CNRS Head of the UMI

CNRS research director and MIT senior research scientist. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Room : 1-382 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA, 02139
Phone : 617-253-7117
Email : pellenq@mit.edu
Pub : Publications EMI
Link : website

Bio:  Roland Pellenq is Director of Research at CNRS, the French Government Agency for Scientific Research and a MIT Senior Research Scientist. He is a computational materials scientist with a strong interest in the physics and mechanics of micro- and nanoporous materials and confined fluids. He graduated in 1994 with a PhD in Chemical Physics from Imperial College London (UK) and received his Habilitation degree from the University of Orléans (France) in 2000. Dr. Pellenq's research is dedicated to the development of bottom-up simulation approaches (starting at an atomistic level of description) for a large variety of critical problems in energy and environment, ranging from hydrogen and CH4 storage, CO2 sequestration/fracking, shale gas to the stability of nuclear fuels and fundamentals of cement and concrete research. R. Pellenq is the author or co-author of 190+ papers published in major peer reviewed scientific journals. He is the co-founders and lead scientist of the Concrete Sustainability Hub, CSH@MIT, opened in 2009, an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the reduction of the environmental footprint of the cement and concrete industry. He was hired as a MIT Senior Research Scientist in November 2011 and is the head of the MIT / CNRS / Aix-Marseille University joint laboratory "Multi-Scale Material Science for Energy and Environment" located on the MIT campus.

Roland Pellenq Publications since start-date at UMI

MIT Head of the UMI

George Macomber Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Room : 1-263 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA, 02139
Phone : 617-253-3544
Email : ulm@mit.edu
Pub : Publications EMI
Link : website

Bio:  Franz-Josef Ulm is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Co-director of the joint MIT-CNRS Lab MultiScale MaterialScience for Energy and Environment; and faculty Director of Concrete Sustainability Hub@MIT. He received his undergraduate education in Civil Engineering at the Technische Universität München (1990), his PhD from Ecole des ponts et chausses, France (1994); and his Habilitation degree from Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan (1998). He joined MIT in January 1999. Professor Ulm's research interests are in the mechanics and structures of materials. His research group is looking at the nano- and micromechanics of porous materials, such as concrete, rocks and bones; in the durability mechanics of engineering materials and structures; in computational mechanics; and in the bio-chemo-poromechanics of high-performance composite materials. F. Ulm is the author or co-author of 165+ papers published in major peer reviewed scientific journals.

Franz-Josef Ulm Publications since start-date at UMI

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

MIT title: Visiting Scientist CNRS Title: Charge de Recherche
Room : E19-722
Phone : 617-324-4357
Email : fradjai@mit.edu
Pub : Publications EMI

Bio: Farhang Radjai is CNRS Research Director in France. He graduated in 1995 from the University Paris-Sud with a PhD in theoretical physics. He is presently the head of a research team working on the physics and mechanics of granular materials in University of Montpellier and a multi-disciplinary network of researchers on Discrete Materials (Milieux Divisés MiDi). His scientific research covers theoretical and numerical models of granular materials, with focus on the microstructure and complex particle properties and interactions, the rheology of dense suspensions, and various applications to geomaterials, powders and industrial-scale processes. Farhang Radjai joined the CNRS-MIT UMI in 2014, where he has been working on porous materials, railway ballast settlement, and agglomeration process of iron minerals.

Farhang Radjaï Publications since start-date at UMI

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

MIT title: Visiting Scientist - CNRS Title: Charge de Recherche
Room : E19-722
Phone : 617-324-4357
Email : leyssale@mit.edu
Pub : Publications EMI
Link : website

Bio:  Dr Leyssale's research interests focus on the use of molecular simulation methods - molecular dynamics, Metropolis Monte Carlo and associated techniques - to solve problems related to the structure-property relationships and the transformations of disordered carbon-based solids, both stiff and dense synthetic carbons and natural soft porous carbons. Recent results of this research at the interface between chemistry, physics and mechanics involve (i) the nanoscale elucidation of the structure of carbon matrices in C/C composites and the prediction of their elastic and thermal properties, (ii) the effects of large irradiation doses on the structure and properties of graphite, (iii) the mechanisms of fracture initiation in graphene and polycrystalline graphene, (iv) the geological conversion of terrestrial organic matter into kerogen and fluid, and (v) the poroelastic properties of mature and immature kerogen and their effects on hydrocarbon transport, including hydrocarbon desorption at fracture boundaries. s.

