My research topics is “medical devices/human body interaction”. I develop an integrated research with clinical and industrial partners, combining numerical, experimental and clinical approach on the same problem.
Many medical devices claim a mechanical action on the body (lumbar belts, compression bands, syringe …) but the way it acts is usually badly known. We aim at understanding the mechanical pathway and to discriminate between mechanical and physiological effects and at proposing the best treatment (posology, device) for a specific patient.
This topic has a strong basis in clinics, therefore it requires specific developments in clinical instrumentation and data processing.
This work is motivated by industrial problems brought by our local partners and opens to scientific questions such as in-silico clinical trials, soft tissue evaluation, multi-physics modelling.

→Teacher at ICM/Bmed Master programs: participation to “Experimental methods” and “Biomechanics” courses; internship or project supervisor
→Teatcher at HMDI Master program: in charge of the “Medical Device and Sensors”; MSc thesis supervisor
→Teatcher at SIS Doctoral School : in charge of “Experimental Mechanics” course; superviser of 14 PhD
→Deputy Director of the Doctoral School SIS “Science, Engineering, Health”.

I obtained a MSc (1994) and later a PhD (1999) in Mechanical Engineering from INSA Lyon – France. He was received as Dr. Habil. from Saint-Etienne University in 2005.

I was recruited at Mines Saint-Etienne – France in 2000, to develop experimental mechanics research topics. I published reference works on shearing interferometry, FEMU identification methods, or optical metrology. I was winner of the Hetteny award for best paper in experimental mechanics in 2009.

Since that date, I joined the STBio team, then LBTO where I oriented my research topic on skin, and deeper soft tissues / textile-based medical devices interaction (lumbar belts, compression bands …). My contributions enhance the dialogue between numerical, experimental and clinical points of view to get a fruitful understanding helping MDs or industry supplies to develop better patient care protocol.

I participate to “Experimental methods” and “Biomechanics” courses and is in charge of the “Medical Device and Sensors” and the “Experimental Mechanics” courses; I authored two books in this field. I am now in charge of the Doctoral School “Science, Engineering, Health”.

From 2000 on, I supervised or co-supervised 14 PhD, and co-authored more than 150 conferences and 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

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