Julien Dervaux

  Research interests

• Growth of soft elastic tissues
• Morphogenesis
• Tumour modeling and simulation
• Swelling hydrogels
• Nonlinear physics and instabilities

  Short CV

• PhD Student, since 2007, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, ENS, Paris, France


• DEA de physique théorique des systèmes complexes, 2006-2007, université Paris VII Denis-Diderot, Paris, France


• Maitrise de physique, 2005-2006, Duke University, North Carolina, USA


• DEUG Science de la Matière, 2004-2005, université Paris VII Denis-Diderot, Paris, France

  Research experience

• Stage, 2007, "Growth of elastic soft tissues", Laboratoire de Physique Statistique ENS, Paris, France. Supervisor: Prof. Martine Ben Amar


• Stage, 2006, "Eward's theory of granular materials", Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University, North Carolina, USA. Supervisor: Prof. Robert P. Behringer


• Stage, 2005, "Instabilité d'une nappe visqueuse", IPGP, Paris, France. Supervisor: Prof. Neil Ribe


• Stage, 2005, "Etalonnage de la mission BRAIN", Collège de France, Paris, France. Supervisor: Prof. Yannick Giraud-Héraud

  Selected publications

• "Localized growth of layered tissues"
  J. Dervaux and M. Ben Amar
  IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, (2010) in press .

• "Elastic growth in thin geometries"
  J. Dervaux and M. Ben Amar
  Origins of Life: Self-Organization and/or Biological Evolution? ,(2009) 79-94.

• "Morphogenesis of thin hyperelastic plates: A constitutive theory of biological growth in the Föppl-von Karman limit"
  J. Dervaux, P. Ciarletta and M. Ben Amar
  Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 57 (2009) 458.

• "Morphogenesis of growing soft tissues"
  J. Dervaux and M. Ben Amar,
  Phys. Rev. Lett., 101 (2008) 068101.