Frederick Gosselin MEng, PhD

Dr. Frederick P. Gosselin, Ph.D. is a Professor at Polytechnique Montreal. He obtained his Doctoral degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau (a suburb of Paris) in France in 2009 for his work on the mechanisms of fluid-structure interactions in a fluid flow over vegetation. Before that, he obtained both B.Eng and M.Eng. from McGill University in Montréal Canada in 2004 and 2006 respectively.

His research is concerned with the various phenomena of instability and non-linear behavior of slender structures. A structure is said to be slender when one of its dimensions is much larger than one of the other two. Examples are ubiquitous in nature: branches and tree leaves, spider silk, hair, and cell membranes; as well as in industrial components: turbine blades, aircraft wings, etc. Regardless of their nature, slender structures are modeled with the theories of beams, rods, plates, or shells. Three lines of research on slender structures are prioritized in my group: their reconfiguration under fluid flow, their 3D printing, and their shaping by the imposition of residual stresses.