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Dana Solav

Dana Solav

Head of The Biomechanical Interfaces Lab

Education

  • PhD (direct track), 2016, Mechanical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
  • BSc, 2006, Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University.

Research Interests

Biomechanics, human movement, soft tissue mechanics, prosthetic and orthotic devices, finite element analysis, imaging and 3D motion tracking methods.

Guest Appointments

  • 2019 – 2020, Research Scientist, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • 2017 – 2018, Postdoctoral Fellow, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Membership in Professional Societies

  • European Society of Biomechanics
  • European Mechanics Society
  • Israel Association for Computational Methods in Mechanics

Honors and Awards

  • Jacques Lewiner Career Advancement Chair (2020-2022).
  • IEEE Access Best Multimedia Award (2018).
  • Student Award Finalist of the European Society of Biomechanics Congress (2016).
  • MIT-Technion Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016).
  • Aharon and Ephraim Katzir Study Grant, The Israel Academy of Sciences (2015).
  • The Irwin and Joan Jacobs PhD Fellowship (2015).
  • Sylvia and David Fine Excellence Scholarship for PhD Students (2014).
  • Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Memorial Fellowship (2013).
  • The International Society of Biomechanics Student Congress Travel Grant (2013).
  • Leonard and Diane Sherman Interdisciplinary Graduate School Fellowship (2012).
  • Excellent Teaching Assistant Prize, Technion – 5 times (2012-2016).

 

Selected Publications

  • Oddes, Z., and Solav, D., “Identifiability of soft tissue constitutive parameters from in-vivo macro-indentation”. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 140, 105708, 2023.
  • Yang, X., Zhao, R., Solav, D., Yang, X., Lee, D.R., Sparrman, B., Fan, Y. and Herr, H. “Material, design, and fabrication of custom prosthetic liners for lower-extremity amputees: A review”. Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices, p.100197, 2022.
  • Solav, D. and Silverstein A. “DuoDIC: 3D Digital Image Correlation in MATLAB”. Journal of Open Source Software, 7.74, 4279, 2022.
  • Rogers, E., Carney, M., Yeon, S., Solav, D., Herr. H. “An Ankle-Foot Prosthesis for Rock Climbing Augmentation”. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 29, 41-51, 2021.
  • Sun T.*, Tasnim F.*, McIntosh R., Amiri N., Solav D., Anbarani M., Sadat D., Zhang L., Gu Y., Karami M., Dagdeviren C. “Decoding of facial strains via conformable piezoelectric interfaces”. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 4, 954-972, 2020.
  • Solav, D., Moerman, K., Jaeger, A., Herr. H. “A Framework for Measuring the Time-varying Shape and Full-field Deformation of Residual Limbs using 3D Digital Image Correlation”. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 66(10), 2740-2752, 2019.
  • Solav, D., Moerman, K., Jaeger, A., Genovese, K., Herr. H. “MultiDIC: a MATLAB Toolbox for Multi-View 3D Digital Image Correlation”. IEEE Access, 6, 30520-30535, 2018.
  • Moerman, K., Solav, D., Sengeh, D., Herr. H. “Automated and Data-driven Computational Design of Patient-Specific Transtibial Prosthetic Sockets”. Preprint DOI: 10.31224/osf.io/g8h9n.
  • Solav, D., Camomilla, V., Cereatti, A., Barré, A., Aminian, K., Wolf, A. “Bone Orientation and Position Estimation Errors Using Cosserat Point Elements and Least Squares methods: Application to Gait”. Journal of Biomechanics, 62, 110-116, 2017.
  • Solav, D., Meric, H., Rubin, M.B., Pradon, D., Lofaso, F., Wolf, A. “Chest Wall Kinematics Using Triangular Cosserat Point Elements in Healthy and Neuromuscular Subjects”. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 45(8), 1963-1973, 2017.
  • Rubin, M.B. and Solav, D. “Unphysical Properties of the Rotation Tensor Estimated by Least Squares Optimization with Specific Application to Biomechanics”. International Journal of Engineering Science, 103, 11-18, 2016.
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

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