Jean-François Molinari

Molinari was elected in October 2019 to the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation in Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences. He is the Chair of the Swiss Community for Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, and a member of the European Solid Mechanics Conference Committee (term of 2016-2021).

Molinari started his tenure at EPFL in 2007 as associate Professor in structural mechanics in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering., and was promoted to Full Professor in 2012. He is the director of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory at EPFL. He was director of the EPFL Civil Engineering Institute from 2013 to 2017, and has a joint appointment in the Materials Science institute.

Molinari received a B.S. and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne in 1997. He received a M.S. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2001, both in aeronautics, from the California Institute of Technology. From 2000 to 2005, he was assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He was then associate Research Professor from 2006 to 2011 at the same institution. From 2005 to 2007, he was also a professor at École Normale Supérieure Cachan in Mechanics, and held a Teaching Associate position at the École Polytechnique in Paris from 2006 to 2009.

Jean-François Molinari (born 1973 (1973) in Metz, France) is a French-Swiss engineer and scientist specialised in the numerical modeling of the mechanics of materials and structures. He is a full professor and the director of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).