01/2025-Present:
Head of the Research Group “Mécanique de Film Minces Fonctionnels” (Mechanics of Functional Thin Films) @LSPM/CNRS.
02/2020-Present:
Permanent Researcher. French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at Laboratoire des Sciences des Procédés et des Matériaux (LSPM).
02/2020-11/2024:
Guest Group Leader. Max-Planck-Institut for Sustainable Materials (MPISusMat), Former Max Planck Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE), Germany. Honorary position holds together with the CNRS one, enabling to manage/heading my group at MPISusMat.
11/2018-01/2020:
Group Leader @ MPISusMat. Department of Structure and Nano-/ Micromechanics of Materials, Prof. G. Dehm.
Head of the group “Thin Films & Nanostructured Materials”.
11/2016-10/2018:
Post-doctoral researcher. Department of Energy, NanoLab, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), Prof. A. Li Bassi.
06/2015-10/2016:
Post-doctoral researcher. Department of Engineer, STM lab., University of Roma TRE (Italy), Prof. M. Sebastiani.
01-2011-10/2011:
Research fellow. Italian Institute of technology (IIT/CNST, Italy).
06/2022:
Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR). Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN).
Manuscript title: “Synthesis & Micro scale characterization of advanced metallic films”.
05/2015:
Double PhD from the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, France) and the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium) International Doctoral School in Functional Materials (IDS-FunMat).
PhD thesis title: “Size dependent mechanical behavior ZrNi thin metallic glass films”. The full PhD thesis manuscript can be found in: https://theses.hal.science/tel-01310217v1
2010:
Double master degree in Materials Engineering form both Politecnico di Milano & Torino (Italy). Final mark 110/110 cum laude (the highest Italian distinction).
2008:
Bachelor degree in Materials Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Final mark 110/110.
A complete list of my journal publications can be found in different research profiles in Google Scholar, Orcid, Scopus, Web of Science and HAL. Full papers (or preprints) can be found in my HAL profile https://cv.hal.science/matteo-ghidelli?langChosen=fr.
Some statistics, from Scopus database (Author ID: 5438798660):
● 47 (+3 submitted) publications in peer-reviewed journals; 42 publications in the first Quartile (Q1);
● 1 review paper; 15 corresponding author; 13 fist author or equally contributed, 7 last author;
● h-index 23, 1869 citations.
+First author/equal contribution, *corresponding author, ‡Last author.
Name underlined: PhD students/postdocs I supervise.
In blue publications with high impact [>50 citations (Scopus) and/or journal impact factor (i.f.) >7.0]
2025
1. F. Bignoli, A. Lemarchand, S. Kalàcska, D. Thiaudiere, P. Djemia, D. Faurie, A. Li Bassi, M. Ghidelli*‡, Extending mechanical size effect range of thin film metallic glasses by nanoengineering their atomic and nanostructure, Acta Materialia, 300, 121456 (2025).
D. Vacirca, F. Bignoli, A. Li Bassi, Y. Dai, A. Ahmadian, G. Abadias, P. Djemia, G. Dehm, J. P. Best, M. Ghidelli*‡, Ultrafine CoCrCuFeNi high entropy alloy thin films with high strength, plastic deformability and thermal stability achieved via grain engineering and nanoclustering, Submitted to Materials Today (2025)
A. Brognara, C. Jung, C. Poltronieri, P. Djemia, G. Dehm, M. Ghidelli*, J.P. Best, Thermal modification of ZrCu metallic glass nanolaminates: Structure and mechanical properties, Submitted to Acta Materialia (2025).
E. Boltynjuk, F. Bignoli, S. H. Nandam, D. Faurie, A. Welle, R. Kruk, P. Djemia, H. Hahn, Y. Ivanisenko, M. Ghidelli‡, Nanocolumnar ZrCu thin film metallic glass with tailored mechanical and electrical properties, Thin Solid Films, 825, 140748, (2025).
C. Poltronieri, A. Brognara, C. Jung, F. Challali, P. Djemia, G. Dehm, J.P. Best, M. Ghidelli*‡, Effect of chemical composition on mechanical properties and shear band propagation in fully-amorphous ZrCu/ZrCuAl nanolaminates, Scripta Materialia, 259, 116571, (2025).
2024
R. Daudin, H. Idrissi, M. Coulombier, P. Lhuissier, A. Béché, J. Verbeeck, D. Schryvers, M. Ghidelli, J.P. Raskin, J.-J. Blandin, T.U. Schülli and T. Pardoen, Strain- and temperature-induced dilatancy in ZrNi thin film metallic glasses with nanoscale structural heterogeneities. Journal of Materials Research, 39, 3421–3435 (2024).
