Konstantinos Danas

Kostas Danas is a CNRS research director and associate professor at the Laboratory of Solid Mechanics (LMS), in the Department of Mechanics of the Ecole polytechnique (IP Paris). He obtained his engineering degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Thessaly and his doctorate at the Polytechnic School. His main research interests are in the field of solid mechanics and composite materials. He is currently working on the experimental, numerical and theoretical analysis of microstructured active elastomers and their instabilities as well as on the modeling and fracture of metallic and 3D printed polymeric porous materials. Kostas is the laureate of the bronze medal of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 2017 and of the Jean Mandel prize (2019) awarded twice a year for excellence in mechanical research to young scientists (under 40 years old) working in France.

*LMS: a joint research unit CNRS, Ecole polytechnique - Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Titulaire d’un double doctorat de l’École polytechnique et de l’Université de Pennsylvanie (États-Unis), M. Danas se spécialise dans la mécanique des solides et notamment des matériaux composites, ces assemblages de plusieurs constituants qui confèrent des propriétés extrêmes au matériau final. Il a rejoint le Laboratoire de mécanique des solides après un stage postdoctoral à l’Université de Cambridge (Royaume-Uni). Il mène depuis des travaux sur la description théorique et la modélisation numérique des lois de comportement des matériaux composites, à des échelles variant du nanomètre au centimètre.