Kostas Danas

Kostas Danas holds a tenured position as a CNRS Research Director and Associate Professor at the Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LMS), Department of Mechanics at École Polytechnique (IP Paris). He received his Dipl. Ing. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece and his Ph.D. from the École polytechnique, France. 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 modelling and fracture of metallic and 3D printed polymeric porous materials. Kostas is the recipient of the Bronze Medal from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2017 and the Jean Mandel prize (2019) awarded bi-annually for excellence in research in mechanics to young scientists (below 40) working in France.