Professor at Mines Saint-Étienne and director of the SAINBIOSE joint research unit (INSERM U1059), Stéphane Avril was elected a member of the World Council of Biomechanics last July. This distinction signifies international recognition of his scientific career and his contributions to the field of biomechanics.
The World Council of Biomechanics (WCB) helps identify and promote major directions in biomechanics internationally, as well as foster exchanges between scientific communities in the field.
In this context, it coordinates the World Congress of Biomechanics, the main biomechanics congress, which brings together an international and interdisciplinary community of researchers every four years around the topics of:
- Mechanics of Biological Tissues
- Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics
- Biomedical Engineering
- Biomaterials
- Human Movement and Clinical Applications
Mines Saint-Étienne’s Excellence Highlighted
This election strengthens the international visibility of Mines Saint-Étienne and SAINBIOSE (INSERM U1059); the joint research unit directed by Stéphane Avril. It focuses particularly on cardiovascular biomechanics, through a multidisciplinary approach:
- Analysis of the Mechanical Behavior of Arteries
- Development of Experimental and Numerical Methods to Characterize Biological Tissues
- Construction of Personalized Biomechanical Models and Digital Twins to Improve the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases.
The excellence and complementarity of the solutions developed by SAINBIOSE (INSERM U1059) perfectly address the evolution of biomechanics, transformed by new imaging methods, artificial intelligence, multi-scale modeling, and digital twins.
Thus, for Stéphane Avril, “biomechanics is today a profoundly interdisciplinary field, at the interface between mechanics, biology, medicine, and digital technology. Being elected to the World Council of Biomechanics is both a recognition of the work accomplished and a responsibility: that of contributing to advancing our community and identifying new scientific directions that will bring biomechanics even closer to medical applications“.
The recognition of Stéphane Avril’s and SAINBIOSE’s (INSERM U1059) work highlights the research dynamic driven by Mines Saint-Étienne to address health issues.
