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Profile
| Academic position | Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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| Research fields | Statistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics |
| Keywords | Soft Matter Physics, Solid Mechanics |
| Honours and awards | 2020: Ambizione Fellowship (Swiss National Science Foundation) 2016: Postdoctoral Research Award (DAAD) 2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) 2011: Acosta-Sabersky Graduate Fellowship (Caltech) 2010: Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Award (ETH Zurich) |
Current contact address
| Country | Switzerland |
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| City | Zürich |
| Institution | ETH Zürich |
| Institute | Department Bau, Umwelt und Geomatik |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Sergio Conti | Institut für Angewandte Mathematik (IAM), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2017 |
Programme(s)
| 2016 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Yanxia Feng, Dominic Gerber, Stefanie Heyden, Martin Kröger, Eric R Dufresne, Lucio Isa, Robert W Style: Characterizing hydrogel behavior under compression with gel-freezing osmometry. In: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2025, 106166 |
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| 2025 | Stefanie Heyden, Mohit Pundir, Eric R Dufresne, David S Kammer: Disordered origins, deterministic outcomes: How the architecture of elastic networks imprints relaxed structure and mechanics. In: Mechanics of Materials, 212, 2025, 105538 |
| 2024 | Stefanie Heyden, Michael Ortiz: Densely packed membrane configurations. In: Meccanica, 2024, 1-7 |
| 2024 | Antoine Sanner, Stefanie Heyden, David S Kammer: Effect of disorder on the fracture energy of polymer networks. In: 3rd Annual Meeting of the GDR IDE, 2024, |
| 2024 | Carla Fernández-Rico, Sanjay Schreiber, Hamza Oudich, Charlotta Lorenz, Alba Sicher, Tianqi Sai, Viola Bauernfeind, Stefanie Heyden, Pietro Carrara, Laura De Lorenzis, Robert W Style, Eric R Dufresne: Elastic microphase separation produces robust bicontinuous materials. In: Nature Materials, 23, 2024, 124-130 |
| 2024 | Stefanie Heyden, Nicolas Bain: From a distance: Shuttleworth revisited. In: Soft Matter, 20, 2024, 5592-5597 |
| 2023 | Tianchi Li, Eric R Dufresne, Martin Kröger, Stefanie Heyden: Siloxane molecules: Nonlinear elastic behavior and fracture characteristics. In: Macromolecules, 56, 2023, 1303-1310 |
| 2023 | Stefanie Heyden, Robert W Style, Eric R Dufresne: Strain stiffening elastomers with swelling inclusions. In: Soft Matter, 19, 2023, 4385-4390 |
| 2022 | Stefanie Heyden, Petia M Vlahovska, Eric R Dufresne: A robust method for quantification of surface elasticity in soft solids. In: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 161, 2022, 104786 |
| 2022 | Simon Moser, Yanxia Feng, Oncay Yasa, Stefanie Heyden, Michael Kessler, Esther Amstad, Eric R Dufresne, Robert K Katzschmann, Robert W Style: Hydroelastomers: soft, tough, highly swelling composites. In: Soft Matter, 18, 2022, |
| 2022 | Nicolas Bain, Stefanie Heyden, Qin Xu, Robert W Style, Eric R Dufresne: Reply to the ‘Comment on “Surface elastic constants of a soft solid”’by E. Gutman, Soft Matter, 2022, 18. In: Soft Matter, 18, 2022, 4641-4642 |
| 2021 | Katrina Smith-Mannschott, Qin Xu, Nicolas Bain, Stefanie Heyden, Eric Dufresne, Robert Style: Anisotropic wetting on simple, flat surfaces. In: APS March Meeting Abstracts, 2021, M06.012 |
| 2021 | Stefanie Heyden, Nicolas Bain, Qin Xu, Robert W Style, Eric R Dufresne: Contact lines on stretched soft solids: modelling anisotropic surface stresses. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 477, 2021, 20200673 |
| 2021 | Katrina Smith-Mannschott, Qin Xu, Stefanie Heyden, Nicolas Bain, Jacco H Snoeijer, Eric R Dufresne, Robert W Style: Droplets sit and slide anisotropically on soft, stretched substrates. In: Physical review letters, 126, 2021, 158004 |
| 2021 | Jin Young Kim, Stefanie Heyden, Dominic Gerber, Nicolas Bain, Eric R Dufresne, Robert W Style: Measuring surface tensions of soft solids with huge contact-angle hysteresis. In: Physical Review X, 11, 2021, 031004 |
| 2021 | Nicolas Bain, Anand Jagota, Katrina Smith-Mannschott, Stefanie Heyden, Robert W Style, Eric R Dufresne: Surface tension and the strain-dependent topography of soft solids. In: Physical Review Letters, 127, 2021, 208001 |
| 2019 | Stefanie Heyden, Michael Ortiz: Functional optimality of the sulcus pattern of the human brain. In: Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA, 36, 2019, 207-221 |
| 2018 | Stefanie Heyden, Michael Ortiz: Optimizing information transmission rates drives brain gyrification. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 474, 2018, 20180527 |
| 2018 | William Schill, Stefanie Heyden, Sergio Conti, Michael Ortiz: The anomalous yield behavior of fused silica glass. In: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 113, 2018, 105-125 |
| 2017 | Stefanie Heyden, Michael Ortiz: Investigation of the influence of viscoelasticity on oncotripsy. In: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 314, 2017, 314-322 |
| 2016 | Stefanie Heyden, Michael Ortiz, Alessandro Fortunelli: All-atom molecular dynamics simulations of multiphase segregated polyurea under quasistatic, adiabatic, uniaxial compression. In: Polymer, 106, 2016, 100-108 |
| 2016 | Stefanie Heyden, Michael Ortiz: Oncotripsy: Targeting cancer cells selectively via resonant harmonic excitation. In: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 92, 2016, 164-175 |
| 2015 | Stefanie Heyden, Bo Li, Kerstin Weinberg, Sergio Conti, Michael Ortiz: A micromechanical damage and fracture model for polymers based on fractional strain-gradient elasticity. In: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 74, 2015, 175-195 |
| 2015 | Stefanie Heyden, Sergio Conti, Michael Ortiz: A nonlocal model of fracture by crazing in polymers. In: Mechanics of Materials, 90, 2015, 131-139 |
| 2015 | Stefanie Heyden, Michael Ortiz: Computational Simulation, Multiscale Computations, and Issues Related to Behavioral Aspects of High Strain-Rate Elastomeric Polymers. William Andrew, 2015 |
| 2015 | Stefanie Heyden, Andreas Nagler, Cristóbal Bertoglio, Jonas Biehler, Michael W Gee, Wolfgang A Wall, Michael Ortiz: Material modeling of cardiac valve tissue: Experiments, constitutive analysis and numerical investigation. In: Journal of biomechanics, 48, 2015, |
| 2015 | Stefanie Heyden: Micromechanical damage and fracture in elastomeric polymers. California Institute of Technology, 2015 |