Latest news of the group
New position: CNRS scientist at the LEM3
From January 1st, 2020, I am most happy and pround to be part of the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research). As tenured CNRS research scientist (Chargé de recherche) assigned to the LEM3 laboratory (CNRS - Lorraine University - Arts et Métiers ParisTech), I will pursue my work on the atomistic origin of defects and their consequences on mechanical properties, and on building bridges with continuum mechanic approaches.
18-19 Nov.: 1st Colloquium on Theoretical and Experimental Micro-Mechanics
I will give the oral presentation "Slip across complex interfaces: the case of Mg based Laves phases" at the 1st Colloquium on Theoretical and Experimental Micro-Mechanics that will be held in Metz (France) on November 18th and 19th, 2019. This colloquium is co-organized by Université de Lorraine (Dr. S. Berbenni) and Universität des Saarlandes (Prof. C. Motz).
The program can be downloaded here.
Prof. Sandra Korte-Kerzel awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Head of the Institute for Physical Metallurgy and Materials Physics (IMM), Prof. Sandra Korte-Kerzel has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research CouncilSandra Korte-Kerzel has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This prestigious funding of 1.5 million euros over 5 years will be dedicated to this study: "Fundamental Building Blocks - Understanding plasticity in complex crystals based on their simplest, intergrown units". As member of the IMM, it was a pleasure to work on some of the preliminary work of this research project.
1-5 July: IIB Conference in Paris
On April 5th, 2019, I'll present my work at the Intergranular and Interphase Boundaries in Materials (IIB) conference held in Paris from the 1st to the 5th of July. In particular, I'm glad to show new numerical and experimental evidences of matrix slip across complex precipitate interfaces obtained at the IMM of the RWTH Aachen.
Invited talk at the 62th GUMP days in Orsay
I'm glad to have been invited by the GUMP to talk about the consequences and the mitigation of FIB irradiation induce defects in materials, from an atomistic point of view, during its 62th meeting in Orsay, near Paris, on the 13th June 2019.
New article on dislocation-precipitates interaction in Mg accepted in Materialia
I'm pleased to announce that our work entiteld "Atomistic Simulations of Basal Dislocations Interacting with Mg17Al12 Precipitates in Mg" has been accepted in Materialia, and is available online [DOI], for free here (until july 2019) and on arXiv.