Christian Duriez
INRIA, France
Biography
Christian Duriez received his Engineering Degree in Lille, France and a PhD degree in robotics from University of Evry, France. His thesis work was realized at CEA/LIST followed by a Postdoctoral position at the CIMIT SimGroup in Boston. He arrived at INRIA in 2006 to work on interactive simulation of deformable objects and haptic rendering. In 2009, he was the Vice-Head of SHACRA team and focus on surgical simulation. He is now the Head of DEFROST team, created in January 2015. His research topics are soft robot models and control, fast finite element methods, simulation of contact response and other complex mechanical interactions, new algorithms for haptics. All his research results were developed in SOFA, which is a framework that he co-developed with other INRIA teams. He was one of the Founders of the start-up company InSimo which uses his research results for training future surgeons.