Responsibilities and duties

Assistant Professor (2013-)
École des Mines, Saint-Etienne, France.
Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering, CNRS UMR 5307 (LGF)

Post-Doctoral Fellow (2011-2013)
Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria.
Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures

Research topics

  • Mines Saint-Étienne, France (2013-)
    – Developing a micro-mechanical modeling for arterial wall tissues

  • Vienna University of Technology, Austria (2011-2013)
    – Established universal rules governing the structure and composition of bony tissues
    – Developed a poro-micro-mechanical approach to predict the slow and fast wave velocities of bones
    – Developed a return-mapping algorithm for multiscale, multisurface elasto-plasticity to predict the strength of bones
  • ENSTA-Paristech, France (2008-2011)
    – Developed a constitutive law for shape memory alloys including phase change, thermo-mechanical coupling, tensile-compressive asymmetry and cyclic behavior
    – Developed a fatigue criterion, allowing to relate the number of cycles to failure to relevant thermo-mechanical quantities

Teaching areas

Primary Instructor

  • École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
    – Biomechanics of bones (Lecture/Recitation)
    – Biophysics of cells (Lecture/Recitation)
    – Basics of continuum mechanics (Lecture)
    – Continuum micromechanics (Lecture/Recitation)
  • Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    – Advanced macro and micromechanics (Recitation)

Teaching Assistant

  • ENSTA-Paristech, France
    – Fatigue and failure of materials (Recitation)
    – Active Materials (Lecture/Recitation)
  • École Polytechnique, France
    – Active Materials (Laboratory)
    – Numerical projects in mechanics (Numerical projects)
    – New materials for the mechanics and biology (Numerical projects)

Education

  • 2011
    École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
    Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering – Graduated with Highest Honors
    Dissertation: “A comprehensive approach for fatigue analysis of shape memory alloys”
    Awards from Ecole Polytechnique and the Académie de Marine for excellent dissertation
  • 2008
    Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France
    M.S., Advanced Methods for Computational Structural Mechanics
    Graduated with Highest Honors
  • 2008
    ENSTA-Paristech, Paris, France
    Diploma of Engineering (French license to practice engineering)
    Major courses in Mechanical Engineering