Biography

Laurent Stainier received his Ph.D. degree in 1996 from the University of Liège, in Belgium (where he also obtained his Master in Aerospace Engineering in 1992). After post-doctoral positions at University of California, San Diego, and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, he became in 2001 FNRS Research Associate (Chercheur Qualifié) with the Belgian National Science Foundation, at the Aerospace and Mechanics department of the School of Engineering, University of Liège. In 2008, he took a Professor position at Ecole Centrale Nantes, in France, and joined the Research Institute of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM, UMR 6183 CNRS). From 2012 to 2016, he served as director of GeM. From 2017 to 2021, he headed the "Modelling & Simulation" research group at GeM. Since 2022, he is co-heading the "Multiscale Mechanics and Physics of Materials" group at GeM. Prof. Stainier research interests revolve around mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of non-linear, dissipative, physical systems encountered in mechanical and aerospace engineering, with a specific emphasis on multi-scale, multi-physics aspects, under model-based and data-based paradigms.