IBSim-4i 2024

Keynote Speakers

Dr Samuel Cooper, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London

Machine learning for the characterisation and design of battery electrodes

Dr Sam Cooper is a Reader in the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. He leads a group focused on the application of machine learning to the characterisation and design of advanced materials such as battery electrodes. His group has released many open-source software tools that can be found at https://tldr-group.github.io/. Most recently, Sam has spun out a company, Polaron, which is building a generative AI toolkit for materials design https://polaron.ai/.

Professor Christian Gasser, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

The biomechanics-based rupture risk assessment. Patient selection through FEM-based postprocessing of medical images

Christian Gasser is Professor of Biomechanics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He holds a Master of Mechanical Engineering (1997) and a PhD in Civil Engineering (2001), both from Graz University of Technology, Austria. The development and application of advanced numerical techniques to solve realistic (bio)engineering and clinical problems is Gasser’s main research objective. Constitutive models for anisotropic finite strain materials have been implemented in all major Finite Element simulation packages, such as ANSYS, ABAQUS, COMSOL, etc, and Gasser’s translational biomechanics research led to A4clinicsRE, commercial biomechanical-based simulation software for clinical decision making. In 2022, he was listed as KTH’s most influential researcher in Biomedical Engineering, and his work has so far led to more than 16k Google Scholar citations. He received a Humboldt Research Award from Germany, and Gasser is designated the 2024 Odqvist lecturer, a distinction awarded by the Swedish national mechanics committee. He is an Associate Editor of Int. J. for Num. Meth. in Biomed. Engrg, in the editorial board of Mechanics of Soft Materials and an EMMCC member, principal founder of ARTEC Diagnosis AB and VASCOPS GmbH, and serves as a legal expert for skiing accident reconstruction at Oberlandesgericht, Graz, Austria.