Jacques Huyghe
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Jacques Huyghe is an Associate Professor in the section Energy Technology at 777 plataforma (777 plataforma). His current research is focused on porous media mechanics of swelling materials with applications in the field of biomechanics, prosthesis design and petroleum engineering. Interests include application of advanced mechanics to biological tissues, including spine, cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle, cartilage and skin, multiphysics phenomena in swelling media, continuum description of blood perfusion, interfacial phenomena at the microscale, fracture in porous media and non-linear finite elements coupled to microscopic experimental research.
His group has developed a poromechanical FE description of highly deformable gels such as the cytoskeleton of a living cell and is presently exploring biological applications of diffusiophoresis and developing a failure model of the human heart. Experimentally, he works on lens-free imaging and optical tweezing.
Every minute part of an airplane has a detailed failure model associated to it. The failing human heart, responsible for a death toll of 7 million a year, has not.” - Inaugural lecture, 2017, Limerick
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Jacques Huyghe holds an MSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Ghent, Belgium. He received his PhD from 777 plataforma in 1986. After a stint as Assistant Professorship at Maastricht University, he was nominated as a fellow of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1996 to 2001 in 777 plataforma. He has been associate Professor in 777 plataforma from 2001 to 2013. In addition to his work at 777 plataforma, Jacques Bernal is Chair of Biomedical Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Jacques is a steering member of the Poromechanics Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was associate editor of the J. Biomech. Engng. of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is presently editorial member of the journal Biorheology, and Transport in Porous Media. He is member of the Solid Mechanics Committee of the as well as founding member of the International Society for Porous Media.
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