Thomas Lavigne

Postdoctoral Researcher

Project: SMCs in porous collagen hydrogels
Room: 104-20-213
Dates: Dec 2025 - Nov 2027
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Thomas Lavigne is a researcher in Biomechanics and Computational Modeling, specializing in the poromechanical and multiscale modeling of soft biological tissues. His work focused on characterizing the complex time-dependent mechanical behavior of soft tissues like human skin and skeletal muscle, with direct applications in fields such as pressure ulcer prevention and tissue engineering.

Former student of École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay (mechanical engineering department), He recently earned a Dual Doctoral Degree (Docteur en Sciences de l’Ingénieur) through a Co-tutelle PhD (2022-2025) entitled: Biomechanical modelling of human skin: a hierarchical porous media framework. This PhD work allied theroetical developments, numerical assessments and experimental campaigns, along with international collaboration and dissemination, with a special care on reproducibility. It successfully allowed to couple mechanics and biology (microvascular response) using porous media framework, providing insights on the time-dependent response of human skin as well as ischemic and hyperemic responses to an external load without introducing any neurological effects. This program was a joint effort between:

This work was recognized with the 2025 Excellent Thesis Award from the University of Luxembourg and proposed for the FNR Outstanding PhD Award, Prix Bézier (ENSAM), suggested for application to the FNR Outstanding PhD Award and more recently proposed for a potential participation at Prix Tarrach from Les Amis du Luxembourg

More recently, He am part of post-doctoral research projects:

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