short course on “Mechanics of Hard and Soft Tissues” at INRIA Paris, for the “L’Art de Soigner, la Science de Comprendre” workshop of the GdR MécaBioSanté. Every year, this workshop is held right before the GdR annual workshop (which this year will be held in Metz, starting tomorrow!), to offer some basic training in mechanics to…

PM-iDICs 2024

This week I attended the 2024 PM-iDICs conference, and presented recent work on the use of the equilibrium gap principle for regularizing the motion tracking problem [Genet, 2023, Comptes Rendus Mécanique], and for the direct estimation of model parameters from full field measurement (joint work with Alice Peyraut, to appear), in the “Mathematics…

New paper on lung modeling

Alice Peyraut and I just published a paper in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology (BMMB), introducing new boundary conditions for our lung model, including gravity and more physiological pleural pressure distributions, cf. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-024-01876-w (editor shared link, HAL repository). As usual now all computations from…

Haotian Xiao joins the team

Haotian Xiao, who graduated from École Centrale de Pékin (China) and holds a Master from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC, France), just started his PhD in the team. Funded by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IPP) doctoral school, he will work on adding the pulmonary circulation to our lung model, in collaboration with Laurent…

VPH2024

This week we are attending the 2024 Virtual Physiological Human Conference (VPH2024):

Felipe Álvarez-Barrientos joins the team

Felipe Álvarez-Barrientos, who holds a Master of Science in Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, just started his PhD in the team. He already visited MΞDISIM twice, for his Master thesis and Engineering internship, and together we published a paper on micro-poro-mechanics. His PhD is funded by the European…

New website!

New website! It is based on the awesome Quarto framework. Do not hesitate to subscribe via RSS or on LinkedIn where I will be dispatching new posts.

Nouvel article sur les jumeaux numériques dans Les Échos

Je viens de publier un article sur les jumeaux numériques en santé dans Les Échos: https://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/jumeaux-numeriques-la-modelisation-dorganes-espoir-de-la-medecine-2110146 (le texte complet est disponible ici: https://sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/H8aaHJoQgjiee6H).

Keynote speaker @ RT Math-Bio-Santé

Today I, as an envoy from the GdR Méca-Bio-Santé (https://gdr-mecabio-sante.cnrs.fr), gave a keynote lecture on the team’s efforts on “multiscale modeling and estimation of lung poromechanics” during the RT Math-Bio-Santé (https://math-bio-sante.math.cnrs.fr) 2024 workshop organized at the Henri Lebesgue Center for Mathematics in Nantes (https://w…

CSMA2024

This week we are attending the 16th national workshop on computational mechanics (https://csma2024.sciencesconf.org) in Giens (one of the most beautiful places in France!):

Mahdi Manoochehrtayebi defends his PhD thesis

Today Mahdi Manoochehrtayebi defended his PhD thesis! Jury was composed of:

Four teaching positions are available in the Mechanics Department of École Polytechnique

Four teaching positions are available in the Mechanics Department of École Polytechnique, including one full-time faculty position (Assistant Professor) in Bio-materials! See https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-charkaluk-99170965_postes-ouverts-au-d%C3%A9partement-de-m%C3%A9canique-activity-7160643818109734914-AdlQ for more details.

New paper on mechanical regularization for motion tracking

I (with the help of Philippe Moireau and Patrick Le Tallec) just introduced a new formulation of the equilibrium gap principle in the context of finite element motion tracking, cf. https://doi.org/10.5802/crmeca.228! The code is available online (https://gitlab.inria.fr/mgenet/dolfin_warp), and there are even freely available Jupyter notebooks to…

Alexandre Daby-Seesaram joins the team

Alexandre Daby-Seesaram, who recently defended his PhD at the Paris-Saclay Mechanics Laboratory of École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay, is starting as a postdoc in the team. He is funded by our recent ANR MLQ-CT project, and will work on model reduction and porting our digital twin pipeline to the clinical environment of our clinical…

Keynote speaker @ BIOREME Network Conference 2024

I will be a keynote speaker at the BIOREME (Biophysical Modelling in Respiratory Medicine) Network Conference 2024, which will be held in Nottingham, UK, next January—it is still time to register so do not hesitate to do so if you are interested in pulmonary biomechanical modeling!

GdR MécaBioSanté

This week we are taking part to the MécaBioSanté GdR annual workshop, this year at INSA-Lyon:

MORTech 2023

Kateřina Škardová and I are attending MORTech 2023 (6th International Workshop on Model Reduction Techniques) at Laboratoire de Mécanique de Paris-Saclay (LMPS), École Normale Supérieur de Paris-Saclay (ENSPS), to learn about current trends in model reduction methods—we even met a future member of the team (more on that soon)!

SB2023

We are present this week at the 48th Congress of the Francophone Society of Biomechanics:

Kateřina Škardová joins the team

Kateřina Škardová, who recently defended her PhD at the Department of Mathematics of Czech Technical University in Prague, is starting as a postdoc in the team. She already visited us during her PhD, notably to work on motion tracking and published a conference paper on the subject. Her postdoc is funded by a E4H Postdoctoral Fellowship, which…

I was just promoted Professor at École Polytechnique!

E4H Forum

Today we were present at the second E4H forum:

New paper on reduced left ventricular dynamics modeling based on a cylindrical assumption

Together with Jérôme Diaz, Dominique Chapelle & Philippe Moireau, we just introduced a new —intermediate— level in the MΞDISIM team team’s cardiac model hierarchy (3D & reduced “spherical” model) with a reduced “cylindrical” model: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3711

CMBBE2023

This week we are present at the 18th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering:

New paper on the structural origin of the anisotropy in the myocardium: Multiscale modeling and analysis

Nicole Tueni, Jean-Marc Allain and I just published a paper in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials.

GdR MécaBioSanté

This week we are taking part to the MécaBioSanté GdR annual workshop: Mahdi Manoochehrtayebi presented his PhD work on multiscale modeling of the lung parenchyma, and I chaired a session on biomechanics of soft tissues. Looking forward to next year’s meeting!

(Closed) PhD position on Modeling and Estimation of Pulmonary Dynamics

Context & Objectives The lungs are the primary organs of the respiratory system in humans and many animals, responsible for molecular exchanges between external air and internal blood through mechanical ventilation. They have an extraordinary complex architecture, with the inherent fractal structure of the bronchial and blood vessel trees, as…