A. Brognara, A. Kashiwar, C. Jung, Z. Xukai, A. Amahdian, N. Gauquelin, J. Verbeek, P. Djemia, D. Faurie, G. Dehm, H. Idrissi, J.P. Best, M. Ghidelli*‡, Tailoring mechanical properties and shear band propagation in ZrCu metallic glass nanolaminates through chemical heterogeneities and interface density. Small Structures, 2400011, 1-11, (2024).
F. Bignoli, P. Djemia, G. Terraneo, G. Abadias, C. Gammer, A. Lassnig, C. A. Teixeira, S. Lee, A. Ahmadian, A. Li Bassi, D. Faurie, M. Ghidelli*‡, Novel class of crystal/glass ultrafine nanolaminates with large and tunable mechanical properties, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16, 27, 35686–35696 (2024).
F. Farzam, B. Bellon, D. Chatain, J. Jose, B. Breitbach, M. Ghidelli, M. J. Duarte, G. Dehm, Decomposition and dewetting of super-saturated Cu-15 at. % Co solid solution film, Materials & Design 241, 112892, (2024).
J. Smiri, O.U. Salman, M. Ghidelli, I.R. Ionescu, Accounting for localized deformation: a simple computation of true stress in micropillar compression experiments, Experimental Mechanics, 64, 1435–1442 (2024).
M. K. Kini, S. Lee, A. Savan, Benjamin Breitbach, M. Ghidelli, A. Ludwig, C. Scheu, D. Chatain, J.P. Best, G. Dehm, Equiatomic CoCrFeNi thin films on c-sapphire: orientation relationships and the role of twins, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2400720, 2024.
2023
C. Poltronieri, F. Bignoli, A. Brognara, P. Djemia, D. Faurie, F. Challali, C.H. Li, L. Belliard, G. Dehm, J.P. Best, M. Ghidelli‡, Thermal stability and mechanical properties of ZrCuAlx thin film metallic glasses: Experiments and first-principles calculations, Acta Materialia, 258, 119226, (2023).
W. Boukhemkhem, M. Izerrouken, M. Ghidelli, T. Pardoen, A. Sari, A.Y. Kheiredine, A. Meftah, Swift heavy ion irradiation effect on structural, morphological and mechanical properties of Zr70Ni30 metallic glass, Physica Scripta, 98, 085311, (2023).
2022
F. Bignoli, S. Rashid, E. Rossi, S. Jaddi, P. Djemia, G. Terraneo, A. Li Bassi, H. Idrissi, T. Pardoen, M. Sebastiani, M. Ghidelli*‡, Effect of annealing on mechanical properties and thermal stability of ZrCu/O nanocomposite amorphous films synthetized by pulsed laser deposition, Materials & Design, 221, 110972, (2022).
A. Brognara, J.P. Best, P. Djemia, D. Faurie, G. Dehm, M. Ghidelli‡, Effect of the composition on mechanical properties and thermal stability of Zr100-xCux thin film metallic glasses, Materials & Design 219, 110752 (2022).
A. Brognara, B. R. Bricchi, L. William, O. Brinza, M. Konstantakopoulou, M. Ghidelli, N. Lidgi-Guigui, New Mechanism for Long Photo-Induced Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in Au Nanoparticles Embedded in TiO2, Small, 18(25), 2201088 (2022).
B.R. Bricchi, L. Mascaretti, S. Garattoni, M. Mazza, M. Ghidelli, D.B. Geohegan, A. Naldoni, A. Li Bassi, Nanoporous titanium (oxy)nitride films as broadband solar absorbers, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14, 18453–18463 (2022).
Q.K. Muhammad, H. Bishara, L. Porz, C. Dietz, M. Ghidelli, G. Dehm, T. Frömling, Dislocation-mediated electronic conductivity in rutile, Materials Today Nano, 17, 100171 (2022).
2021
G. Wu, C. Liu, A. Brognara, M. Ghidelli*, Y. Bao, S. Liu, X. Wu, W. Xia, H. Zhao, J. Rao, D. Ponge, V. Devulapalli, W. Lu, G. Dehm, D. Raabe, Z. Li, Symbiotic crystal-glass alloys via dynamic chemical partitioning, Materials Today, 51, 6-14 (2021).
