Bastien Sauty

PhD Student (cotutelle with Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne)

Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering
University of Rome Tor Vergata

Via del Politecnico 1
00133 Rome, Italy

Centre Ingénierie Santé
Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne

158 Cr Fauriel 
42000 Saint-Etienne, France

bastien.sauty@emse.fr

ORCID: 0000-0001-9437-8802
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bastien-Sauty

Research Interests

  • Micromechanics
  • Computational mechanics
  • Simulation of arterial tissue mechanics
  • Mechanics of vasoconstriction

Main Publications

  • Sauty, B., Santesarti, G., Fleischhammer, T., Lindner, P., Lavrentieva, A., Pepelanova, I. & Marino, M. Enabling Technologies for Obtaining Desired Stiffness Gradients in GelMA Hydrogels Constructs. Macromol Chem Phys 223:2100326 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/macp.202100326
  • Marino, M., Sauty, B. & Vairo, G. Unraveling the complexity of vascular tone regulation: a multiscale computational approach to integrating chemo-mechano-biological pathways with cardiovascular biomechanics. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 23, 1091–1120 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-024-01826-6

Main Projects and Fundings

  • 2024. Erasmus+ Mobility grant from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne.
  • 2023. Mobility Award of the Université Franco-Italienne, Grant C2-97 of Vinci Program Ch2 for cotutelle PhD.
  • 2022-2025. Ph.D. grant awarded by ENS Paris-Saclay in a specific doctoral contract for normaliens (CDSN).

Short CV

Bastien Sauty studied mechanical engineering at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and specialized on biomechanics during his master’s degree at ENSAM ParisTech, as part of the BME Biomech program. He is currently pursuing a cotutelle PhD (2022–2025) at Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne and Università degli Studi di Roma – Tor Vergata, funded by the ENS Paris-Saclay.

His research centers on computational mechanics, with a particular focus on the multiscale modeling of arterial tissue mechanics. This includes the passive elastic behavior under finite strain and active vasoconstriction driven by the contraction of smooth muscle cells.