About: 

Thomas Lavigne is an AFR-FNR PhD candidate working on the characterization of skin mechanics using porous media models. He became a part of the Legato team in September 2019 as an intern of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD fellow project within the ITN RAINBOW network and was supervised by Arnaud Mazier, Saurabh Deshpande, and Jakub Lengiewicz. The primary focus of his internship was the application of digital volume correlation and the development of finite element models to accurately reproduce the large deformation of breast soft tissues. The focus of his PhD is to apply porous media mechanics on the human skin to reproduce the coupling in the biochemical and mechanical responses of the tissue when submitted to an external load. This PhD work is a cotutelle between the University of Luxembourg, the Institut de Biomécanique Humaine George Charpak in Paris and the Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie Bordeaux.

Before joining the legato team, he studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris Saclay and followed a master in biomechanics at the Ecole Nationale d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) in Paris.