Physics for Medicine, France
Clément Papadacci received his PhD in acoustics from the Langevin Institute in 2014, where he pioneered ultrafast cardiac ultrasound using diverging waves, now a reference method cited over 280 times. He also developed innovative approaches to image myocardial fiber orientation using spatial coherence. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University with Prof. Elisa Konofagou, developing 3D ultrafast elastography methods validated in animal models and human volunteers, leading to publications. Since 2017, he has been a tenured Inserm researcher at Physics for Medicine Paris, focusing on translational ultrafast ultrasound from theory to clinical applications. He has developed 4D ultrafast frameworks for cardiac flow and elasticity imaging in humans, earning multiple awards. In 2022, he co-founded the spin-off emyosound to apply shear wave elastography to cardiac applications. He has secured multiple national grants and, in 2022, an ERC Starting Grant (MicroflowLife), with recent in vivo results published in Nature Communications. He earns more than ten international awards and ten patents in the field of ultrasound.