Author Biography
Larry A. Taber is a Senior Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington
University in St. Louis. From 2007 until his retirement in 2017, he was the Dennis
and Barbara Kessler Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Although his formal
training is in aerospace engineering (B.A.E., Georgia Tech; Ph.D., Stanford University), he has published on a wide range of topics including cochlear mechanics,
nonlinear shell theory, cardiovascular mechanics, and the mechanics of growth and
development. Dr. Taber is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Three times he won the Richard Skalak Award for the best paper published in the
Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, and in 2020 was awarded the H.R. Lissner
Medal from ASME. From 2011 to 2016, he served as co-editor-in-chief of the
journal Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.
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Larry A. Taber is a Senior Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington
University in St. Louis. From 2007 until his retirement in 2017, he was the Dennis
and Barbara Kessler Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Although his formal
training is in aerospace engineering (B.A.E., Georgia Tech; Ph.D., Stanford University), he has published on a wide range of topics including cochlear mechanics,
nonlinear shell theory, cardiovascular mechanics, and the mechanics of growth and
development. Dr. Taber is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Three times he won the Richard Skalak Award for the best paper published in the
Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, and in 2020 was awarded the H.R. Lissner
Medal from ASME. From 2011 to 2016, he served as co-editor-in-chief of the
journal Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.
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