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Forthcoming

  • Winter-Spring 2026: Invited Professor (hosted by Gerard Ateshian through the Alliance Program) at Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.

  • 2026/06/29 - 07/03: Lecturer at the CISM courses on “Mechanics of the Deep Lung”, Udine, Italy.

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Texas!

For the next two weeks I will be a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center in…
May 25, 2025

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 …
May 6, 2025

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…
Mar 27, 2025

BMMB Editorial Board

I was invited by Gerhard Holzapfel & David Nordsletten (Editors-in-Chief) to be part of the Editorial Board of the…
Mar 24, 2025

Kick Off Meeting FHU Cournand

Today was the kick off meeting of the FHU (Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire, i.e., University Hospital Federation) André…
Mar 12, 2025

DTE & AICOMAS 2025

This week we attended the 3rd IACM Digital Twins in Engineering Conference (DTE 2025) & 1st ECCOMAS Artificial Intelligence…
Feb 21, 2025

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…
Feb 10, 2025

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!
Jan 22, 2025

New review paper on digital twins for chronic lung diseases

Together with Apolline Gonsard (University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades) & David Drummond (University Hospital…
Dec 20, 2024

Alice Peyraut defends her PhD thesis

Today Alice Peyraut successfully defended her PhD thesis! Jury was composed of:
Dec 19, 2024

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…
Dec 11, 2024

“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…
Dec 2, 2024

PM-iDICs 2024

This week I attended the 2024 PM-iDICs conference, and presented recent work on the use of the equilibrium gap principle…
Nov 1, 2024

New paper on lung modeling

Alice Peyraut and I just published a paper in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology (BMMB), introducing new boundary…
Oct 7, 2024

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…
Oct 1, 2024

VPH2024

This week we are attending the 2024 Virtual Physiological Human Conference (VPH2024):
Sep 6, 2024

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…
Sep 2, 2024
 

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…
Sep 1, 2024

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/edit…
Jul 26, 2024

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…
Jun 27, 2024

CSMA2024

This week we are attending the 16th national workshop on computational mechanics (https://csma2024.sciencesconf.org) in…
May 17, 2024

Mahdi Manoochehrtayebi defends his PhD thesis

Today Mahdi Manoochehrtayebi defended his PhD thesis! Jury was composed of:
Mar 5, 2024
 

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…
Feb 7, 2024

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…
Jan 31, 2024

Alexandre Daby-Seesaram joins the team

Alexandre Daby-Seesaram, who recently defended his PhD at the Paris-Saclay Mechanics Laboratory of École Normale Supérieure…
Jan 1, 2024
 

Keynote speaker @ BIOREME Network Conference 2024

I will be a keynote speaker at the BIOREME (Biophysical Modelling in Respiratory Medicine) Network Conference 2024, which…
Dec 12, 2023
 

GdR MécaBioSanté

This week we are taking part to the MécaBioSanté GdR annual workshop, this year at INSA-Lyon:
Dec 1, 2023

MORTech 2023

Kateřina Škardová and I are attending MORTech 2023 (6th International Workshop on Model Reduction Techniques) at…
Nov 24, 2023
 

SB2023

We are present this week at the 48th Congress of the Francophone Society of Biomechanics:
Oct 25, 2023

Kateřina Škardová joins the team

Kateřina Škardová, who recently defended her PhD at the Department of Mathematics of Czech Technical University in Prague…
Oct 1, 2023
 

I was just promoted Professor at École Polytechnique!

Aug 31, 2023

E4H Forum

Today we were present at the second E4H forum:
Jul 5, 2023

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 MΞDIS…
May 23, 2023
 

CMBBE2023

This week we are present at the 18th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering:
May 3, 2023

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…
Dec 12, 2022
 

GdR MécaBioSanté

This week we are taking part to the MécaBioSanté GdR annual workshop: Mahdi Manoochehrtayebi presented his PhD work on…
Dec 2, 2022
 

(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…
Nov 22, 2022

New paper on quantification of left ventricular strain and torsion by joint analysis of 3D tagging and cine MR images

Together with Ezgi Berberoğlu we just published a paper in Medical Image Analysis, in collaboration with Christian Stoeck an…
Aug 30, 2022

Round table @ E4H Forum

Today I shared some views on the future of pulmonology during a round table with Olaf Mercier (Hôpital Marie Lannelongue -…
Jul 6, 2022

CMBE2022

This week Mahdi Manoochehrtayebi and I presented work on the lung at the 7th International Conference on Computational and…
Jun 29, 2022

Today I defended my Habilitation thesis

Today I defended my habilitation thesis, entitled “Some contributions to cardiac and pulmonary biomechanical modeling…
Jun 21, 2022

Microstructural imaging @ SOLEIL synchrotron

Jean-Marc Allain & I (with the help of Anne-Gaëlle Eveno) are currently making microstructural images of hearts and lungs…
Jun 1, 2022

Ezgi Berberoğlu defends her PhD

Today Ezgi Berberoğlu defended her thesis at the ETH Zurich, from Istanbul and in front of a jury spread across California…
Mar 9, 2022
 

SB2021

Next week I will be presenting some collaborative work with Nicole Tueni and Jean-Marc Allain on the origin of the…
Oct 22, 2021
 

CMBBE

This week I will be presenting some collaborative work with Cécile Patte and Dominique Chapelle on Personalized Pulmonary…
Sep 6, 2021
 

Alice Peyraut joins the team

Alice Peyraut, who graduated from the Technological University of Belfort-Montbéliard, is just starting her PhD (funded by…
Sep 1, 2021
 

Nicole Tueni defends her PhD

Today Nicole Tueni defended her thesis! Jury was composed of:
Jul 1, 2021
 

Colin Laville joins the team

Colin Laville, an engineer from INSA Hauts-de-France (Valenciennes, France) with a PhD from CEMEF, Mines ParisTech &…
Mar 1, 2021

(Closed) PhD position on Modeling and Estimation of Lung Poromechanics

Context & Objectives The lungs are the primary organs of the respiratory system in humans and many animals, responsible for…
Jan 4, 2021

Cécile Patte defends her PhD

Today Cécile Patte defended her thesis! Reviewers of the thesis were:
Dec 18, 2020
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