Treasurer: Aurélie Carlier

Maastricht University

MERLN Institute

Maastricht, Netherlands

Aurélie Carlier is associate professor at the MERLN Institute in Maastricht, the Netherlands. She received her MSc in Biomedical Engineering in 2010 and her PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2014, both at the KU Leuven, Belgium. During her PhD she also visited the Systems Biology Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Her research interests encompass the multiscale computational modelling of biological processes, with a particular focus on bone tissue engineering applications and cell-biomaterial interactions and using a range of data-driven to mechanistic modelling approaches. Aurélie Carlier is the author of over 50 ISI indexed journal papers. Her research achievements have been awarded with a number of distinctions, including the Student Award of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB, 2012), the Reinhart Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award by the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB, 2015) and the Best Doctoral Thesis Award by the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB, 2015). She has received a prestigious VENI career development grant (0.25 M€, 2016) from the Dutch Science Foundation and an ERC STG grant (2024). Besides her research, she is co-founder and board member of FEM (Female Empowerment Maastricht University), a network to discuss and tackle gender issues.

Email to treasurer@esbiomech.org