Callan Luetkemeyer

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Education

• PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2020
• MS Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2016
• BS Biomedical Engineering, Saint Louis University, 2014

Academic Positions

• Faculty Affiliate, UIUC, Institute for Genomic Biology, 2024-present (0%)
• Faculty Affiliate, UIUC, Department of Bioengineering, 2023-present (0%)
• Faculty Affiliate, UIUC, Beckman Institute, 2023-present (0%)
• Faculty Affiliate, UIUC, Materials Research Lab, 2023-present (0%)
• Assistant Professor, UIUC, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, 2023-present
• Schmidt Science Fellow, CU Boulder, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2020-2022

Research Interests

• Constitutive modeling: anisotropy, hyperelasticity, viscoelasticity
• Structure-function relationships: soft tissue mechanics and extracellular matrix
• Deformation imaging, full-field experimental mechanics
• Full-field inverse mechanics methods

Selected Articles in Journals

• Bastias CS, Savard LM, Jacobson KR, Connell KA, Calve S, Ferguson VL, Luetkemeyer CM (2024). Pregnancy and age differentially affect stiffness, injury susceptibility, and composition of murine uterosacral ligaments. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 163: 106874.
• Luetkemeyer CM, CP Neu, S Calve (2023). A method for defining tissue injury criteria reveals that ligament deformation thresholds are multimodal. Acta Biomaterialia. 168: 252-263.
• McCreery KP, CM Luetkemeyer, S Calve, CP Neu (2023). Hyperelastic characterization reveals proteoglycans drive the nanoscale strain-stiffening response in hyaline cartilage. Journal of Biomechanics. 146: 111397.
• Luetkemeyer CM, Scheven UM, Estrada JB, Arruda EM (2021). Constitutive modeling of the anterior cruciate ligament bundles and patellar tendon with full-field methods. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 156: 104577.
• Luetkemeyer CM, Rosario RA, Estrada JB, Arruda EM (2020). Fiber splay precludes the direct measurement of ligament material properties: implications for ACL graft selection. Journal of Biomechanics. 113: 110104.
• Estrada JB, Luetkemeyer CM, Scheven UM, Arruda EM (2020). MR-u: material characterization using 3D displacement-encoded magnetic resonance and the virtual fields method. Journal of Experimental Mechanics. 1-18.
• Scheven UM, Estrada JB, Luetkemeyer CM, Arruda EM (2020). Robust high resolution strain imaging by alternating pulsed field gradient stimulated echo imaging (APGSTEi) at 7 Tesla. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 310: 106620.
• Luetkemeyer CM, Marchi BC, Ashton-Miller JA, Arruda EM (2018). Femoral entheseal shape and attachment angle as potential risk factors for anterior cruciate ligament injury. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 88: 313-321.
• Luetkemeyer CM, Cai L, Neu CP, Arruda EM (2018). Full-volume displacement mapping of anterior cruciate ligament bundles with dualMRI. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 19: 7-14.

Teaching Honors

• Included in the "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students" in 2024

Research Honors

• Schmidt Science Fellowship (2020 )
• Savio L-Y Woo Young Researcher Award (2020 )
• Ivor K. McIvor Award for Excellence in Applied Mechanics Research (2020 )