2020 Junior Faculty Fellow: Emma Lejeune awarded Career Development Professorship

We are thrilled to announce that our 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow, Emma Lejeune just received the David R. Dalton Career Development Professorship. Emma is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering. She received her doctorate and master’s in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University and her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin.

Emma Lejeune works at the intersection of mechanics, computation, biology, and data science, leveraging state of the art computational tools to investigate multiscale emergent behavior in biological systems and inform patient-specific medical protocols. The present translational research includes developing software to help predict the mechanical behaviour of highly heterogeneous soft tissue. 

Boston University takes the delight of acknowledging and awarding Career Development Professorships every year to a handful of brilliant junior faculty who show capabilities of emerging as future leaders within their respective fields. This reward appreciates the potential, merit, and ceaseless spirit of Boston University’s dynamic faculty and includes a three-year, non-renewable stipend designed to support research, scholarship, and creative work, as well as a portion of the recipients’ salaries. 

These awards are facilitated through the generous support of BU Trustee Peter Paul; Trustee Ruth Moorman (CAS ’88, Wheelock ’89,’09) and her husband Sheldon Simon; Trustee Nathaniel Dalton (LAW ’91) and his wife Amy Gottlieb Dalton (LAW ’91); and proceeds from the University’s Office of Technology Development.