H. Bishara, S. Lee, T. Brink, M. Ghidelli, G. Dehm, Understanding grain boundary electrical resistivity in Cu: the effect of boundary structure, ACS Nano, 15 (10), 16607–16615 (2021).
B.R. Bricchi, M. Sygletou, L. Ornago, G. Terraneo, F. Bisio, C. Mancarella, L. Stasi, F. Rusconi, E. Mogni, M. Ghidelli, P. Biagioni, A. Li Bassi, Optical and electronic properties of transparent conducting Ta:TiO2 thin and ultra-thin films: effect of doping and thickness, Materials Advances, 2, 7064-7076 (2021).
V. Devulapalli, H. Bishara, M. Ghidelli, G. Dehm, C.H. Liebscher, Influence of substrates and e-beam evaporation parameters on the microstructure of nanocrystalline and epitaxially grown Ti thin films, Applied Surface Science, 562, 150194 (2021).
M. Ghidelli*+, A. Orekhov, A. Li Bassi, G.Terraneo, P. Djemia, G. Abadias, M. Nord, A. Béché, N. Gauquelin, J. Verbeeck, J.-P. Raskin, D. Schryvers, T. Pardoen, H. Idrissi, Novel class of nanostructured metallic glass films with superior and tunable mechanical properties, Acta Materialia, 213, 116955, 2021.
M. K. Kini, S. Lee, A. Savan, B. Breitbach, Y. Addab, W. Lu, M. Ghidelli, A. Ludwig, N. Bozzolo, C. Scheu D. Chatain, G. Dehm, Nanocrystalline equiatomic CoCrFeNi alloy thin films: Are they single phase fcc? Surface and Coatings Technology, 410, 126945, 2021.
F. Borghi, C. Piazzoni, M. Ghidelli, P. Milani, A. Podestà, Nanoconfinement of Ionic Liquid into Porous Carbon Electrodes, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125, 2, 1292-1303, 2021.
2020
H. Bishara, M. Ghidelli, G. Dehm, Approaches to Measure Resistivity of Grain Boundaries in Metals with High Sensitivity and Spatial Resolution: A Case Study Employing Cu, ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2(7), 2049-2056, 2020.
S. Lee, S.-W. Kim, M. Ghidelli+, H. Seok An, J. Jang, A. Li Bassi, S.-Y. Lee, J.-U. Park, Integration of Transparent Supercapacitors and Electrodes Using Nanostructured Metallic Glass Films for Wirelessly Rechargeable, Skin Heat Patches, NanoLetters, 20(7), 4872-4881, 2020.
A. Brognara, I.F. Mohammad Ali Nasri, B.R. Bricchi, A. Li Bassi, C. Gauchotte Lindsay, M. Ghidelli, N. Lidgi-Guigui, Highly sensitive detection of estradiol by a SERS sensor based on TiO2 covered with gold nanoparticles, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 11, 1026–1035, 2020.
L. Mascaretti, A. Niorettini, B. R. Bricchi, M. Ghidelli, A. Naldoni, S. Caramori, A. Li Bassi, S. Berardi, Syngas Evolution from CO2 Electroreduction by Porous Au Nanostructures, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3, 4658–4668, 2020.
M. Ghidelli+, L. Mascaretti, B.R. Bricchi, A. Brognara, T. Afifi Afifi, V. Russo, C.S. Casari, A. Li Bassi, Light management in TiO2 photoanodes integrated with Au plasmonic nanoparticles, Semiconductor Science and Technology, 35, 035016, 2020.
2019
H. Idrissi, M. Ghidelli, A. Béché, S. Turner, S. Gravier, J.-J. Blandin, J.-P. Raskin, D. Schryvers, T. Pardoen, Atomic-scale viscoplasticity mechanisms revealed in high ductility metallic glass films, Scientific Reports, 9, 1-11, 2019.
R. Matarrese, M. Mascia, A. Vacca, L. Mais, E.M. Usai, M. Ghidelli, L. Mascaretti, B.R. Bricchi, V. Russo, C.S. Casari, A. Li Bassi, I. Nova, S. Palmas, Integrated Au/TiO2 nanostructured photoanodes for photoelectrochemical organics degradation, Catalysts, 9, 340, 2019.
J. Ast, M. Ghidelli+, K. Durst, M. Goeken, M. Sebastiani, A.M. Korsunsky, A review of experimental approaches to fracture toughness evaluation at the micro-scale, Materials & Design, 173, 107762, 2019 – (Review paper).
