Dr. James C. Weaver
Dr. James C. Weaver is a Senior Scientist at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
He received his bachelor's degree in aquatic biology and Ph.D. in marine science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and went on to pursue postdoctoral studies in molecular biology, chemical engineering, physics, and earth history.
Working at the interface between zoology, materials science, biomedical engineering, and multi-material 3D printing, his main research interests focus on investigating structure function relationships in hierarchically ordered biological composites and the fabrication of their synthetic analogs.
Articles
Kolmann, M. A., Marques, F. P. L., Weaver, J. C., Dean, M. N., Fontenelle, J. P., Lovejoy, N. R. 2022. »Ecological and phenotypic diversification after a continental invasion in neotropical freshwater stingrays.« Integrative and Comparative Biology. icac019.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac019
Amini, S., Razi, H., Seidel, R., Werner, D., White, W. T., Weaver, J. C., Dean, M. N., Fratzl, P. 2020. »Shape-preserving erosion controlled by the graded microarchitecture of shark tooth enameloid.« Nature Communications, 11 (1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19739-0
Jayasankar, A., Seidel, R., Hosny, A., Weaver, J., Fratzl, P., Chen, J., Dean, M. 2020. »Multi-scale modeling and mechanical performance characterization of stingray skeleton-inspired tessellations.« Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 138: 103906.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103906
Baum, D., Weaver, J. C., Zlotnikov, I., Knötel, D., Tomholt, L., Dean, M. N. 2019. »High-Throughput Segmentation of Tiled Biological Structures using Random-Walk Distance Transforms.« Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59 (6): 1700-1712.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz117
Hosny, A., Dilley, J. D., Kelil, T., Mathur, M., Dean, M. N., Weaver, J. C., Ripley, B. 2019. »Pre-procedural fit-testing of TAVR valves using parametric modeling and 3D printing.« Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, 13 (1): 21-30.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcct.2018.09.007
Seidel, R., Roschger, A., Li, L., Bizzarro, J. J., Zhang, Q., Yin, J., Yang, T., Weaver, J. C., Fratzl, P., Roschger, P., Dean, M. N. 2019. »Mechanical properties of stingray tesserae: High-resolution correlative analysis of mineral density and indentation moduli in tessellated cartilage.« Acta Biomaterialia, 96: 421-435.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2019.06.038
Hosny, A., Keating, S. J., Dilley, J. D., Ripley, B., Kelil, T., Pieper, S., Kolb, D., Bader, C., Pobloth, A., Griffin, M., Nezafat, R., Duda, G., Chiocca, E. A., Stone, J. R., Michaelson, J. S., Dean, M. N., Oxman, N., Weaver, J. C. 2018. »From Improved Diagnostics to Presurgical Planning: High-Resolution Functionally Graded Multimaterial 3D Printing of Biomedical Tomographic Data Sets.« 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, 5 (2): 103-113.
https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2017.0140
Jayasankar, A., Seidel, R., Naumann, J., Guiducci, L., Hosny, A., Fratzl, P., Weaver, J., Dunlop, J., Dean, M. 2017. »Mechanical behavior of idealized, stingray-skeleton-inspired tiled composites as a function of geometry and material properties.« Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 73: 86-101.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2017.02.028
Guiducci, L., Razghandi, K., Bertinetti, L., Turcaud, S., Rüggeberg, M., Weaver, J. C., Fratzl, P., Burgert, I., Dunlop, J. W. C. 2016. »Honeycomb Actuators Inspired by the Unfolding of Ice Plant Seed Capsules.« PLOS ONE, 11 (11): e0163506.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163506
Guiducci, L., Weaver, J. C., Bréchet, Y. J. M., Fratzl, P., Dunlop, J. W. C. 2015. »The Geometric Design and Fabrication of Actuating Cellular Structures.« Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2 (11): 1500011.
https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201500011
Invited Moderation/ Comment
Clark, N., Weaver, J. C., Dierichs, K., Perraudin, L. Earthly Matter. Deep Material Futures Exploring the Different Temporalities of Active Matter, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin. Hybrid. 16 November 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/9051/deep-material-futures