Cécile Legallais

CNRS-BMBI at the University of Technology of Compiegne, France

Cécile Legallais  (DR1 CNRS) is Head of the CNRS laboratory Biomechanics & Bioengineering (BMBI) at the University of Technology of Compiegne (France). The multidisciplinary nature of her work reveals her expertise in biomedical engineering and tissue engineering for the design of bio-artificial organs, fluid mechanics and microfluidics, transport phenomena, and the interactions between cells and tissues with the biomaterials.  Bronze Medal of CNRS in 2003, she published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She has supervised 25 PhD thesis. She was President of the European Society of Artificial Organs from 2017 to 2019.