Curriculum Vitae of John Rasmussen Born: March 31, 1963 in Aalborg, Denmark Nationality: Danish Married, two children aged 19 and 23. Home address Øster Sundby Vej 30 DK-9000 Aalborg Denmark Contact information Email: [email protected] Mobile: +45 2089 8350 Blog: http://biomechanicsforeverybody.wordpress.com/ Current positions Professor of Biomechanics. Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, Fibigerstræde 16, DK-9220 Aalborg East, Denmark http://www.m-tech.aau.dk/ Chief Technology Officer, AnyBody Technology A/S Niels Jernes Vej 10 DK-9220 Aalborg East Denmark http://www.anybodytech.com Academic background: Aalborghus Statsgymnasium Artium, Math.-phys. June 1981. Aalborg University (AAU) M.Sc., Mech. Engineering. June 1986. Aalborg University, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Ph.D. August 1989. Copenhagen Business School, Research Management, 2010. Professional career: AAU, Dept. Mech. Engng. Ph.D. student, 1986 - 1989 AAU, Dept. Mech. Engng. Assistant Professor, 1989 - 1992 Rational Engineering Chief Engineer, 1992 -2002 AAU, Dept. Mech. Engng. Associate Professor, 1992 – 2008 AAU, Dept. Mech. Engng. Board Member, 2000 – 2002 AnyBody Technology, A/S, Chief Executive Officer, 2001 – 2007 Center for Human Appliances and Technology, Chairman of the Board, 2005 – 2011. AnyBody Technology, A/S, Chief Technology Officer, 2007 – present AAU, M-Tech. Professor of biomechanics, 2008 – present AAU, Faculty of Science and Technology, Board member of the Doctoral School. Bio The common denominator of John Rasmussen’s (JR) scientific career is innovation and the desire to try new approaches, scientifically and in terms of management principles. JR started his scientific career as a PhD student mentored by Prof. Niels Olhoff and set out to change the theoretical field of structural optimization by applying the finite element method as the analysis engine, thus enabling optimization of practical structures rather than academic examples. JR promoted the idea of collaborative software development projects among many PhD students and was one of four developers of the optimization systems CAOS and ODESSY. They were coded bottom-up in 300,000 lines of C and C++ code and comprised general linear and nonlinear finite element solvers, membrane, solid, plate and shell elements, anisotropic material models, mesh generation, post processor, parametric CAD models and above all sensitivity analysis with respect to shape and topology. JR developed and published the MBB Beam with Olhoff and Bendsøe, which became a benchmark example for topology optimization. Knowledge about optimality principles inspired a new way of simulating the musculoskeletal system, which JR developed together with his colleague, Michael Damsgaard in the mid-90’ies. Together, they implemented the first versions of the AnyBody Modeling System, proved the concept, and obtained funding from the Danish Research Council. In 2001, the idea was so well developed that a company, AnyBody Technology, http://www.anybodytech.com/, was spun out and attracted several rounds of venture capital. This system now, in close competition with Opensim from Stanford University, dominates the international scientific community within musculoskeletal simulation. About 500 scientific papers by authors all over the world, http://www.anybodytech.com/index.php?id=publications, are based on AnyBody, bringing its scientific impact much beyond the publications documenting the original invention. For the first five years, JR was the CEO of AnyBody Technology in parallel with his scientific activities. During this period, the company grew significantly until it was necessary to employ a full-time management. JR today remains CTO and board member of the company in parallel with his position as full professor. Recently, JR has initiated a new branch of interdisciplinary biomechanics. Research into the aetiology of pressure ulcers has led to new results in tissue engineering obtained in cooperation with Aalborg University’s Stem Cell Lab. The group has demonstrated the ability to produce muscle tissue with aligned fibres by innovative methods of controlling the strain state during proliferation and differentiation. The implications of this work go much beyond the field of pressure ulcers. Its further pursue requires close cooperation between mechanical engineers, tissue engineers and biologists. In his spare time, JR particularly enjoys sports. He played ice hockey at the elite level and won three Danish youth championships. Later he played recreational football, but in the past seven years he has taken up tennis and practises it on a semi-serious age group level. Selected research grants, awards and honours: 1998: The Danish Research Council: Mechanical simulation and optimization of musculo-skeletal systems, DKK 2 968 800 2001: The Ford Motor Company: Simulation of automotive seat comfort. Further information available on request. 