2018
B.R. Bricchi, M. Ghidelli*, L. Mascaretti, A. Zapelli, V. Russo, C.S. Casari, G. Terraneo, I. Alessandri, C. Ducati, A. Li Bassi, Integration of plasmonic Au nanoparticles in TiO2 hierarchical structures in a single step pulsed laser co-deposition, Materials & Design, 156, 311-319, 2018.
M. Ghidelli+*, L. Mascaretti, B.R. Bricchi, A. Zapelli, V. Russo, C.S. Casari, A. Li Bassi, Engineering plasmonic nanostructured surfaces by pulsed laser deposition, Applied Surface Science, 434, 1064-1073, 2018.
2017
M. Ghidelli+*, M. Sebastiani, K. E. Johanns, G. M. Pharr, Effects of indenter geometry on micro-scale fracture toughness measurement by pillar splitting, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 100, 5731-5738, 2017.
R. Yivlialin, G. Bussetti, L. Brambilla, C. Castiglioni, M. Tommasini, L. Duò, M. Passoni, M. Ghidelli, C.S. Casari, A. Li Bassi, Microscopic Analysis of the Different Perchlorate Anions Intercalation Stages of Graphite, Journal of physical chemistry C, 121, 14246-14253, 2017.
M. Ghidelli+*, H. Idrissi, S. Gravier, J.-J. Blandin, D. Schryvers, J.-P. Raskin, T. Pardoen, Homogeneous flow and size dependent mechanical behaviour in highly ductile Zr65Ni35 metallic glass films, Acta Materialia, 131, 246-259, 2017.
2016
M. Ghidelli+, M. Sebastiani, C. Collet, R. Guillemet, Determination of the elastic moduli and residual stresses of Au-TiW freestanding bilayer thin films by nanoindentation, Materials & Design, 106, 436-445, 2016.
2015
M. Ghidelli+*, S. Gravier, J.-J. Blandin, P. Djemia, F. Mompiou, G. Abadias, J.-P. Raskin, T. Pardoen, Extrinsic mechanical size effects in thin ZrNi metallic glass films, Acta Materialia, 90, 232-241, 2015.
2014
M. Ghidelli+*, S. Gravier, J.-J. Blandin, J.-P. Raskin, F. Lani, T. Pardoen - Size-dependent failure mechanisms in ZrNi thin metallic glass films, Scripta Materialia, 89, 9-12, 2014.
V. Russo, M. Ghidelli, P. Gondoni, C.S. Casari, A. Li Bassi - Multi-wavelength Raman scattering of nanostructured Al-doped zinc oxide, Journal of Applied Physics 115, 073508, 10 pp, 2014.
M. Ghidelli+, A. Volland, J.-J. Blandin, T. Pardoen, J.-P. Raskin, F. Mompiou, P. Djemia, S. Gravier - Exploring the mechanical size effects in Zr65Ni35 thin film metallic glasses, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 615, S90-S92, 2014.
M. Ghidelli+*, S. Gravier, J.-J. Blandin, T. Pardoen, J.-P. Raskin, F. Mompiou - Compositional-induced structural change of ZrNi thin film metallic glasses deposited by magnetron sputtering, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 615, S348-351, 2014.
2013
L. Passoni, F. Ghods, P. Docampo, A. Abrusci, M. Ghidelli, M. Binda, S. Guarnera, C. S. Casari, A. Li Bassi, H. J. Snaith, A. Petrozza, F. Di Fonzo - Hyperbranched quasi-1d nanostructures for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells, ACS Nano, 7 (11), 100023-10031, 2013.
P. Gondoni, M. Ghidelli, F. Di Fonzo, A. Li Bassi, C.S. Casari - Fabrication of nano-engineered transparent conducting oxides by pulsed laser deposition, Journal of Visualized Experiments, 72, e50297, doi:10.3791/50297, 2013.
P. Gondoni, M. Ghidelli, F. Di Fonzo, V. Russo, P. Bruno, J. Martí-Rujas, C.E. Bottani, A. Li Bassi, C.S. Casari - Highly performing Al:ZnO Thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition at room temperature, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, 5, 484-486, 2013.
2012
P. Gondoni, M. Ghidelli, F. Di Fonzo, M. Carminati, V. Russo, A. Li Bassi, C. S. Casari -Structure-dependent optical and electrical transport properties of nanostructured Al-doped ZnO, Nanotechnology, 23, 365706 - 8pp, 2012.
P. Gondoni, M. Ghidelli, F. Di Fonzo, V. Russo, P. Bruno, J. Martí-Rujas, C.E. Bottani, A. Li Bassi, C.S. Casari - Structural and functional properties of Al:ZnO thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition at room temperature, Thin Solid Films, 520, 4707-4711, 2012.
