Thomas Lessinnes is a Professor in École Polytechnique at ULB. After his PhD in magnetohydrodynamics in the faculty of Sciences at ULB (2010), he moved to the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford as a Wiener-Anspach post-doc and then as a Marie Curie Research Fellow. There, he worked on the mechanics of biofilaments developing new theories and applying them to specific systems. He then moved to the mathematics institute at EPFL where he was a post-doc and then a chargé de cours. Recently new theories are emerging that allow to model complex biofilaments in simpler ways at the cost of having nonlinear constitutive laws. Current interests include growing filaments and shells, biomolecules, modelling magnetic micro-swimmers, mathematical techniques for deciding stability and building effective theories, and of course soft robotics.
Title: “A tool for modelling multiscale active-filaments “