Ellen Kuhl

I'm the the Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X and the Walter B. Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering and I'm passionate about understanding human health through computational simulation. I received my PhD from the University of Stuttgart in 2000 and my Habilitation from the University of Kaiserslautern in 2004. My area of expertise is Living Matter Physics, the design of theoretical and computational models to simulate and predict the behavior of living matter. I've published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and edited three books; I'm an active reviewer for more than 30 journals at the interface of engineering and medicine and an editorial board member of eight international journals. I'm a founding member of the Living Heart Project, a translational research initiative to revolutionize cardiovascular science through realistic simulation with 400 participants from research, industry, and medicine from 24 countries. From 2019-2024, I was the Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. I'm the current Chair of the US National Committee on Biomechanics, a Member-Elect of the World Council of Biomechanics, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the American Institute for Mechanical and Biological Engineering. I received the ERC Advanced Grant in 2024, the ASME Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2021, the Humboldt Research Award in 2016, and the National Science Foundation Career Award in 2010. In my free time, I'm a three time All American triathlete, a multiple Berlin, Boston, Chicago, and New York marathon finisher, and a three time Kona Ironman World Championship participant.