Thomas Christian Gasser

Curriculum Vitae.T.Christian Gasser is Professor of Biomechanics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He holds a Master of Mechanical Engineering (1997) and a PhD in Civil Engineering (2001), both from Graz University of Technology, Austria. In 2008 Gasser accomplished his Habilitation in Solid Mechanics/Biomechanics at KTH. The development and application of advanced numerical techniques to solve realistic (bio)engineering and clinical problems, is Gasser’s main research objective. Constitutive models for anisotropic finite strain materials have been implemented in all major Finite Element simulation packages, such as ANSYS, ABAQUS, COMSOL, etc, and Gasser’s translational biomechanics research led to A4clinicsRE, commercial biomechanical-based simulation software for clinical decision making.  He wrote and co-edited one book each, co-authored two PCT patents, 130+ peer-reviewed journal publications and 15+ book chapters. So far his work led to more than 20k Google Scholar citations and resulted in an h-index of 59. He was listed as KTH’s most influential researcher in Biomedical Engineering, ranked amongst top 2% worldwide in this field, and in 2022 he was awarded a Humboldt Research Award from Germany. He is Associate Editor of Int. J. for Num. Meth. in Biomed. Engrg, in the editorial board of Mechanics of Soft Materials and was a EMMCC member. He gave the 2024 Odqvist lecturer, a distinction awarded by the Swedish national mechanics committee. Gasser is currently board member of the Swedish National Committee for Mechanical Engineering and represents Sweden at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM). He was Principal founder of ARTEC Diagnosis AB as well as VASCOPS GmbH and serves a legal expert for skiing accident reconstruction at Oberlandesgericht, Graz, Austria.

News and recent activities

Organization of the summer school "Computational Tissue Biomechanics", August 12th to 21rd, 2026. The school introduces and applies state-of-the-art tools in the continuum mechanical analysis of biological tissues. It is designed for master students, PhD students and postDocs having a background in mechanical engineering. It integrates theoretical, numerical and experimental concepts towards the description and analysis of a number of biological tissues. Please find more details at our website and you can register directly at Axaco Air. Be aware that laboratory exercises are limited to a maximum of 50 seats.

Text book on Biomechanics of the Aorta. Modelling for Patient Care

Editors: T. Christian Gasser, Stéphane Avril, John A. Elefteriades.  ISBN: 9780323954846, 2024. Find more information at the publisher's website.

Text book on Vascular Biomechanics

TC Gasser, Vascular Biomechanics- Concepts, Models, and Applications, Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-70965-5, 2021. Find more information at the publisher's website.

...and now also the German translation is available!

Organization of KTH Solid Mechanics seminar series. Seminars are given over zoom and the presentations aim at showing approaches and examples of solid mechanics research within different fields of applications. We have appr. 50 to 100 attendees per seminar, and please have a look at upcoming seminars and the recordings of previously held seminars.