Jean-Marc Leyssale Publications since start-date at UMI

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

MIT title: Visiting Scientist CNRS Title: Directeur de Recherche
Room : E19-722
Phone : (617) 324-4357
Email : emig@mit.edu
Pub : Publications EMI
Link : website

Brief CV :
Dipl.-phys., Universität zu Köln
Dr. rer. nat., Universität zu Köln
Postdoc with Prof. J.-P. Bouchaud, Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, CEA-Saclay, France
Postdoc with Prof. M. Kardar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Emmy Noether grant (DFG) for career development group, Universität zu Köln
Since 04/2006 permanent member of CNRS, Universite Paris Sud 11
09/2007 to 08/2010 Heisenberg professor of DFG, Universität zu Köln
Habilitation Universite Paris Sud 11
Since 10/2012 CNRS Research Professor of Physics, Universite Paris Sud 11
Since 10/2014 MIT Visiting Senior Research Scientist, joint CNRS-MIT resreach lab MSE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Thorsten Emig Publications since start-date at UMI

Research

Disorder and quantum fluctuations

Quenched disorder plays an important role in a plethora of condensed matter systems with applications ranging from high-temperature superconductivity to glassy materials with complex thermodynamics and structural properties. The simultaneous effect of quantum fluctuations, frustration and disorder can lead to interesting new phases and properties of materials. The goal is to determine these properties and to understand the emerging phenomena. Subjects of recent interest include vortex systems, stripe phases in superconductors, two dimensional antiferromagnets, coupled Luttinger liquids, glass transitions, localization, and general concepts of disordered systems.The applied techniques range from renormalization groups to exact methods for two dimensional systems.

Fluctuation Induced Interactions

The alternation of fluctuations due to the presence of confining objects or geometries can induce interactions with rather unusual properties. Examples can be found in many contexts including quantum electrodynamic interactions between atoms and macroscopic bodies, quantum vacuum energies (Casimir forces), superfluids and interactions in biological systems. A central goal is to determine and to understand the dependence of these phenomena on the shape (geometry) and material properties of the interacting objects. Applications range from the introduction of Casimir forces in nano- and micromachinery and mesoscopic atomic systems to thermally induced interactions in biological cells.

Non-linear dynamics of granular systems

Granular systems simultaneously share properties of both solid and fluid phases. Their dynamical behavior is determined by concepts of elasticity theory and hydrodynamics. The focus is on non-linear dynamics of avalanches and the formation, propagation and interaction of localized structures as dunes. An important goal is the construction of phenomenological models which capture the essential dynamical phenomena. With such models at hand, experimentally relevant characteristics like avalanche shapes and velocities, organization of dune fields and the selection of dune shapes can be studied.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

MIT title: Visiting Professor CNRS Title: Directeur de Recherche
Room : 1-278
Phone : (617) 324-7780
Email : henrivd@mit.edu
Pub : Publications EMI
Link : website

Bio:  Henri Van Damme, Feb 2014 – Aug 2016
Henri Van Damme is interested in the physical chemistry and statistical physics of geomaterials like glass, clays, shales, or cement, and their interactions with organic matter, with applications in the field of construction and energy. He is also interested in vernacular architecture, conservation, urban sciences and counter-intuitive teaching methods. 

