Christian Duriez

Christian Duriez received the Ph.D. degree in robotics from CEA, University of Evry, France, in 2004. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the CIMIT SimGroup, Boston, MA, USA. In 2006, he was with INRIA, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, Villeneuve dAscq, France, and worked on interactive simulation of deformable objects and haptic rendering with a focus on surgical simulation. In 2014, he was promoted as Directeur de Recherche, and currently the head of the DEFROST Team, created in January 2015. In 2018, he was an invited Researcher with Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He participated in the creation of the open-source SOFA framework. He was also one of the founders of the companies InSimo (2013) and Compliance Robotics (2024). His interests include soft robot models and control, fast finite-element methods, simulation of contact response. With Compliance Robotics, he is developing the use of soft robot for educational and industrial applications (in particular for food industry).