About Me

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I am Matteo Ghidelli, CNRS researcher at Laboratoire des Sciences des Procédés et des Matériaux (LSPM-CNRS), heading the Research Group “Mécanique de Film Minces Fonctionnels” (Mechanics of Functional Thin Films) composed by 7 faculty members and 15 temporary researchers and engineers.

I have completed a joint PhD in 2015 at the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, France) and the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium) within the framework of the International Doctoral School in Functional Materials (IDS-FunMat). After postdoctoral positions at the University of Rome Tre (Italy) and Politecnico di Milano (Italy), I served as Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials (MPISusMat, Germany), heading the group of “Thin films & Nanostructured Materials” and, in 2020, I joined the LSPM as a CNRS researcher. 

Here, I am established a new research activity focused on the synthesis of nanostructured thin films and micro-scale mechanical characterization, especially using in situ SEM techniques. My work emphasizes innovative nanoengineering strategies - such as the synthesis of nanocomposites, nanogranular films, and interface dominated materials - designed to enhance and precisely control mechanical properties and deformation behavior.

I am author of 46 papers in peer-reviewed journals and, I am Principal Investigator (P.I., or Co-P.I.) of several research projects including support from national, European, and industrial sources. In 2022, I obtained the “Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR)” from the Sorbonne Pairs Nord University and, at the present, I supervise 5 PhD students and 1 postdoc, working in the filed on nanostructured metallic thin films and their microscale mechanical behavior.