Henri Van Damme Publications since start-date at UMI

Teaching

Introduction to soft-matter physics for civil engineering, one-semester course, 2014

Book (in progress)

Cement and concrete under the nanoscope (with P. Levitz, R.J.-M. Pellenq, and F.J. Ulm), Springer

CNRS researcher

Room : 3-249
Phone : (857) 285-1772
Email : tdivoux@mit.edu
Link : website

Bio: I am a tenured CNRS researcher (CR1) at Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (Bordeaux, France) since 2013, with a joint appointment at the CNRS-MIT unit in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT since 2016. I received my BA (2004) and Msc (2006) degrees from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and my Ph.D. (2009) from the Physics department of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon (France). I succeeded (top 2%) in the prestigious French competitive exam known as the Agrégation in physics and was lecturer for 5 years at ENS Lyon. I joined the CNRS in 2012, where I have built an independent experimental activity in the field of Soft Matter. I have a longstanding expertise in rheology of Soft Glassy Materials, e.g. colloidal gels, dense suspensions and (bio)polymer gels and my main contribution concerns the discovery of long-lived, and yet transient, shear-bands during the shear-induced fluidization of Yield Stress Fluids. These heterogeneous “soft solids" are key to out-of-equilibrium living organisms and omnipresent in major industries (i.e. food-stuff, personal care and oil) with applications in flow batteries and cementitious materials. My current research interests include rheology of gels, drying dynamics of biopolymer gels, microscale scenario underpinning the primary creep in amorphous solids, micro- and nano-indentation of soft heterogeneous materials.

Thibaut Divoux Publications since start-date at UMI

Researcher CRPP/Bordeaux CNRS

MIT Professor Researcher
Room : 1-
Phone : 617 258 7093
Email : backov@mit.edu

Bio: Professor Rénal Backov obtained his PhD in 1997 at the University of Montpellier II, France. He then moved in 1998 to the University of Florida as a research associate, joining the Professor Daniel R. Talham group to address inorganic chemistry, mainly bio-mineralization and coordination chemistry. He was hired as associate Professor at the University of Bordeaux in 2001 while being full Professor since 2010. His current research is performed at the French CNRS "Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal-CRPP" UPR 8641. His main subject of research is the rational design of advanced functional materials through combining the physical chemistry of complex fluids and chemistry. As the synthetic paths employed is pleading for a strong interdisciplinary approach of chemical science, he formalized the concept of Integrative Chemistry in 2006. He was Laureate of the solid state chemistry division of the French Chemical Society in 2013 while being currently (since September 2017) invited Professor at the MIT, Cambridge MA, performing researches on modified cements and shales at the UMI.

Rénal Backov Publications since start-date at UMI

Professor, Aix Marseille Université - MIT

Room : E19-722, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Phone :
Email : villerma@mit.edu
Link : GoogleScholar
 

Bio: Emmanuel Villermaux received his PhD from the University of Paris VI, Pierre & Marie Curie, in Grenoble where he was appointed at CNRS, and obtained his habilitation form Joseph Fourier University. He now holds a position of distinguished Professor at Aix Marseille University, and at the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a Fellow of APS, and of Euromech. His interests are in the mechanics of deformable bodies in the broad sense, from fluids to solids, with a particular taste for mixing and fragmentation.

Emmanuel Villermaux Publications since start-date at UMI

Néel, B. and Villermaux, E. 2018
The spontaneous puncture of thick liquid films.
it J. Fluid Mech. \bf 838, 192–221.

Martinez-Ruiz, D., Meunier, P., Favier, B., Duchemin, L. and Villermaux, E 2018
The diffusive sheet method for scalar mixing.
J. Fluid Mech. bf 837, 230-257.

Kree, M. and Villermaux, E  2017
Scalar mixtures in porous media.
Phys. Rev. Fluids bf 2, (10), 104502.

Villermaux, E., Moutte, A., Amielh, M. and Meunier, P 2017
Fine structure of the vapor field in evaporating dense sprays.
Phys. Rev. Fluids \bf 2, (7), 074501.

Villermaux, E 2017
Self-Activated Fragmentation.
Int. J. of Fracture, bf 206, (2), 171--193.

Inoue, C., Izato, Y., Miyake, A. and Villermaux, E 2017
Direct self-sustained fragmentation cascade of reactive droplets.
Phys. Rev. Letters,  bf 118, 074502.

Souzy, M., Lhuissier, H., Villermaux, E. and Metzger, B  2017
Stretching and Mixing in sheared particulate suspensions. 
J. Fluid Mech., bf 812, 611--635.

