Prof. Yves Rémond is a Distinguished Professor (Exceptional Class) at Strasbourg University in France. He is working at Icube (Engineering Science, Computer Science, and Imaging Laboratory), which is affiliated with both the University of Strasbourg and the CNRS. He teaches in the fields of continuum mechanics, polymer mechanics, composite materials, and mechano-biology at the European Engineering School of Chemistry, Polymers, and Materials Science (ECPM). He graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (now Paris-Saclay) with a degree in mechanics and obtained his PhD from the University Paris VI in 1984. (Pierre et Marie Curie). He has been the Scientific Deputy Director of INSIS, the Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences, at the CNRS headquarters in Paris since 2012. He was also a member of the Academic Palms Order as an officer.

In the fields of composite materials, polymers, and bioengineering, he advised over 30 PhD and Habilitation students and wrote about 150 scholarly papers.