Webportal and Working Groups Committee: Sandra Loerakker

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

The Netherlands

Sandra Loerakker is a Full Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She obtained her PhD at TU/e in 2011, for which she was awarded the ESB Best Doctoral Thesis in Biomechanics Award (2012) and the EPUAP Novice Investigator Award (2012). Sandra was appointed as Assistant Professor at TU/e in 2015, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019 and Full Professor in 2026. From May 2016 – April 2017, supported by a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, she also was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University (USA). Sandra’s research focuses on developing experimentally informed computational models to understand and predict how mechanical factors regulate soft tissue regeneration and adaptation, with a primary focus on cardiovascular regenerative medicine. Her research has been supported by several personal grants (ERC Starting Grant (2018), VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (2022), ERC Consolidator Grant (2025)). Sandra also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. Additionally, based on her efforts in teaching nonlinear continuum mechanics and finite element analysis, she has been elected as Best Master Teacher of TU/e’s Biomedical Engineering Department (2018, 2019, 2022, 2024) and of TU/e (2022).

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