De Rivas, A. and  Villermaux, E 2016
Dense spray evaporations as a mixing process. 
Phys. Rev. Fluids bf 1, (1), 014201.

Vledouts, A., Vandenberghe, N. and Villermaux, E. 2016
Fragmentation as an aggregation process: The role of defects. 
Proc. Roy. Soc. A bf 472, 20150679 (Plus Issue cover).

Vledouts, A., Quinard, J. Vandenberghe, N. and  Villermaux, E. 2016
Explosive Fragmentation of Liquid Shells. 
J. Fluid Mech., bf 788, 246--788 (Plus Issue cover).

Vledouts, A., Vandenberghe, N. and Villermaux, E. 2015
Fragmentation as an aggregation process. 
Proc. Roy. Soc. A bf 471, 20150678.

Researcher - LPTMS of CNRS and Université Paris-Sud - MIT

Room : E19-722, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Phone :
Email : mlenz@mit.edu
Link : Biophysics group

Bio: After a PhD in Institut Curie in Paris and a postdoc at the University of Chicago, Martin is now a group leader at CNRS and Université Paris-Sud in Orsay, France. His main contributions concern the mechanics of biological systems in two quite different but ultimately related areas: the structure and dynamics of the cytoskeleton on the one hand, and the mechanics of protein-induced remodelling of the cell membrane on the other. Both of these problems involve understanding how non-equilibrium driving forces establish the structure of the cell. In these problems, the existing knowledge of the biological actors at the molecular scale is still only partial, and Martin's work focuses on producing robust theoretical results insensitive to unknown molecular details. The goal of his visit at the UMI is to apply these insights to granular materials, including cement.

Martin Lenz Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral researcher (MIT)

Room : E19-722
Email :
Pub : Publications EMI
Link : Googlescholar

Bio: Dr. Patrick Mutabaruka received the BS in Physics and Applications at University of Strasbourg in 2008, master degree in Computational Engineering at University of Strasbourg in 2010 and PhD in Mechanical and Civil Engineering in 2013 at University if Montpellier. He worked as post-PhD instructor (ATER) in 2014 at University of Montpellier for the Mechanical department where he also has been working as teaching instructor during his PhD. Dr. Patrick joins the Mechanical Engineering department at MIT in December 2014 as postdoctoral associate where he worked on numerical modeling of dense and dilute particulate slurry flows for two years where he worked with Prof. Ken Kamrin, he then joins, in December 2016, the Civil Engineering and Environmental department (at MIT) as postdoctoral associate for the international joint unit (UMI) between CNRS and MIT where he works with Senior Research Scientist Roland Pellenq, Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm and Senior Research Scientist Franck Radjai. Since he joins the UMI unit, he has been working on the origin of the differential settlement that occur on some portion of the high-speed trains railways.
Dr. Patrick research activity is mostly focused on geomaterials by means of numerical modelling using various discrete/continuum methods  (Molecular Dynamics, Contact Dynamics, Lattice Boltzmann, …) for fully/partial saturated or dry materials. His research interest deals with both fundamental and industrial topics by explaining the local-microstructural origins of the macroscopic behavior for distinct materials (powder, sands, gravels, rocks, …). In more general, geomaterials in nature are either in solid, fluid or gas state or can have both phases (landslide, debris flow, rock fill dams, …); at large scale, continuum modelling approach are used to study separately each phase, however, some local events occurs to be the origin of the mechanical phase-changes and behavior where the observed macroscopic behavior can only be expressed from local-microstructural scale, in additional, the geomaterials like rock fill dams in presence of a fluid need a strong coupling that can handle these local events and the observed macroscopic behavior that leads often to mechanical instabilities.
For the last couple years, Dr. Patrick has been working on mechanical instabilities, runout of avalanches, rheology of fluid-grains mixture, …. His work on mechanical instabilities shows, for example, that the triggering mechanisms of an immersed avalanches occur after the granular skeleton anisotropy levels off within a time delay that depend on fluid negative pore-pressure. Another major result from his works, shows that the rheology of a fluid-grains mixture under a confining pressure with a sheared fluid can be scaled by a modified Inertial number (from the classical Inertial number used for dry granular materials) by introducing Stokes number.

