Biography: Dr. Hector Gomez is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy), the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research, and a Faculty University Scholar at Purdue University. Prof. Gomez specializes in computational mechanics with particular emphasis in simulation at the interface of engineering and medicine, isogeometric modeling and analysis, and multiphysics systems. Prof. Gomez’s research has been recognized with multiple awards including the Juan C. Simo Award from the Spanish Society of Computational Mechanics, the MIT Innovators Under 35, the Young Investigator Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain, the Gallagher Young Investigator Award from the US Association for Computational Mechanics and the Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award (presented by the King of Spain to the best young researcher in all fields of science, engineering and humanities). He has also received the Acorn Award from Purdue University, and the Fellow Award from the US Association for Computational Mechanics. Prof. Gomez has published over 110 journal papers and made over 200 contributions to conferences.