Mathias Fink, born in 1945 in
Grenoble, is a French physicist, professor at
ESPCI Paris and member of the
French Academy of Sciences
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Life and career
Mathias Fink received a M.S. degree in mathematics from
Paris University, and the Ph.D. degree in solid state physics. Then he moved to medical imaging and received the ''Doctorat es-Sciences'' degree from Paris University in the area of ultrasonic focusing for real-time medical imaging under the direction of
Pierre Alais (1978).
In 1981 he was appointed Professor at the
University of Strasbourg. After a stay as a visiting professor at the
University of Irvine
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in the radiology department he returned to France to become professor at the
Paris Diderot University (Paris 7). In 1990 and founded the "Waves and Acoustics Laboratory" at ESPCI whose director he was and which became the ''Institut Langevin'' in 2009. 2005 he was appointed professor at ESPCI, where he now is professor emeritus and holds the
Georges Charpak chair.
Fink pioneered the development of time-reversal mirrors and
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. He developed many applications of this concept from ultrasound therapy, medical imaging, non-destructive testing, underwater acoustics, seismic imaging, tactile objects, to electromagnetic telecommunications.
He also pioneered innovative medical imaging methods: transient elastography, supersonic shear imaging and multi-wave imaging that are now implemented by several companies. Six companies with close to 400 employees have been created from his research:
Echosens, Sensitive Object, Supersonic Imagine, Time Reversal Communications, Cardiawave, and GreenerWave.
Honors and awards
* 1994 ''Grand prix de la créativité''
SNECMA
* 1995
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prize of the
French Physical Society
* 2002 elected to the
French Academy of Engineering
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* 2003 elected to the
French Academy of Science
* 2006 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal of the
Acoustical Society of America
* 2007 Officer of the French Legion (since 2017 Commander)
* 2008
Louis Néel prize of the French Physical Society
* 2008/2009 Liliane Bettencourt Chair of Technological Innovation at the
Collège de France
* 2015 international colloquium in honor of his 70th birthday
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1945 births
French physicists
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Commanders of the Legion of Honour
Living people
Academic staff of ESPCI Paris