Nir Emuna

Postdoctoral Associate, Vascular mechanics and biology

PhD "Bifurcation Phenomena and Sensitivity to Residual Stresses in Soft Tissues", Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2019)

Master of Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2014)

Bachelor of Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2011)

Email: nir.emuna"at"yale.edu

I am currently a postdoctoral associate at the Yale University in the Biomedical Engineering department, working with Professor Jay Humphrey. My current research involves vascular mechanics and biology.

Previously, I did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, working with assistant professor Noy Cohen.

I obtained a PhD in the field of biomechanics, under the supervision of Prof. David Durban, in the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion. My PhD dissertation dealt with the mechanical stabiltiy analysis of soft tissues, and also with the sensititvity of vascular material models to uncertainties in input data. I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in aerospace engineering at Technion.

Publications

2021

Inversion and perversion in twist incompatible isotropic tubes, N. Emuna, N. Cohen. Extreme Mechanics Letters.

2020

Inflation induced twist in geometrically incompatible isotropic tubes, N. Emuna, N. Cohen. Journal of Applied Mechanics.

Circumferential instabilities in radially incompatible tubes, N. Emuna, N. Cohen. Mechanics of Materials.

Stability Analysis of Arteries Under Torsion, N. Emuna, D. Durban. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.

2019

Instability of Incompatible Bilayered Soft Tissues and the Role of Interface Conditions, N. Emuna, D. Durban. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.

2018

On Rate Boundary Conditions for Soft Tissue Bifurcation Analysis, N. Emuna, D. Durban. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.

Sensitivity of Arterial Hyperelastic Models to Uncertainties in Stress-Free Measurements, N. Emuna, D. Durban, S. Osovski. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.