Organization/Chair of International conferences:
● 2025: (Co-)organizer/Chair of the Symposium 303: “Mechanical Properties and Plasticity of Small-scale Materials”, XVIII International Conference on
Computational Plasticity. Fundamental and Applications (COMPLAS), Barcelona (Spain). Abstract selection/scientific chair.
● 2024: Scientific chair of conference InMa 2024: “Characterization and properties of interface-dominated materials (InMa)”, Aachen (Germany).
● 2023-Present: (Co-)organizer/chair of the symposium “CM2: Advanced Mechanical Testing of Surfaces, Thin Films, Coatings and Small Volumes” International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF), San Diego (USA).
National Responsabilities:
● 2023-Present: Steering committee member of the national research group HEA (High Entropy Alloys), Groupement de Recherche (GDR) HEA (France).
Local (LSPM/USPN) Responsabiltites:
● 2025-Present: Representative for the LSPM of the Fédération FERMI (Federation pour l’enseignement et la Recherche sur la métallurgie en Île-de-France).
● 2025-Present: Member of the "Comité de recherche” (Research committee) of the clean room facility of the University Sorbonne Paris Nord.
● 2023-Present: Member of the jury for the Fédération FERMI (Federation pour l’enseignement et la Recherche sur la métallurgie en Île-de-France) for the master (M2) thesis award.
● 2022-Present: Advisor for LSPM for the scientific integrity within the USPN.
● 2021-Present: Coordinator with U. Salman and F. Casez (LSPM) of the LSPM intradepartmental research activity “Mécanique du Nano au Macro” (Mechanics from Nano to Mircoscale).
Peer Review activity:
● Project reviewer for German Research Foundation DFG (1), Austrian Science Fund FWF (1), French National Agency ANR (2), Poland National Science Centre NCN (1).
● Revision of ~15 papers/year in peer review journals (Total 375 papers). Materials & Design, Materials science & Engineering A, Nature Communications, Surface and Coating Technology, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Acta Materialia … Verified on Web of Science: ID 1170521
● RIPEC C3 (Régime Indemnitaire des Personnels Enseignants et Chercheurs) CNRS. The Composante C3 is a performance-based incentive aimed at rewarding exceptional research activities granted by the CNRS.
● Winner of a Fulbright Research Scholar (FBR) to develop a scientific project in at the Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL, USA) with Prof. David B. Geohegan.
● Winner of young researcher scholarship financed by the Italian embassy in South Korea to develop a research project at the Flexible Nano-electronics and Biotechnology lab. Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea).
● Outstanding contribution in reviewing from: Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Surface & Coatings Technology, Optics and Laser Technology, Materials & Design, Coatings.
● Winner of the International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM 2013) scholarship.
Securing competitive research grants is essential in today’s scientific landscape. They provide the financial resources needed to access cutting-edge
equipment (Instrument Acquisition), recruit talented students and postdocs (Current group) , build strong collaborations and keeping competitive
research (Reserch projects). Below a detailed list, only those in which I am Principal Investigator (P.I.) or Co-Principal Investigator (Co-P.I.):
Total collected >2M€, since 2020.
2024
● P.I. of a research grant from the Institute Galilée (USPN). “A Breakthrough Physical Vapor Deposition Platform for Nanostructured Thin Film Synthesis” (NEXT-PVD). Total granted: 15 k€
● P.I. with M. Robin (LSPM) of a French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research of a fully fund PhD scholarship. “NANOengineering INTerfaces and adhesion in INTerface-dominated materials” (Nano-INT2). Total granted: 125 k€.
2024
● Co-P.I. with U. Salman (LSPM) and C. Gammer (ESI) of French Agence Nationale de la Recherche - Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (ANR-FWF) PRCI project. Collaboration between LSPM and Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science (ESI, Austria). “Nanoengineering metallic glasses through chemical and structural heterogeneities (Super-Glasses), Grant number: ANR-24-CE91-0002-01 and ANR-24-CE91-0002-02). Total granted: 778.521 k€ (388.248 k€ @LSPM).
