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Ellen Kuhl
Ellen Kuhl
Born
Hanover, Germany
Alma materTechnical University of Kaiserslautern (habil.); University of Stuttgart (Ph.D.); Leibniz University of Hanover (Dipl.-Ing.)
Known forLiving Matter Physics
TitleWalter B. Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering and Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Websiteprofiles.stanford.edu/ellen-kuhl,livingmatter.stanford.edu

Ellen Kuhl is the Walter B. Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering and Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University[1]. She is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, Bioengineering. Her area of expertise is Living Matter Physics, the design of theoretical and computational models to simulate and predict the behavior of living systems, for example, the human brain and the living heart.

Bibliography

Kuhl grew up in Germany, and now lives in Palo Alto, California. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in computational engineering from the Leibniz University of Hanover in 1993 and 1995, her Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 2000, and her habilitation in mechanics from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in 2004[2]. She was appointed as assistant professor at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in 2002, and joined the department of mechanical engineering at Stanford University in 2007. In 2011, she accepted a position at ETH Zurich, but returned to Stanford in 2012. She was promoted to full professor in 2016, and named the Walter B. Reinhold Professor in 2021[3]. Since 2019, Kuhl has been the department chair of mechanical engineering.

Research

Kuhl's research integrates physics-based modeling with machine learning and creates interactive simulation tools to understand, explore, and predict the dynamics of living systems[4]. She has pioneered theories and algorithms for the growth of living systems, and applies these theories to brain development, brain damage[5], neurodegeneration[6], Alzheimer’s disease, tissue expansion, heart failure, dilated cardiomyopathy, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her lab was among the first to use data-driven modeling to integrate classical epidemiology modeling and machine learning to infer critical disease parameters—in real time—from the reported data to make informed predictions and guide political decision making[7]. This work gained recognition during a legal challenge of the Newfoundland travel ban[8] and in a study of superspreading events on college campuses[9].

Awards and honors

Kuhl is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering[10]. She received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 2010, was selected as Midwest Mechanics Seminar Speaker in 2014, and received the Humboldt Research Award in 2016 and the ASME Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2021.

Personal life

Kuhl is an All American triathlete[11]. She ran the New York City Marathon in 2009, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, the Zurich Marathon in 2011, the San Francisco Marathon in 2013, the Chicago Marathon in 2017, and the Boston Marathon in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. She competed in three Ironmans and ten 70.3s, including the 2019 Ironman World Championship in Kona and the 2021 Ironman 70.3 World Championship in St. George, and she qualified for Kona in 2022.

Published work

  • Kuhl, Ellen. Computational Epidemiology: Data-Driven Modeling of COVID-19, Springer Nature, 2021. ISBN:978-3-030-82889-9[7]

References

  1. ^ "Ellen Kuhl", Stanford Profiles, Stanford University, retrieved 2021-02-27
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2021-02-27
  3. ^ Ellen Kuhl named the Walter B. Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, February 3, 2021, retrieved 2021-02-27
  4. ^ Living Matter Lab, retrieved 2021-12-23
  5. ^ Abate, Tom (September 27, 2016), "Stanford-led team simulates the inner strain on the brain to better plan surgery", Stanford News, Stanford University, retrieved 2021-02-27
  6. ^ Santoro, Helen (October 15, 2018), "Connecting the dots of Alzheimer's disease", Scope, Stanford Medicine, retrieved 2021-02-27
  7. ^ a b Kuhl, Ellen (2021), Computational Epidemiology: Data-Driven Modeling of COVID-19, Springer Nature
  8. ^ MD testifies about COVID-19 transmission risks of lifting Newfoundland travel ban, CBC Radio Canada, retrieved 2021-12-23
  9. ^ College campuses are COVID superspreaders, US News & World Report, retrieved 2021-12-23
  10. ^ "Ellen Kuhl, Ph.D., AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2014", College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, retrieved 2021-02-27
  11. ^ Abate, Tom (October 7, 2019), "Ellen Kuhl, chair of mechanical engineering, finds balance in long-distance sports", The Dish, Stanford University, retrieved 2021-02-27
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