Ellen Kuhl

Ellen Kuhl is a German biomechanical engineer, the Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering and the Walter B. Reinhold Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research involves the simulation of human body structures such as the brain and the heart, and has included work on modeling the spread of Alzheimer’s disease and on the effects of injury to the brain.
Education and career.
After earning bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Hanover in 1993 and 1995, Kuhl earned a Ph.D. at the University of Stuttgart in 2000, and a habilitation at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in 2004.
She became an assistant professor at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern beginning in 2002, and moved to Stanford in 2007, on leave in 2011 to work as a professor at ETH Zurich. She was named a full professor at Stanford in 2016, and named Walter B. Reinhold Professor in 2021.
Recognition.
Kuhl was named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2014, "for creating mathematical and computational models of living systems with focus on growth and morphogenesis under physiological and pathological conditions". She became a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2017.
Personal life.
Kuhl is also a triathlete and competed in the 2019 Ironman World Championship.