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
2022-203:
Head of the DVH team within SAINBIOSE dedicated to research on vascular
dysfunction (100 people)
2022: Elected
Member at the Specialized Scientific Committee of INSERM in Health Technology
2024:
cofounder of the start-up KaomX.
2024:
Director of SAINBIOSE INSERM
U1059 research laboratory (150 people)
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).
- ERC
Advanced grant laureate (2024), the most prestigious research grant in the
EU.
Publication-Track-Record
- 210
publications in peer-reviewed international journals & book chapters
(including 3 editorials).
- 7200
citations; hindex = 44 (http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=Mir8W0cAAAAJ&hl=fr).
- 49
invited plenary or keynote lectures in national and international conferences.
- 2 books
- 4 patents.