● P.I. with J. Nelayah (MPQ) of a project LabEx SEAM, fully fund PhD thesis (thèse structurante). “Tailoring structure & mechanical behavior of thin film High Entropy Alloys by Oxygen incorporation (O-HEAs)”, Grant numbers: ANR-10-LABX-0096 and ANR-18-IDEX-0001. Total granted: 125 k€
● Co-P.I. with G. Abadias (Pprime, Univ. Poitiers) of an ERI + EUR project “High-Entropy Alloy Refractory Thin films for Hydrogen storage” (HEARTH). Joint PhD thesis LSPM-Pprime. The grant fund a joint PhD student between LSPM and Pprime. Total granted 125 + 15 k€.
● P.I of a NAP MOSAIC (Institut Galilée, USPN) equipment project. “Exploring NANOscale Mechanical Properties through advanced NANOindentation” (NANO2). Acquisition of two new high-resolution indenter heads for the FemtoTools (FT-NMT04). Total granted: 6.6 k€
● P.I. of a CNRS PEPS Energie project. “Nouveau dispositif pour l'hydrogénation in situ et la caractérisation mécano-optique” (In-situ H2). The grant funds the development of a new setup for in situ hydrogenation and mechanical-optical investigations. Total granted 14 k€.
● P.I. of a CNRS International Emerging Action (IEA) project. “Storing Hydrogen in High Entropy Alloys for green transition” (H2EAs). The grant finances the collaboration with Prof. H. Idrissi and T. Pardoen (IMaP lab. Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and mobility of researchers and students. Total granted 8 k€.
2023
● Co-P.I. with V. Mille (LSPM) and D. Alloyau (MPQ) of a LABEX “SEAM” equipment project. “Dépôt d’Alliages à haUte entroPie en coucHes mInces et sous forme de Nanoparticules” (DAUPHIN). To upgrade the equipment (sputtering & PLD) for the synthesis of thin film high entropy alloys. Total granted: 80k€ (40 k€ @LSPM).
2022
● Scientific coordinator of SESAME project Île-de-France region: “Micro-essais in situ dans un Microscope électronique à balayage pour l'ingénierie des Microstructures et des Matériaux Multifonctionnels” (5M, Grant number: EX069256). The project has enabled to create @ LSPM a new research activity focusing on in situ SEM techniques providing acquisition of several equipment. Total granted 310 k€.
● Co-P.I. with P. Djemia (LSPM) and J. Ivanisenko / H. Hahn (KIT) of French Agence Nationale de la Recherche - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (ANR-DFG) PRCI project. “Nanostructured Thin Film Metallic GLASSes with superior mechanical/Electrical properties” (EGLASS, Grant number: ANR-22-CE92-0026-01). Collaboration between LSPM and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany). Total granted: 523.4 k€ (256.7 k€ @LSPM).
● Co-funding for a PhD scholarship form the Doctoral school (Ecole doctorale Galilée, Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord, USPN). Total granted: 62.5 k€
● P.I. with C. Ricolleau (MPQ) of a project LABEX SEAM, co-funding PhD thesis. “Novel thin film high entropy alloys with unique atomic structure and enhanced
mechanical properties” (Nano-HEAs, Grant numbers: ANR-10-LABX-0096 and ANR-18-IDEX-0001). Total granted: 62.5 k€
2021
● P.I. of a projet d’établissement (ex Bonus Qualité de la Recherche, BQR) Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN) “Nouveaux essais mécaniques in situ un microscope électronique pour la caractérisation locale avancée des alliages métallique à haute entropie”. Total Granted: 15 k€.
● P.I. of a French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) Jeunes Chercheurs et Jeunes Chercheuses (JCJC) project (Young Researcher project), “MICRO-scale mechanical characterization of thin film High Entropy Alloys” (MICRO-HEAs, Grant number : ANR-21-CE08-0003-01). Partnership with MPISusMat. Total granted: 232.6 k€.
● P.I. with J. Best (MPISusMat) of a Partenariat Hubert Curien (PHC) Procope project for French (LSPM) – German (MPISusMat) cooperation. “Novel thin film Metallic GLASSES with unique mechanical/electrical properties” (NEW-GLASSES, Grant number: 46735ZG). The grant finances the mobility LSPM ↔ MPISusMat of A. Brognara and C. Poltronieri. Total granted: ~12 k€.
2020
● P.I. with D. Faurie and A. Li Bassi (NanoLab, Polimi, Italy) of a Vinci project of the Université Franco-Italienne (UFI). “Vers de nouveaux alliages multi-éléments amorphes en couches minces aux propriétés mécaniques et stabilité thermique élevées” (Grant number : C3-2286). The grant finances the joint PhD thesis of Mr. Francesco Bignoli cotutelle between LSPM (USPN, France) and NanoLab (Polimi, Italy). Total granted: 125 k€.