Mathias Fink, born in 1945 in

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, is a French physicist, professor at

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and member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Life and career

Mathias Fink received a M.S. degree in mathematics from

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, and the Ph.D. degree in solid state physics. Then he moved to medical imaging and received the ''Doctorat es-Sciences'' degree from Paris University in the area of ultrasonic focusing for real-time medical imaging under the direction of Pierre Alais (1978). In 1981 he was appointed Professor at the

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. After a stay as a visiting professor at the University of Irvine in the radiology department he returned to France to become professor at the

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(Paris 7). In 1990 and founded the "Waves and Acoustics Laboratory" at ESPCI whose director he was and which became the ''Institut Langevin'' in 2009. 2005 he was appointed professor at ESPCI, where he now is professor emeritus and holds the

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chair. Fink pioneered the development of time-reversal mirrors and Time Reversal Signal Processing. He developed many applications of this concept from ultrasound therapy, medical imaging, non-destructive testing, underwater acoustics, seismic imaging, tactile objects, to electromagnetic telecommunications. He also pioneered innovative medical imaging methods: transient elastography, supersonic shear imaging and multi-wave imaging that are now implemented by several companies. Six companies with close to 400 employees have been created from his research: Echosens, Sensitive Object, Supersonic Imagine, Time Reversal Communications, Cardiawave, and GreenerWave.

Honors and awards

* 1994 ''Grand prix de la créativité''

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* 1995 Foucault prize of the

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* 2002 elected to the French Academy of Engineering * 2003 elected to the

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* 2006 Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal of the

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* 2007 Officer of the French Legion (since 2017 Commander) * 2008

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prize of the French Physical Society * 2008/2009 Liliane Bettencourt Chair of Technological Innovation at the

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* 2015 international colloquium in honor of his 70th birthday

Selected works

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fink, Mathias 1945 births French physicists Members of the French Academy of Sciences Commanders of the Legion of Honour Living people Academic staff of ESPCI Paris