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

  • Nicolas Kroupa, Baptiste Pierrat, Woo-Suck Han, Sylvain Grange, Florian Bergandi, et al.. Bone Position and Ligament Deformations of the Foot From CT Images to Quantify the Influence of Footwear in ex vivo Feet. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020, 8, ⟨10.3389/fbioe.2020.00560⟩. ⟨hal-02929904⟩
  • Víctor A. Acosta Santamaría, María Flechas García, Jérôme Molimard, Stéphane Avril. Characterization of chemoelastic effects in arteries using digital volume correlation and optical coherence tomography. Acta Biomaterialia, 2020, 102, pp.127-137. ⟨10.1016/j.actbio.2019.11.049⟩. ⟨hal-04826080⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, Rébecca Bonnaire, Woo Suck Han, Reynald Convert, Paul Calmels. In-silico pre-clinical trials are made possible by a new simple and comprehensive lumbar belt mechanical model based on the Law of Laplace including support deformation and adhesion effects. PLoS ONE, 2019, 14 (3), pp.e0212681. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0212681⟩. ⟨emse-04809894⟩
  • Fanette Chassagne, Emilie Benoist, Pierre Badel, Reynald Convert, Laurence Schacher, et al.. Characterization of Fabric-to-Fabric Friction: Application to Medical Compression Bandages. Autex Research Journal, 2019, ⟨10.2478/aut-2019-0050⟩. ⟨hal-02380169⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, Rébecca Bonnaire, Woo Suck Han, Reynald Convert, Paul Calmels. In-silico pre-clinical trials are made possible by a new simple and comprehensive lumbar belt mechanical model based on the Law of Laplace including support deformation and adhesion effects. PLoS ONE, 2019, 14 (3), pp.e0212681. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0212681⟩. ⟨hal-02081560⟩
  • Rébecca Bonnaire, Woo-Suck Han, Paul Calmels, Reynald Convert, Jérôme Molimard. Parametric Study of Lumbar Belts in the Case of Low Back Pain: Effect of Patients’ Specific Characteristics. MICCAI 2019 - 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, Oct 2019, Shenzhen, China. p.43-59, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-15923-8_4⟩. ⟨hal-02324625⟩
  • Víctor Andrès Acosta-Santamaría, María Flechas García, Jérôme Molimard, Stéphane Avril. Characterization of chemoelastic effects in arteries using digital volume correlation and optical coherence tomography. Acta Biomaterialia, 2019, ⟨10.1016/j.actbio.2019.11.049⟩. ⟨hal-02405884⟩
  • Cristina Cavinato, Jérome Molimard, Nicolas Curt, Salvatore Campisi, Laurent Orgéas, et al.. Does the Knowledge of the Local Thickness of Human Ascending Thoracic Aneurysm Walls Improve Their Mechanical Analysis?. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2019, 7, ⟨10.3389/fbioe.2019.00169⟩. ⟨hal-02377467⟩
  • David Wheeler, Jérôme Molimard, Nicolas Devaux, David Philippon, Nicolas Fillot, et al.. A Generalized Differential Colorimetric Interferometry Method: Extension to the Film Thickness Measurement of Any Point Contact Geometry. Tribology Transactions, 2018, 61 (4), pp.648 - 660. ⟨10.1080/10402004.2017.1386809⟩. ⟨hal-01832680⟩
  • Fanette Chassagne, Jérôme Molimard, Reynald Convert, Pascal Giraux, Pierre Badel. Numerical Model Reduction for the Prediction of Interface Pressure Applied by Compression Bandages on the Lower Leg. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2018, 65 (2), pp.449-457. ⟨10.1109/TBME.2017.2774598⟩. ⟨hal-02318360⟩