My CV

Date of birth: 09/07/1982

PACS, 2 kids.

• 2018: Habilitation to supervise research HDR, highest French diploma - University of Lorraine.

• 2006 - 2009: PhD in Physics - Université de Rennes 1 - Institut de Physique de Rennes - CNRS UMR 6251. "Etude de l’organisation des réarrangements d’un milieu granulaire sous sollicitations mécaniques". Defended in November 2009.

• 2005 - 2006: Master's degree in Physics - Université de Rennes 1 / Magisterium in fundamental physics - Université Paris XI Orsay. Specialization in surfaces and interfaces.

• 2004 - 2005: Aggregation of physics.

• 2002 - 2004: License's degree - Magisterium in fundamental physics - Université Paris XI Orsay.

• 2021 - 2026: Junior IUF member, Chair of Innovation (Institut Universitaire de France).

• 2018 - present: Associate professor. LEMTA - University of Lorraine - CNRS UMR 7563.

• 2009 - 2018: Assistant professor. LEMTA - University of Lorraine - CNRS UMR 7563.

• 2024 - 2027: Involved in the national research project "PINNterfaces" funded by the french national research agency (ANR). 325 k€.

• 2020 - 2023: Coordinator of the International research project "Pastflow" co-funded by the french national research agency (ANR) and the german research foundation (DFG). 360 k€.

• 2020 - 2024: Involved in the national research project "Palagram" funded by the french national research agency (ANR). 648 k€.

• 2017 - 2021: Coordinator of the European Interreg VA "PowderReg" project involving 5 universities of the Great Region in order to study the "transport, storage and forming of industrially relevant powders". 6 M€.

• 2015 - 2017: Coordinator of the regional project "Rheology of granular pastes: application to fiber suspensions". 46 k€.

Academic collaborations

International

• University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Professor Sergiy Antonyuk.

• University of Saarland, Germany. Professor Christian Wagner.

• University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Professor Bernhard Peters.

• University of Liège, Belgium. Professor Nicolas Vandewalle.

National

• University of Rennes, IPR. Professor Renaud Delannay.

• University of Bordeaux, LOF. CNRS Research Director Guillaume Ovarlez.

• University of Grenoble, LEGI. CNRS Researcher Marie Rastello.

• University of Grenoble, INP. Researcher Florence Naaim.

• University of Toulouse, IMFT. CNRS Researcher Matthieu Mercier.

• IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute), France.

Industrial collaborations

• Granutools (Belgium).

• CEA (Marcoule, France).

• Solvay (Bordeaux, France).

• Saint-Gobain (Paris, France).

• Seqens Group, Novacarb (Nancy, France).

Local responsabilities

• 2021: Internal expertise of Habilitation to supervise research (HDR) for University of Lorraine.

• 2019 - present: Member of the scientific council of the LEMTA laboratory.

• 2019: Participation to the working groups "public contracts" and "european projects" organized by University of Lorraine.

• 2018 - present: Member of the sector council PGCM "physics, geoscience, chemistry and mechanics" at the Faculty of Science (University of Lorraine).

• 2013 and 2016: Member of selection board for the recruitment of two assistant professors (CNU section 60).

• 2013 - 2017: LEMTA laboratory board member.

• 2010 - present: Member of the admission committee of the master "Energies" (University of Lorraine).

• 2009 - present: Member of the board of the physics department of the Faculty of Science (University of Lorraine).

National responsabilities

• 2021: Member of the scientific committee of the GFR 2021.

• 2009 - present: Member of the french group of rheology GFR.

International responsabilities

• 2021 - present: Expert evaluator for the European Commission.

• 2021 - present: Expert evaluator for the Leverhulme Trust (https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/).

• 2021: Scientific expert for the ANR generic call 2021.

• 2018 - present: Member of PhD advisory committees in France (3 defenses) and abroad (Germany).

• 2017 - present: Member of the international COST "Flowing Matter", Action MP 1305. 

• 2009 - present: Reviewer for many international scientific journals (Powder Technology, Advanced Powder Technology, Phys.Rev.E, Rheological Acta, Europhysics Letters, Chemical Engineering Science ...).

