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

• 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

• 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.

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 )