Patrick Mutabaruka Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral Associate (MIT Energy Initiative)

Room : 1-372
Phone : +1 617 715 4766
Email : asheeshs@mit.edu
Pub : Publications EMI
Link : Googlescholar

Bio: Asheesh has been a part of UMI since April 2018. At UMI, he is working towards understanding, quantifying and improving bitumen performance as a road making material. He is attempting to measure fracture toughness of bitumen, and relating that with the micro structure of bitumen.
Asheesh obtained his BTech-MTech (dual degree) in Chemical engineering, from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 2008. Thereafter, he worked in refinery division of Reliance Industries Limited in Jamnagar India. After working refinery for 3 years, he rejoined IIT Kanpur to obtain his PhD, working with Prof. Yogesh M. Joshi. He is interested in utilizing rheology as a tool to gain insight into the behavior and microstructure of soft materials.

Asheesh Shukla Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral researcher (MIT)

Room : 1-XXX
Email : hekate@mit.edu
Pub : Publications EMI

Bio: Dr. Ioannidou uses statistical physics and computational approaches to understand the interplay of structure and mechanics in amorphous materials such as cement. Her recent work of the mesoscale texture of cement hydrates provides a link between subnano chemistry and micronscale mechanical properties. At the <MSe>2 she has been working on durability issues such drying shrinkage, freeze-thaw and ASR reaction damage.

Katerina Ioannidou received her undergraduate degree in Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. She obtained a MSc in Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and her PhD in Science from the Department of Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich in 2014. She has been a post-doctoral researcher at MIT in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in the Concrete Sustainability Hub at MIT and in the joint MIT-CNRS laboratory MultiScale Material Science for Energy and Environment.

Katerina Ioannidou Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral researcher (MIT)

Room : E19-722, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Phone : +336 15 48 02 46
Email : magnin@mit.edu
Link : website

Bio: Yann Magnin is a Postdoctorat Researcher at MIT. He is an enthusiastic computational materials scientist with a strong interest in the physics and atomistic numerical simulations. His work is mainly focused on ordered/disordered carbon nanostructures and metallic nanoparticles. He graduated in 2011 with a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics (Spin transport in magnetic materials), from LPTM-CNRS Cergy-Pontoise (France). Since 2011, he is following his research in different place and topics around carbon atoms : Biophysic (APCTP, Pohang, South Korea). Graphene structural properties (ILM, Lyon, France). Growth simulations of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (CINaM, Marseille, France). Wetting properties and morphology control of metallic nanoparticles on carbon substrates. Large scale atomistic simulations of multi-porous kerogen, mechanical properties, adsorption and diffusion (MIT, Cambridge, USA)…

Magnin Yann Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral researcher (MIT)

Room : E19-722, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Phone : 617-324-4357
Email : plvalden@mit.edu

Bio: Pierre-Louis Valdenaire comes from the Massif Central in France. He moved to Cambridge to work as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT after completing his PhD in Material Science at the Onera in Paris. His passion for science leads him to study many subjects, including Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science. In his free time, he enjoys sailing on the Charles River and hiking with his friends.

Pierre Louis Valdenaire Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral researcher (MIT)

Room :1-
Phone :
Email : nchanut@mit.edu
Link : GoogleScholar

Bio: After undergraduate studies in chemistry and a master’s degree majoring in catalysis and physical chemistry received from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France), I obtained a teaching and research grant from the French government to complete a PhD in the MADIREL laboratory at Aix-Marseille University. While working in the Gas Storage and Separation group headed by Philip L. Llewellyn, I had the opportunity to separately investigate the effect of water vapor and the effect of external mechanical pressure on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) CO2 separation performance as well as the influence of pelletization on their fundamental adsorption properties. My contract has then been extended for 5 months in the same group as part of the project HYSTOR (DS0204) on the use of new carbon-based hybrid materials for hydrogen storage. In October 2017, I joined the international joint unit (UMI) Multiscale Material Science for Energy and Environment as a postdoctoral associate in Roland Pellenq’s group. My current work -as part of the project FASTER in collaboration with TOTAL- focus on the characterization of Kerogen materials and especially of their adsorption properties.

