John Martin Kolinski

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor

john.kolinski@epfl.ch +41 21 693 02 70 https://www.epfl.ch/labs/emsi/

EPFL STI IGM EMSI
MED 2 2626 (Bâtiment MED)
Station 9
CH-1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 02 70
+41 21 693 38 10
Office: MED 2 2626
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Biography

Dr. Kolinski studied Applied Mathematics (Sc.M.) and Applied Physics (Ph.D.) at Harvard University, completing a PhD under the supervision of L. Mahadevan and Shmuel Rubinstein on the role of air in droplet impact. John did his post-doc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel supported by the Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship. At HUJI, he worked on interfacial instabilities in soft matter in the labs of Eran Sharon and Jay Fineberg.

John continues his research into interfacial mechanics at EPFL in EMSI, his newly founded laboratory for the study of Engineering Mechanics of Soft Interfaces.

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Mechanical Engineering

PhD Students

Kaviani Ramin, Li Chenzhuo, Molefe Lebohang Calachan, Wei Xinyue,

Courses

Continuum mechanics

Continuum conservation laws (e.g. mass, momentum and energy) will be introduced. Mathematical tools, including basic algebra and calculus of vectors and Cartesian tensors will be taught. Stress and deformation tensors will be applied to examples drawn from linear elastic solid mechanics.

Experimental methods in engineering mechanics

This course gives an advanced treatment of experimental methods in the context of mechanics by way of example. Students will construct significant components of experimental apparatus, use their apparatus to collect data, interpret the resulting data, and write reports on the experiments.

Fundamentals of Fracture with Fundamental Papers

The principles of fracture mechanics, from the energy balance approach of Griffith through modern computational approaches, will be introduced using key papers. Phase-field modeling and atomistic processes in fracture, as well as experimental developments, will complement theory.

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