
Johannes Weickenmeier
Assistant Professor
Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research
Computational Multiphysics
Experimental Characterization of Soft Tissues
Brain Mechanics
Brain Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Experimental Characterization of Soft Tissues
Brain Mechanics
Brain Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases
General Information
01/2018-present, Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
05/2015-12/2017, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
03/2011-03/2015, Research and Teaching Assistant, ETH Zurich, CH-Zurich
05/2015-12/2017, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
03/2011-03/2015, Research and Teaching Assistant, ETH Zurich, CH-Zurich
Institutional Service
- Center for Neuromechanics Member
- Organizer ME Research Day Chair
- Center for Neuromechanics Member
- Graduate Committee Member
- SES Advisory Committee on Advanced Computing Chair
- Center for Neuromechanics Member
- Graduate Committee Member
Professional Service
- WCCM Organizer: Mechanics-Driven Modeling of Cells and Biological Tissues
- National Science Foundation GRFP Reviewer
- NSF - The Computational Mechanics Vision and Future Challenges Workshop Participant
Appointments
01/2020 - present, Director, Center for Neuromechanics
Honors and Awards
2022 Stevens Employee Recognition Award: Student-Centricity
Professional Societies
- ASME – The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Member
- BMES – The Biomedical Engineering Society Member
Selected Publications
Journal Article
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Kurt, M.; Kuhl, E.. RHEOLOGY OF THE PORCINE BRAIN UNDER EXTREME METABOLIC CHANGES.
- Wang, Z.; Martin, B.; Weickenmeier, J. N.; Garikipati, K. (2021). An inverse modelling study on the local volume changes during early morphoelastic growth of the fetal human brain. Brain Multiphysics (vol. 2, pp. 100023). Elsevier.
- Blinkouskaya, Y.; Caçoilo, A.; Gollamudi, T.; Jalalian, S.; Weickenmeier, J. N. (2021). Brain aging mechanisms with mechanical manifestations.. Mechanisms of ageing and development (vol. 200, pp. 111575).
- Visser, V. L.; Rusinek, H.; Weickenmeier, J. N. (2021). Peak ependymal cell stretch overlaps with the onset locations of periventricular white matter lesions.. Scientific reports (1 ed., vol. 11, pp. 21956).
- Blinkouskaya, Y.; Weickenmeier, J. N. (2021). Brain Shape Changes Associated With Cerebral Atrophy in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease.. Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering (vol. 7).
- Weickenmeier, J. N. (2020). Running A Virtual Summer Undergraduate Research Program: Lessons learned. 2020 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting, https://peer.asee.org/36054.
- Schäfer, A.; Weickenmeier, J. N.; Kuhl, E. (2019). The interplay of biochemical and biomechanical degeneration in Alzheimer's disease. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (vol. 352, pp. 369-388).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Jucker, M.; Goriely, A.; Kuhl, E. (2019). A physics-based model explains the prion-like features of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (vol. 124, pp. 264-281).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Kurt, M.; Ozkaya, E.; de Rooij, R.; Ovaert, T.; Ehman, R. L.; Pauly, K. B.; Kuhl, E. (2018). Brain stiffens post mortem. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials (vol. 84, pp. 88--98). Elsevier.
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Kurt, M.; Ozkaya, E.; Wintermark, M.; Pauly, K. B.; Kuhl, E. (2018). Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (vol. 84, pp. 88--98).
- Pensalfini, M.; Weickenmeier, J. N.; Rominger, M.; Santoprete, R.; Distler, O.; Mazza, E. (2018). Location-specific mechanical response and morphology of facial soft tissues. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (vol. 78, pp. 108-115).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Kurt, M.; Ozkaya, E.; Wintermark, M.; Pauly, K. B.; Kuhl, E. (2018). Magnetic resonance elastography of the brain: a comparison between pigs and humans. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials (vol. 77, pp. 702--710). Elsevier.
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Kuhl, E.; Goriely, A. (2018). Multiphysics of Prionlike Diseases: Progression and Atrophy. Physical Review Letters (15 ed., vol. 121).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Saze, P.; Butler CAM; Young, P. G.; Goriely, A.; Kuhl, E. (2017). Bulging brains.. Journal Of Elasticity (1-2 ed., vol. 129, pp. 197-212).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Jabareen, M.; Le Révérend BJD; Ramaioli, M.; Mazza, E. (2017). Experimental and Numerical Characterization of the Mechanical Masseter Muscle Response During Biting.. Journal of biomechanical engineering (12 ed., vol. 139).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; de Rooij, R.; Budday, S.; Ovaert, T. C.; Kuhl, E. (2017). The mechanical importance of myelination in the central nervous system.. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials (vol. 76, pp. 119-124).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Fischer, C.; Carter, D.; Kuhl, E.; Goriely, A. (2017). Dimensional, Geometrical, and Physical Constraints in Skull Growth.. Physical review letters (24 ed., vol. 118, pp. 248101).
- Brown, N.; Bubeck, D.; Haeufle DFB; Weickenmeier, J. N.; Kuhl, E.; Alt, W.; Schmitt, S. (2017). Weekly Time Course of Neuro-Muscular Adaptation to Intensive Strength Training.. Frontiers in physiology (vol. 8, pp. 329).
- Goriely, A.; Weickenmeier, J. N.; Kuhl, E. (2016). Stress Singularities in Swelling Soft Solids.. Physical review letters (13 ed., vol. 117, pp. 138001).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; de Rooij, R.; Budday, S.; Steinmann, P.; Ovaert, T. C.; Kuhl, E. (2016). Brain stiffness increases with myelin content.. Acta biomaterialia (vol. 42, pp. 265-272).
- Lejeune, E.; Javili, A.; Weickenmeier, J. N.; Kuhl, E.; Linder, C. (2016). Tri-layer wrinkling as a mechanism for anchoring center initiation in the developing cerebellum.. Soft matter (25 ed., vol. 12, pp. 5613-20).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Jabareen, M.; Mazza, E. (2015). Suction based mechanical characterization of superficial facial soft tissues.. Journal of biomechanics (16 ed., vol. 48, pp. 4279-86).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Jabareen, M. (2014). Elastic-viscoplastic modeling of soft biological tissues using a mixed finite element formulation based on the relative deformation gradient.. International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering (11 ed., vol. 30, pp. 1238-62).
- Weickenmeier, J. N.; Itskov, M.; Mazza, E.; Jabareen, M. (2014). A physically motivated constitutive model for 3D numerical simulation of skeletal muscles.. International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering (5 ed., vol. 30, pp. 545-62).