Nicolas Chanut Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral researcher (MIT)

Room : E19-722, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Phone : +1 617 324 4375
Email : rdupuis@mit.edu
Link : romaindupuis.com

Bio: Romain Dupuis is a postdoctoral researcher who earned his Ph.D. in 2014 at the Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III in France. His main research interest is the simulation of materials at the atomic scale by the means of state-of-the-art atomistic simulations. At MIT, he works on multi-scale simulations of CSH chemo-poro mechanics upon ASR gel formation and freeze-thaw.

Romain Dupuis Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral researcher (MIT)

Room : E19-722, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Phone :
Email : nberger@mit.edu

Bio: Nicolas Berger received a Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics at the University of Lille, France in 2009, followed by a Masters of Science degree in Numerical Simulation in Mechanics in 2011. He completed his Ph.D. research in the group of Prof. Farhang Radjai at the University of Montpellier, France in 2016. His thesis work mainly focused on the rheology of cohesive granular flows and its application to iron ore agglomeration. He joined the UMI - <MSE>2 in April 2017 for his post-doctoral studies on the premature differential ballast settlement in railway tracks.

Nicolas Berger Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral researcher (MIT)

Room : E19-722, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Phone :
Email : mailto:belandlk@mit.edu
Link : GoogleScholar
 

Bio: Laurent Karim Béland, PhD
Dr. Béland joined the MSE2 CNRS-MIT joint laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in October 2016. His fellowship is partly funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. His research focuses on the computer simulation of complex materials. He develops and uses atomistic simulation tools. He has a particular interest for methods that extend the timescales accessed by atomistic and mesoscale simulations. Notably, he developed the kinetic Activation Relaxation Technique, a fully atomistic, self-learning, code able to exactly handle elastic interactions and simulate kinetics of complex materials over time periods of seconds, hours or even days. He is also interested in improving the predictive power of atomistic simulations and developped hybrid quantum-classical force-fields and also improved force-fields to predict primary radiation-damage in metals and alloys under neutron and ion irradiation.

At the MSE2, Dr. Béland pursued his research in metals and alloys in use in nuclear reactors while beginning investigating the long-time kinetics of cement paste at the atomistic scale. In particular, he has focused on the uptake and diffusion of alkali elements in C-S-H, including Na, K and Cs. The interaction of Na and K with cement paste has important implications in the context of the alkali-silica reaction in concrete. Cs-137 is a radioactive by-product of nuclear power generation; its interaction with cement paste is of crucial technological importance since concrete is a prime candidate as a structural material for long-term spent fuel storage facilities.

He obtained his doctorate in physics from the Université de Montréal in 2014 and spent two and a half years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His PhD research focused on simulating nanostructures and amorphization in semi-conductors, while his first postdoctoral fellowship focused on simulating the formation and kinetics of radiation damage in structural materials for nuclear power applications.

In January 2018, he will be appointed as an assistant-professor at the department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Laurent Karim Beland Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral researcher (MIT)

Room : E19-722
Phone : 617-324-4357
Email : amael@mit.edu
Pub : Publications EMI
Link : GoogleScholar

Bio: Amael Obliger is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. He received his PhD from the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris, France), where he worked on multi-scale modelisation of electrokinetic transport through charged porous media. His PhD work was funded by the french national agency for radioactive waste management. He joined the X-Shale Team at MIT in december 2014. His work at the UMI focused on transport properties of hydrocarbons in shales’ organic matter at the micro- and the meso-scale. Since June 2017, he is a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley.

