He was promoted to Research Director in 2014 and currently leads the DEFROST team, created in January 2015.
Christian Duriez is a research director at Inria. He obtained a PhD in robotics from the University of Evry and the CEA in France in 2004, followed by a postdoctoral position at the CIMIT SimGroup in Boston. He joined Inria in 2006 and worked on interactive simulation of deformable objects and haptic rendering, focusing on surgical simulation. He was promoted to Research Director in 2014 and currently leads the DEFROST team, created in January 2015. In 2018, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University. His research topics are soft robot models and control, finite element methods for real-time computing, contact response simulation, haptic rendering... He participated in the creation of the SOFA open source framework. He is also one of the founders of InSimo (set up in 2013) and has just set up a new company, Compliance Robotics (2024), to exploit his research work in flexible robotics.