Plenary and Keynote Speakers

Plenary Speaker

Professor Julian Vincent, Professor of Biomimetics, Bath University, UK
-Stiffness and toughness of biological materials

Keynote Speakers

Michael Behr, University of Regensburg, Germany
-Challenges for dental all-ceramics and fibre-reinforced composites

Nick Fazzalari, University of Adelaide, Australia
-Fracture in human cortical bone: Effect of orientation and fatigue induced microdamage

Alfons Fischer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
-The tribology of total hip arthroplasty and hip resurfacings - Appearing similar but being different

Chris Jacobs, Columbia University, USA
-Cellular mechanisms of mechanosensing in bone

Steve Kurtz, Exponent Inc., USA
-PEEK: A new frontier in structural biomaterials and bone scaffolds

Robert Mauck, University of Pennsylvania, USA
-A biomimetic approach to fibrous tissue engineering: Scaffold design, modeling, and construct evaluation

Marc Meyers, University of California- San Diego, USA
-Biological materials: A Materials science approach

Michelle Oyen, Cambridge University, UK
-High throughput poroelastic analysis for mapping tissue hydraulic permeability by nanoindentation

Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
-Molecular mechanics of muscle elasticity

Jeff Weiss, University of Utah, USA
-Title to be announced

Special Session Organizers

Michael Behr, University of Regensburg, Germany
-Challenges of dental ceramics and fibre-reinforced composites

Markus Buehler, MIT, USA
-Multiscale modelling of tissue mechanical properties

Ciaran Simms, Trinity College Dulblin

Sam Evans, University of Cardiff, UK

Hazel Screen, Queen Mary Univ, London
-Soft Tissues

Michelle Oyen, Cambridge University, UK
-Nanoindentation of Biological Tissues