Jérôme MOLIMARD

  • Responsibilities and Duties

    Co-director of “Science, Engineering, Health” Doctoral School

  • Skills

    Experimental mechanics / Soft tissues biomechanics / Medical Device / Tribology

  • Research Topics

    Intéraction of textile-based medical devices and human body
    On-going projects:
    . Capture and Modelling of the Shod Foot in Motion (coll. INRIA Alps, funding ANR)
    . Mechanical Characterization of Orthotics: Application to Lumbar Belts in Low Back Pain (Coll. IMT Albi, CHU-SE, L&R)
    . Subcutaneous modeling: in vitro and in silico approaches (Coll. Nemera)
    . Digital signatures of the forearm cardiovascular system (Coll. CEA)
    . EPAD-C2 – Understanding the measurement of girdle dissociation in falls in the elderly. Case-control study (Coll. CHU)

  • Teaching Areas

    Master level:
    . Experimental methods
    . Biomechanics
    . Medical Devices and sensors

    SIS doctoral school:
    . Experimental mechanics

  • Education

    1994: Master of Engineering, Master of Mechanics, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
    1999: PhD in Mechanics, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon – dir. L. Flamand, Ph. Vergne
    2007: Habilitation, Université Jean Monnet

  • Career History

    1994-1996: Alternative civilian service, Univ. Joseph Fourier
    1996-1999: Junior engineer, Institut de Recherche sur la Sidérurgie, Maizières-lès-Metz
    1999: Junior engineer, INSAVALOR, Lyon
    2000-2011: Assistant professor, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, Mines Saint-Etienne
    depuis 2011: Full professor, Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering, Mines Saint-Etienne

  • Main Publications

    Book:
    . J Molimard, Experimental mechanics of solids and structures, John Wiley & Sons, 2016
    . J Molimard, Biomedical devices and sensors, Wiley, 2024

  • Distinctions

    . Knight’s title in the Order of the Academic Palms, Jan 2018
    . Hetteny Award for the best publication, Society for Experimental Mechanics, Jun 2011

173 documents

  • M. Hartl, I. Krupka, R. Poliscuk, M. Liska, Jérôme Molimard, et al.. Thin Film Colorimetric Interferometry. Tribology Transactions, 2001, 44 (2), pp.270-276. ⟨10.1080/10402000108982458⟩. ⟨hal-00516306⟩
  • J Molimard, M Querry, P Vergne. Lubricant rheology in real conditions: measurements and confrontation with a ball/disk contact. Revue de Métallurgie, 2001, 98 (2), pp.141+. ⟨10.1051/metal:2001167⟩. ⟨hal-04713862⟩
  • J Molimard, M Querry, P Vergne. New tools for the experimental study of EHD and limit lubrications. LUBRICATION AT THE FRONTIER: THE ROLE OF THE INTERFACE AND SURFACE LAYERS IN THE THIN FILM AND BOUNDARY REGIME, Sep 1998, SARA BURGERHARTSTRAAT 25, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, Netherlands. pp.717-726, ⟨10.1016/S0167-8922(99)80090-X⟩. ⟨hal-04714028⟩