Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer 2022 announced

We are pleased to announce that Professor Jacques Huyghe has won the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer Award for 2022. He will succeed Prof. Sahimi and continue the lecture series.

Prof. Huyghe is Bernal Chair of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His research focuses on pioneering the application of poromechanics to key problems in medicine and biology including personal care, cell biomechanics, coronary vascular disease and spine biomechanics.

As recipient of the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer Award, Prof. Huyghe will give an invited talk during InterPore2021 entitled Poromechanics in extremely large deformation: swelling and fracture.