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Pierre BADEL
I am currently Associate Professor of biomechanics at Mines Saint-Etienne. I am specialized in soft
tissue biomechanics with expertise in computational mechanics applied to finite deformations. I
have accomplished interesting advances in research, in textile mechanics for composite applications
and, since 2009, in soft tissue biomechanics and related vascular medicine/surgery and medical
device applications. I co-supervise PhD students with my colleagues of the Center for Biomedical and
Healthcare Engineering.
EDUCATION
2015
Research Habilitation
“Mécanique des tissus mous : applications en médecine et chirurgie vasculaires”
“Soft tissue mechanics: applications vascular medecine and surgery”
Mines Saint-Etienne, CNRS lab. LGF, Saint-Etienne, France.
2008
PhD in mechanics
“Mesoscopic analysis of the mechanical behavior of textile composite reinforcements Validation with X-ray tomography” (advisors: Prof. P. Boisse, Prof. E. Maire)
INSA Lyon, CNRS labs. LaMCoS and MATEIS, France.
2005
MSc. in mechanical engineering
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
CURRENT POSITION
2009… Associate professor, biomechanics
Center for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering,
Mines Saint-Etienne, INSERM Sainbiose U1059, Saint-Etienne, France.
PREVIOUS POSITION
2008 – 2009
arterial wall.
Postdoctoral Assistant professor, research on the mechanical biomimetism of the
Université Joseph Fourier/CNRS, 3SR Lab, Grenoble, France.
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SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2009 – 2015
3 post-docs co-supervised
11 PhD students co-supervised (7 already defended)
2 Master Students
at the Center for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering, Saint-Etienne, France.
2005 – 2008
3 Master Students
at INSA Lyon, CNRS LaMCoS, Lyon, France
RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED
2015-2020
PI on ERC Starting grant “Aneurysmal ARTerial mechanics: Into the Structure”
2014 – 2018 PI on an ANR Young Researcher grant “Aortic Aneurysm Damage And Rupture
Prediction” – abandoned due to ERC grant obtained.
2013 – 2017
bandages”
PI on 2 industrial contracts “Modelling skin contact pressure applied by compression
2012 – 2015 PI on Rhône-Alpes research council grant ARC2 (2012) entitled “Towards decisionmaking software for abdominal aneurysm endo-grafting”
2014 – …
Participant to a French National Agency for Research (ANR) grant: “Predictive and
patient-specific numerical simulations of endovascular treatment of atherosclerotic diseases”
2009 – 2013
Participant to 2 other industrial contracts (confidentiality)
2009 – 2012 Participant to a French National Agency for Research (ANR) grant: “In vivo
mechanical identification of tissues using medical imaging”
MAJOR SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS
Pr. Michael Sutton and Dr. Susan Lessner, on mechanical and dissection properties of
(atherosclerotic) arterial tissue.
University of South Carolina, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia, USA.
Pr. Christian Geindreau and Dr. Laurent Orgéas (Research Director), on abdominal aortic aneurysms
stent-grafting.
Université Joseph Fourier /CNRS, 3SR Lab, Grenoble, France.
Dr. Katia Genovese, on experimental investigation and identification of mechanical properties of
arterial tissue.
Department of Engineering and Environmental Physics, Università della Basilicata, Italy.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009 – …
Associate professor – Head of the master “Biomedical Engineering and Design”,
Vascular Biomechanics classes. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de SaintEtienne, Saint-Etienne, France.
2008 – 2009
Assistant professor – Fluid mechanics and Structural analysis, civil engineering
course, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France.
2005 – 2008
Teaching assistant – Rigid body systems mechanics. INSA Lyon, Lyon, France
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2012
In the organizing committee of the international symposium Euromech534
(http://euromech534.emse.fr) organized under the auspices of the European Society
of Mechanics about tissue biomechanics. Saint-Etienne, France.
2008
Involved in the organization of the international symposium ESAFORM
(http://esaform2008.insa-lyon.fr/) about composite forming. Lyon, France.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2013 – …
Member of the “Education Committee” of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de
Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France.
2012 – …
Head of the Master of Science “Biomedical Engineering and Design” of Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France.
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SUMMARY OF PUBLICATIONS
Author or co-author of 34 peer-reviewed journal publications: 26 publications on soft tissue
biomechanics, and 8 on composite forming simulation and meso-macro approaches, with a total of
850 citations; h-index = 14 (source: Google Scholar, July 2016).
Co-author of 3 book chapters, among which 1 about microstructural analyses of composite fibrous
preforms and 2 in specialized books of biomedical engineering.
About 40 communications in peer-reviewed internationally established conferences and about 15
communications in national conferences.
10 Selected publications (chronologic order)
Chassagne F, Molimard J, Convert R, Giraux P, Badel P. Numerical approach for the assessment of
pressure generated by elastic compression bandage. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2016,
accepted for publication.
Badel P, Avril S, Sutton MA, Lessner S. Numerical simulation of arterial dissection during balloon
angioplasty of atherosclerotic coronary arteries. Journal of Biomechanics, 2014, vol. 47, pp. 878-889.
Romo A, Badel P, Duprey A, Favre J-P, Avril S. In vitro rupture local analysis of aneurismal aortic walls.
Journal of Biomechanics, 2014, vol.47, pp. 607-616.
Rohan CPY, Badel P, Lun B, Rastel D, Avril S. Biomechanical response of varicose veins to elastic
compression: a numerical study. Journal of Biomechanics, 2013, vol. 46, pp. 599-603.
Badel P, Avril S, Lessner S, Sutton MA. Mechanical identification of layer-specific properties of mouse
carotid arteries using 3D-DIC and a hyperelastic anisotropic constitutive model. Computer Methods
in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2012, vol. 15, pp. 37-48.
Demanget N, Avril S, Badel P, Orgéas L, Geindreau C, Albertini J-N, Favre J-P.Computational
comparison of the bending behaviour of aortic stent-grafts. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of
Biomedical Materials, 2012, vol. 5, pp. 272-282.
Franquet A, Avril S, Le Riche R, Badel P. Identification of heterogeneous elastic properties in stenosed
arteries: a numerical plane strain study. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical
Engineering, 2012, vol. 15, pp. 49-58.
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Avril S, Badel P, Duprey A. Anisotropic and hyperelastic identification of in vitro human arteries from
full-field optical measurements. Journal of Biomechanics, 2010, vol. 43, pp. 2978-2985.
Badel P, Gauthier S, Vidal-Salle E, Boisse P. Rate constitutive equations for computational analyses of
textile composite reinforcement mechanical behaviour during forming. Composites Part A: Applied
Science and Manufacturing, 2009, vol. 40, pp. 997-1007.
Badel P, Vidal-Salle E, Maire E, Boisse P. Simulation and tomography analyzis of textile composite
reinforcement deformation at the mesoscopic scale. Composites Science and Technology, 2008, vol.
68, pp. 2433-2440.