CNRS Research Director Oct 2025 –
GPM, University of Rouen Normandy, France
Honorary Group Leader Oct 2025 –
Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Düsseldorf, Germany
Honorary Professor Oct 2023 –
Department of Physics, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
W2 Permanent Group Leader: Atom Probe Tomography Mar 2020 – Sept 2025
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH , Düsseldorf, Germany
Professor (25%) Sept 2021 – Sept 2025
Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK
ERC-CoG Feb 2018 – Jan 2023
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH , Düsseldorf, Germany
Reader (25%) Oct 2018 – Aug 2021
Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK
Group Leader: Atom Probe Tomography Jan 2016 – Mar 2020
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH , Düsseldorf, Germany
Visiting Academic (honorary position) Apr 2013 – Present
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Senior Publisher / Associate Editor Materials Today Dec 2012 – Dec 2015
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Assistant Professor in Structural Materials Characterisation May 2012 – Nov 2012
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Canada
Senior research fellow / Nuclear Materials Scientist Sept 2010 – April 2012
The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow Feb 2009 – Aug 2010
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Atom Probe Scientist May 2007 – Jan 2009
The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Teaching Assistant Oct 2003 – Dec 2006
University of Rouen, France
Ph.D. Physics, University of Rouen Dec 2006
DEA Materials Science, University of Rouen June 2003
Maîtrise Physics and Chemistry, University of Rouen June 2002
Licence Physics and Chemistry, University Paris 7 June 2001
DEUG Physics and Chemistry, University of Le Havre June 2000
Enegineering Materials (Imperial, 3/4 year) lectures on Ti, Ni, Al 2021–2024
Graduate lectures on atom probe within CDT Characteriation (Imperial) 2020
Graduate lectures on atom probe within SURMAT (MPIE) 2017
Lectures on atom probe within MSc course on microscopy (University of Sydney) 2010 – 2012
1 physics course (8h), Department of Materials (University of Oxford) 2010
Teaching Assistant – Physics (Université de Rouen) 2003–2006
Lectures/tutorials/practicals in optics, electronics, research methodology, non-linear optics
2020 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2019 TMS Light Metals Subject Award – Aluminum Alloys
2018 T.P. Hoar Award, Institute of Corrosion for best paper in Corrosion Science: Peng et al. 2017
2016 – Examiner of 15 PhD theses – Université de Rouen, Chimie-Paris, Université Aix-Marseille, Université libre de Bruxelles, KU Leuven, INP Grenoble, Oxford University, Hasselt University, University of Western Ontario – and 2 Habilitation theses
2018 - Founding Editor of Materialia and Principal Editor
2016 – 2020 Associate Editor of Acta Materialia
2010 – Member of the Steering Committee of the International Field Emission Society
2011 – 2019 Member of the program committee for METSA, the French microscopy platform
2021–2024 Advisory board for the Advanced facility for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
2021–2025 NTNU MiMaC External Advisory Committee (2021-2025)
2018 – 2022 Scientific advisor for FUTURE: Fundamental Understanding of Transport Under Reactor Extremes(FUTURE)
2020 –2023 Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science
2007 – Reviewer for personal fellowship & grant applications from the Australian Research Council, Royal Society, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Agence National de la Recherche, American Chemical Society, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, Netherland’s NOW, Research Foundation – Flanders, Fond de la Recherche Scientifique.
Principles and practice of university teaching and learning (2 days course, University of Sydney, 2012)
Fundamentals of finances (1 day course, Elsevier Ltd. 2013)
an up-to-date list of published work is available on my ORCID page:
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Applied for PhD scholarship at URN
Applied for ANR projects (1 as PI, 2 as co-PI)
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Applied as part of CRC led by RUB
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Horizon Europe proposal on battery recycling
Pre-proposal for DFG Research Unit
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AVH Herz program
Leverhulme Research Centre
W2 Group Leader at MPIE
AVH Herz program
DIP program German-Israeli Project Cooperation
Permanent Group Leader at MPIE
Leibniz Prize 2020 award starts
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Modified and resubmitted DFG Grant after corrections
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Applied for DFG- SFB TR103 + Defence
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Start at Imperial College
Interviewed for CoG
Applied for MPG - Independent Group Leader
Applied for FETOpen
Funding for MaxNet from MPG
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Applied for ETN
Applied for project at BMBF
Applied for VW Experiment!
Applied for Laplace project at MPG
Start at MPIE
Applied for MPG - Independent Group Leader
Applied for senior Job within ELS
Applied for Group Leader position at MPIE
Applied for Senior Job at Nature Comms
Applied for job at Cameca
Applied for senior Job within ELS
Applied for Faculty position at Oxford
Applied for Job at University of Oxford (Research Facilitator)
Start at Elsevier
Applied for Job at Nature Materials
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Applied for CFI-LOF
Applied for Job at University of Oxford ( Development Executive)
Start at McMaster
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Applied for ARC Discovery Project
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Applied for CNRS position
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Applied for RAEng fellowship
Applied for Kurti Fellowship (Oxford)
Applied for Millard and Lee Alexander Post-doctoral Fellowship
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Start in Oxford
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PhD Defense
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Offers, chose Sydney
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