Michel Duprez

Inria Senior Researcher

Current position

Inria Senior Researcher
Accredited to supervise research (HDR)
Inria project-team MIMESIS
Co-head of the MLMS team, ICube laboratory

Contact

Centre Inria de l’université de Lorraine
2, rue Marie Hamm
67000 Strasbourg — FRANCE
✉ michel.duprez@inria.fr

News

14-18 December 2026 — The NeuralFEM workshop will be held in Strasbourg, bringing together the members of the MATH-AmSud NeuralFEM project from Uruguay, Colombia, Chile and France: talks in the morning, discussion in the afternoon.

φ-FEM logo

28 August 2026 — The phiFEM library, which brings the φ-FEM method to FEniCSx, now runs in parallel. All φ-FEM codes are openly available on GitHub.

Bio

I defended my PhD in applied mathematics on 26 November 2015, supervised by Farid Ammar Khodja and Franz Chouly, on controllability problems for coupled parabolic systems. From 2016 to 2018 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille (I2M) and the Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes (LSIS), Aix-Marseille University, where I worked on crowd models with Francesco Rossi and Morgan Morancey. A second postdoc followed in 2018-2019 at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (LJLL), with Yannick Privat and Grégoire Nadin, on optimisation problems arising in biology. I then held a position as assistant professor at Université Paris-Dauphine from 2019 to 2020, and since September 2020 I have been a senior researcher at Inria, in the MIMESIS project-team of the Nancy-Grand-Est centre.

Research topics

Methodology

Domain described by a level-set on a mesh — **φ-FEM** — Immersed boundary finite elements

Element-wise map of an a posteriori error estimator — **A posteriori estimation** — Adaptive refinement

Deformation field driving the shape optimisation — **Shape optimisation** — Patient-specific devices

Optimal control — Systems governed by PDEs

Applications

CT slice of a liver and vascular tree with the needle — **Augmented surgery** — Liver tumour ablation

Extraocular muscles and mechanical model of the eyeball — **Myopia and strabismus** — Biomechanics of the eye

Stent deployed in a stenosed artery — **Stent design** — Arterial stenoses

Aedes albopictus feeding on skin — **Epidemiology** — Biological control of arboviruses