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 LNCMI, France.

Published on Mar 6, 2019.

I am group leader for the development of high-strength materials at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses. I obtained an Engineer diploma in physics/materials science from the National Institute for Applied Sciences in Toulouse (INSA) in 1991, concurrently to receiving a Master’s degree from the University of Toulouse. I received a PhD degree in Materials Science in 1995 from the National Institute for Applied Sciences in Toulouse. During my PhD work, related to R&D of high-strength conductors, I had strongly interacted with the two industrial research centers: TREFIMETAUX Research Center (Sérifontaine, FR) and Alcatel ALSTOM Recherche (Marcoussis, FR). I am primarily active in metal processing by use of severe plastic deformation, physical properties and modeling of copper/stainless steel macrocomposites, copper alloys, copper/X (with bcc/fcc combination as Cu/Nb, Cu/Ta, Cu/Ag) and carbon nanotubes-copper nanocomposite; all high-strength materials for high magnetic field applications. Within the EMFL, I am the leader for the thematic network „Materials for high-field magnets“ and I organized the first international workshop on “Materials for high-field magnets” in 2011, which was followed by a second one organized by the National MagLab in 2015. In the EMFL, I am also actively involved in fostering and strengthening the relations with industrial partners with the ambitious goal to set up a strategy for bringing EMFL innovations to market.