Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

The team has relocated from Rocquencourt to the Saclay Ile-de-France Inria research center in June 2012. This change was motivated by the very strong potential of this rapidly-evolving environment in terms of multi-disciplinary collaborations, with the actors already in place as well as those to come, in particular with the creation of the ambitious new Paris-Saclay University. We are already part of a local initiative entitled “Mechanics and living systems” in association with various components of the two mechanics laboratories of Ecole Polytechnique, and which encompasses fundamental, experimental and numerical aspects in biomechanics. This environment is also foreseen as most favorable to the launching of our successor-team, since 2012 was the last year of the Macs team itself, indeed.