Prof. Stéphane Avril

Research Coordinator of the MeDiTATe project

Distinguished Full Professor at ARMINES and co-founder of Predisurge, has a strong mechanics and biomechanics background as a scientist and as an entrepreneur. He has a long mentoring experience as a Professor of soft tissue biomechanics and as director of the center for biomedical and healthcare engineering at ARMINES. In total he advised or co-advised more than 25 PhD students and mentored 10 post-docs. Teaching and mentoring experience of Stéphane Avril extends to the organization of summer or advanced school in soft tissue biomechanics (he organized 2 advanced schools of the International Center for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) in 2015 and 2017. He guides ESR 07 and ESR 08 in view of his strong expertise in computational biomechanics and supports ESR 03, ESR 10, ESR 13 and ESR 14 for all the advanced biomechanics related topics.