Martin Genet

My original background is in Computational Mechanics and Computational Materials Science. The ultimate aspiration of my current research is to use the fundamental laws of physics and the power of modern computing and imaging facilities to improve cardiology and pulmonology. Generally speaking, my work belongs to the general field of biomedical engineering science, whose objectives are (i) to better understand the phenomenon of life in health and disease, and (ii) to develop and analyze novel concepts and methods for biomedical engineering, i.e., which will be the foundation of objective and quantitative tools for medicine, i.e., for the diagnosis and treatment of patients. More precisely, my research focuses on the development of (i) models of the mechanics of living tissues and organs (mostly the heart and the lungs), (ii) methods and tools for the simulation of such models (which can be used as a prediction tool, i.e., prognosis, but also to investigate competing hypothesis), and (iii) methods and tools for the estimation of model parameters based on clinical data (which can be used to estimate quantities that cannot be measured in vivo, i.e., augmented diagnosis, and to build personalized models, a.k.a. digital twins, that can be used to design patient-specific therapies, i.e., optimized treatment).

Mechanics Department & Solid Mechanics Laboratory, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France