• Full papers in international peer-reviewed journals: 36.

• Communications in international* and national** conferences: 50* and 4**.

• Invited seminar: 7.

• Invited member of the recruitment jury for a lecturer position juries: 3.

IPR - Rennes physics institute (2023)

LEMTA (2012, 2016)

• Invited member of thesis juries: 6.

Chloé Garat (2022) - examiner (LOF / Solvay, University of Bordeaux, France)

Salvatore Pillitteri (2021) - international member (GRASP laboratory, University of Liège, Belgium) 

Adrien Gans (2021) - rapporteur (IUSTI, University of Aix-Marseille, France)

Noémie Dagès (2021) - rapporteur (Physics Laboratory of the ENS Lyon, France)

Shirin Enferad (2020) - examiner (LEMTA, University of Lorraine, France)

Riccardo Maione (2017) - examiner (LRGP, University of Lorraine, France)

• Invited member of HDR juries: 1.

Olivier Botella (2020) - examiner (LEMTA, University of Lorraine, France)

• Total number of citations (March 2024): 606.

• h index (March 2024): 15.

See here the details of my publications.

3 Postdoc Researchers

• 2020 - 2021: Enzo D’Ambrioso-Azzara, "Flow and rheology of cohesive powders".

• 2020 - 2021: Arthur Pascot, "DEM simulations of silo discharge".

• 2018 - 2019: Caroline Chalak, "Rheology of dense suspensions on an inclined plane".

7 PhD students

• 2022 - present: David Luce, "Control of the flowability of cohesive powders: from particles to end-use properties".

• 2020 - 2023: Ghita Marouazi, "Spreading of granular paste under vibrations".

• 2020 - 2023: Mickaël Delcey, "Deep-learning applied to gravity current". Thesis Prize PhD-Entrepreneur U. of Lorraine

• 2020 - 2023: Jean Schneider, "Particle-laden gravitation flows".

• 2017 - 2020: Arthur Pascot, "Rheology and properties of silo discharge of granular media: application to hopper flow".

• 2015 - 2018: Naïma Gaudel, "Rheology and flow control of granular dispersions by applying vibrations". Thesis Prize AFFDU

• 2011 - 2014: Caroline Hanotin, "Rheology of vibrated granular media". Thesis Prize GFR

Participation in thesis supervision: Shirin Enferad (2017 - 2020), Olga Chernoburova (2015 - 2018), Riccardo Maione (2014 - 2017).

14 Master internships

• 2022: David Luce (University of Lorraine), "Silo discharge of cohesive media".

• 2020: Kamal Ennass (ENSEM Nancy), "DEM simulations of granular spreading".

• 2020: Ghita Marouazi (University of Lorraine), "Influence of cohesion on silo discharge".

• 2020: Jean Schneider (University of Lorraine), "Particle-laden gravitational flows".

• 2019: Jimmy Schupp (University of Lorraine), "Effect of vibrations on hopper discharge".

• 2019: Syed Mosawi (RMIT University, Australia), "Rheology of colloidal suspensions".

• 2019: Syrim Umbetov (University of Lorraine), "Influence of humidity on powder rheology".

• 2019: Houssine Benbadelhalim (University of Lorraine), "Spreading and rheology of plaster pastes". 

• 2017: Jinoy Tharu (ENSEM Nancy), "Experimental study of granular flows on inclined planes".

• 2015: Naïma Gaudel (University of Lorraine), "Flow of granular dispersions under vibrations".

• 2013: Jeremy Haag (University of Lorraine), "DEM simulations of vibrated granular media".

• 2011: Caroline Hanotin (ENSE Grenoble), "Flow of vibrated granular media".

• 2010: Lionel Perrin (University of Lorraine), "DWS characterization of vibrated granular suspensions".

• 2010: Quentin Ribeyre (University of Lorraine), "Modeling of vibrated granular suspensions".

Lecturer at the Faculty of Science (Nancy, France) principally in fluid mechanics.

See here the details of my teaching activities.