2001: The Danish Research Council: Detailed biomechanical computer simulation of unexpected spinal loads, DKK 3 046 389 (with the University of Copenhagen) 2003: The Seated Human, DKK 2 000 000. (With RBM A/S, VELA A/S, and AP Furniture A/S) 2004: Springer book prize for best presentation at the 5th ASMO-UK / ISSMO Symposium in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. 2004: The Danish Research Council: Numerical modeling of kinematically over- and under-determinate musculoskeletal systems. DKK 1 800 000. 2005: Automotive Engineering International Tech Award at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit, USA. 2005: Society of Automotive Engineers Award for Excellence in Oral Presentation at the 2005 Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering Symposium, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. 2006: The Seated Human II (With RBM A/S and AP Furniture A/S). DKK 850 000 2006: Society of Automotive Engineers Award for Excellence in Oral Presentation at the 2006 Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering Symposium, Lyon, France. 2006: The world’s best badminton racket (With Active Sportswear and the Ministry for Science and Technology). DKK 1 650 000. 2007: The seated human III: DKK 1 600 000 2007: The disability foundation’s research award. DKK 100 000 2008: Minimization of ulceration risk by optimization of the seated posture. Vækstforum. DKK 2 312 856. 2008: SpineFX. FP7 ITN. Local budget = €160 000 2009: AnyBody Inside. Funding from the Danish Advanced Technology Foundation. DKK 16 000 000. 2009: TLEMsafe, FP7 STREP. Local budget = €678 900. 2009: A-FOOTPRINT. FP7 NMP. Local budget = €443 317 2012: The Steno Award by the Danish Society of Biomechanics. 2012: Patient@Home. SPIR project awarded by the Strategic Research Council. Direct finding for AAU: DKK 2 467 471 2013: LifeLongJoints. FP7 NMP. Local budget = €1 078 000 2013: Winner of the Grand challenge competition to predict knee loads in-vivo. https://simtk.org/home/kneeloads. 2014: KNEEMO. Marie Curie ITN. Total funding: €4 193 837. 2014: Individualized Osteoarthritis Interventions. Funding from Innovation Fund Denmark, Aalborg University, CCBR A/S and AnyBody Technology A/S. DKK 21 000 000. PhD supervision Anders Schmidt Kristensen Jens Fynbo Maxine Kwan Michael Skipper Andersen Christian Gammelgaard Olesen Sonia d’Souza Saeed Davoudabadi Farahani Morten Enemark Lund Linda Valdmanova Frederik Heinen Miguel Nobre Castro Jonas Stoltze Review work (selected) Journal of Biomechanics Journal of Engineering in Medicine Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization The Visual Computer Journal of Mechanical Design Journal of Sports Engineering Journal of Biomechanical Engineering Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering Experimental Biomechanics Annals of Biomedical Engineering Clinical Biomechanics Sports Engineering Editorial board memberships: Int. J. of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS) Journal of Computational Design and Engineering (JCDE) Publications Recent Articles (peer-reviewed) [1] Hejazi, Shima; Rouhi, Gholamreza; Rasmussen, John [2017]: The effects of gastrocnemius-soleus muscle forces on ankle biomechanics during triple arthrodesis. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 20 (2), 130-141 [2] Heinen, Frederik; Lund, Morten E.; Rasmussen, John; de Zee, Mark [2016]: Muscle- tendon unit scaling methods of Hill-type musculoskeletal models: an overview. Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Proceedings. Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine 230(10):976- 84 [3] Farahani, Saeed Davoudabadi; Svinin, Mikhail; Andersen, Michael Skipper; de Zee, Mark; Rasmussen, John [2016]: Prediction of closed-chain human arm dynamics in a crank- rotation task. Journal of Biomechanics, 2016 [4] Putzer, Michael; Ehrlich, Ingo; Rasmussen, John; Gebbeken, Norbert; Dendorfer, Sebastian [2016]: Sensitivity of lumbar spine loading to anatomical parameters. Journal of Biomechanics 49(6): 953-958 [5] Farahani, Saeed Davoudabadi; Andersen, Michael Skipper; de Zee, Mark; Rasmussen, John [2016]: Optimization-based dynamic prediction of kinematic and kinetic patterns for a human vertical jump from a squatting position. Multibody System Dynamics 36(1): 37-65 [6] Cronskar, Marie; Rasmussen, John; Tinnsten, Mats [2015]: Combined finite element and multibody musculoskeletal investigation of a fractured clavicle with reconstruction plate. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 18(7):740-748 [7] Lund, Morten Enemark; Andersen, Michael Skipper; de Zee, Mark; Rasmussen, John [2015]: Scaling of musculoskeletal models from static and dynamic trials.