CURRICULUM VITAE STEPHANE AVRIL

 

 

Professor Stéphane Avril, born 9 August 1976

Address: SAINBIOSE INSERM U1059

Centre Ingénierie et Santé, Mines Saint-Étienne, 158 cours Fauriel, 42023 Saint-Etienne, France.

Phone: +334 77 42 01 88

 

Degrees

2007: Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France.

2002: PhD with honors in mechanical and civil engineering, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Saint-Etienne, France.

1999: Engineering Graduate School, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Saint-Étienne, France.

1999: MSc with honors in mechanical and civil engineering, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France.

1998: Bachelor in mathematics, University of Saint-Etienne, France.

 

Positions

2021-2022: Guest Professor, Technische Universität Graz, Austria.

2020-2022: Guest Professor, Technische Universität Wien, Austria.

2019 (July-August): Visiting Professor, Yale University, USA.

2018 (July-August): Visiting Professor, Yale University, USA.

2018 (June): Visiting Professor, University of Santiago de Chile, Chile.

2017 (July-August): Visiting Professor, Yale University, USA.

Since 2017: Professeur de Classe exceptionnelle, Mines St-Etienne, France.

2016 (April-May & October-November): Visiting Professor, Yale University, USA.

Since 2014: Professeur de première classe, Mines St-Etienne, France.

2014 (May- August): Visiting Professor, Yale University, USA.

Since 2010: Full Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, St-Etienne, France.

2008 (July-August): Visiting Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

2008-2010: Associate Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, St-Etienne.

2006 (January-September): Visiting Scholar, Loughborough University, UK

2002-2007: Assistant Professor, Arts et Métiers Paris Tech, France.

 

Responsabilities

2012: Chair of the international symposium: Advanced experimental approaches and inverse problems in tissue biomechanics, Saint-Etienne (France): https://euromech534.emse.fr/

Since 2016: Deputy-director of the U1059 INSERM research laboratory (150 people): https://sainbiose.univ-st-etienne.fr/fr/index.html

2010-2020: Director of the Center for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering (70 people): https://www.mines-stetienne.fr/en/research/5-research-academic-centers/center-biomedical-healthcare-engineering/ 

2016: cochair of the European Society of Biomechanics, Lyon (France), with 800 delegates: https://esbiomech.org/conference/archive/2016lyon/about.php

2017: cofounder of the spin-off company Predisurge (www.predisurge.com) proposing a preoperative planning service designed to validate and customize the choice of the stent-graft depending on the patient. This service is based on the results of our research which lead to the innovative technology of predictive and patient-specific numerical simulation. In 2021, Predisurge employs 20 collaborators.

2020: Series editor in Bioengineering at ISTE Science Publishing Ltd.

2021: Co-chair of the international Euromech colloquium: Current challenges in soft tissue mechanics, Frankfurt (Germany)

2022: Elected Member at the Specialized Scientific Committee of INSERM in Health Technology

 

Editorial boards

2022: member of the editorial board of Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

2022: guest editor for Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

2020: guest editor for Frontiers in Medical Technology

2019-now: member of the editorial board of Modelling in Biology and Medicine

2019-now: member of the editorial board of Frontiers in Medical Technology

2015-now: member of the editorial board of Strain

2016: guest editor for Strain

2013: guest editor for Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

2011: guest editor for Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

 

 

Distinctions & Honors

- Rhône Alpes council CIBLE2008 grant laureate (2008)

- ANR Young Investigator grant laureate (2008)

- Rhône Alpes council CMIRA travel grant laureate (2014)

- British Society for strain Measurement 50th Anniversary Plenary Speaker (2014)

- ESB best poster award (2015)

- ERC consolidator grant laureate (2015)

- Editor’s Choice Paper Finalist – ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (2016)

- ICCB best communication award (2017)

- Victoire de l’Innovation Le Progrès (2018)

- Wolfgang Pauli fellow (2020)

- Elected Member (2022-2027) at the Specialized Scientific Committee of INSERM in Health Technology

- ERC Proof of Concept grant laureate (2022).

 

 

Publication-Track-Record

- 170 publications in peer-reviewed international journals & book chapters (including 3 editorials).

- 6010 citations; hindex = 42 (http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=Mir8W0cAAAAJ&hl=fr).

- 49 invited plenary or keynote lectures in national and international conferences.

- 1 book

- 3 patents.