Benoit Revil-Baudard is a Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida at UF/REEF. He holds a Doctoral degree from Ecole des Mines de Paris, and has co-authored a monograph, co-edited one book, and has authored or co-authored over 50 refereed papers and conference proceedings. He has extensive experience in computational solid mechanics, with an emphasis on modelling ductile behaviour. Of particular note are his accomplishments on the development and implementation of fully-implicit robust algorithms for integration of rate-dependent anisotropic elastic/plastic constitutive modelsand analysis of forming processes for hexagonal materials.