Research activities

• Co-Supervisor of 3 PhD, 1 Post-doc, and 4 internships in master degree. In addition, I supervise 2 interships a year in 3rd year of Licence degree.

• Regular referee (once a month) for PRL, PRB, PRM, Acta Materialia, Philosophical Magazine and several others.

• Organization of symposiums and workshops

• Co-organizer of the annual meeting ’Plasticité’ of the french community on plasticity, Poitiers April 2016 ( 100 intendees).
• Co-organizer of the annual meeting of the scientific group MECANO (Mechanics of Nano-Objects) in Poitiers Avril, 2011 (60 participants).
• Co-organizer with David Rodney, Emmanuel Clouet and Jun Chen of the symposium ’plasticité à l’échelle nanométrique : de la dislocation aux nano-objets’ during the JMC2010 (Journées de la Matière Condensée) in Troyes (France) (50 participants).
• Co-organizer of the international conference EDS 2008 in Poitiers (100 intendees).

• Member of research network: GDR-international MECANO and GDR MODMAT.

• Mechanical propertiers of nano-objects (FCC metals and semiconductors) using atomistic methods (classical molecular dynamics and DFT): onset of plasticity in free defect nanostructures, brittle to ductile transition in silicon at low size,dislocation core configurations under stress, and dislocation interaction with defects.
• Mechanical properties of nano-architechtured material like nano-porous metals, role of interfaces on mechanical properties
• Mechanical behavior of silicon nanowire during lithiation and delithiation (onset of fracture).

• Sept 2018 - May 2019 : visiting professor at ETH-Zurich, in the group of Mathieu Luisier. Lithiation of Silicon nanowires.

• 2016-2017 Collaboration with M. Luisier ETH-Zurich, through the European Program ’Hubert Curien’ about the lithiation of silicon nanowires.

• Since Sep. 2012 - collaboration with the experimental group of Olivier Thomas IM2NP (Marseille) and the simulation group of Tristan Albaret - ILM, Lyon, about the ’Brittle Ductile transition at low scale in silicon’, ANR-12-BS04-0003 ’BiDuL’.

• 2012-2016 Collaboration with Pr. Michael Demkowicz - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Boston, I spent 5 months at MIT as an invited scientist from April to August 2012. Study of mechanical properties of metal-semiconductor core-shell nanowires.

• 2011-2014 Collaboration with P. Carrez - UMET - Université de Lille - about the modeling of dislocation properties in MgO for the study of the earth mantle deformation.

• Nov. 2009 - Nov. 2011 collaboration with J. Michler - EMPA - Switzerland, through the European Program ’Hubert Curien’ supervised by L. Thilly (Pprime - University of Poitiers) about the onset of plasticity in semiconductor nanopillars by in situ deformations.

• 2007 - 2009 collaboration with Pr. Hannes Jonsson - University of Iceland - Reykjavik - through the European Program ’Hubert Curien’ supervised by L. Pizzagalli (Pprime - University of Poitiers) about the modeling of extended defects in semiconductor.

• Jun - July 2003 training period at the ’Dep. de Fisica de la Materia Condensada’, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in the group of Professor José Soler (developpers of the SIESTA code). Collaboration during my PhD on dislocation nucleation at surface defects in silicon, using ab-initio techniques.

• Sep 2012 - Sep 2016 ANR Grant # ANR-12-BS04-0003-01 BiDuL ’Brittle Ductile transition at low scale in silicon’ I raised ∼ 500000 euros, for a collaboration between experimentalists and simulators on 3 labs (IM2NP-Marseille, ILM-Lyon and Pprime Poitiers) for a total of 10 researchers.

• 2012 - Grant from region ’Poitou-Charentes’ 9500 euros for a stay in MIT as visiting scientist.