Amael Obliger Publications since start-date at UMI

Room : E19-722
Email :
Link : GoogleScholar

Bio: Jeremie Berthonneau is a postdoctoral fellow in the joint MIT-CNRS laboratory “MultiScale Material Science for Energy and Environment” working under the supervision of Roland Pellenq, Daniel Ferry, and Olivier Grauby. He is a geologist by formation (University of Poitiers, France), specialized in geochemistry and mineralogy. He received his PhD in Environmental Geosciences from Aix-Marseille University in 2013, where he worked on the impact of swelling mineral layers in the spalling decay of building limestones with the French Ministry of Culture and the CNRS. His research now focusses on the geochemical processes affecting organic matter and clay minerals, the evolution of reactive surfaces, and their impact on physical properties (mechanics and transport) of sedimentary rocks. The applications of his studies are directed toward a better understanding of the concomitant evolution of clay minerals and organic matter with respect to the thermal maturity of organic-rich source rocks. His researches are supported by an extensive use of transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopic techniques (EDS, FTIR, Raman, Mössbauer). He is also involved in the development of electron tomography (Bright field and STEM) applied to (geo)materials.

Jérémie Berthonneau Publications since start-date at UMI

Postdoctoral researcher (MIT)

Room : E19-722, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Phone :
Email : jarayro@mit.edu
Link : GoogleScholar

Bio: Jack Arayro was born in 1989, in “Mina” (the harbor in English), a small coastal town where he accomplished his undergraduate education and graduated in Physics. Arayro said that he embarked upon “his journey towards the research islands” in the wake of the nuclear disaster that hit Fukushima. Hence, he moved to Claude Bernard University in Lyon, France for his graduate studies in Nuclear Physics and obtained an MSc in Physics with a specialization in nuclear materials.
His passion for nuclear materials led him to join the Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) – the French public expert in nuclear and radiological risks, where he conducted his PhD researches. His main studies focused on ensuring that radioactive elements remain confined inside the nuclear reactor. His work has been recognized by the “Movement of the Enterprises of France” and awarded the best innovative project of the year 2014. Arayro assured that his biggest accomplishment till date has been his PhD in Physics, which he obtained from Aix-Marseille University in 2015 with a thesis on Physics of Condensed Matter and Nanoscience.
While on the shores of Marseille, Arayro met Professor Roland J. Pellenq who repeatedly asked him about his PhD Defense date over three years. The young PhD candidate did not know then that this was nothing but groundwork for his next destination.
Inspired by Professor Pellenq, Arayro found himself sailing on his next journey to land on the MIT sailing pavilion at Charles River to continue his research on nuclear materials applications, and develop a post-doc on the enhancement of nuclear waste cementitious disposals at the UMI.
Jack Arayro now holds a position of Assistant Professor at the American University of the Middle East (AUM) in Kuwait, addressing his teaching skills and enriching his life travel experience in discovering new cultures.

Arayro Jack Publications since start-date at UMI

CNRS researcher and MIT visiting associate professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Room : E25-342 - 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA, 02139
Phone : 617-324-4357
Email : coasne@mit.edu
Link : liphy.ujf-grenoble.fr  

Bio: 

Benoit Coasne Publications since start-date at UMI

Visiting Scientist CNRS Title: Directeur de Recherche

Room : E19-722
Phone : 617-324-4357
Email : andsaul@mit.edu
Link : cinam.univ-mrs.fr  

Bio: 

Andrés Saul Publications since start-date at UMI

Researcher-Engineer CEA Marcoule
MIT Visiting Scholar

Room : E19-722, 400 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Phone : 6173240434
Email : arnaudp@mit.edu
Link :
 

Bio: Arnaud Poulesquen is Researcher-Engineer at CEA, the French Atomic Energy Commission. His research interests concern the relation between rheological and structural properties in various materials as alkali activated materials (mainly geopolymers under various shape: bulk, emulsions and foams), soft gels and bitumen. The characterization of porous materials and fluid transport properties combining calorimetry and neutrons or X-ray scattering experiments is also a part of his reserch. He graduated in 2001 with a PhD in materials science from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris and received his Habilitation degree from the University of Montpellier in 2013. He joined the international joint unit (UMI) Multiscale Science for Energy and Environments as a visiting scientist for working on aluminosilicates materials from modeling and experimental point of view.

Arnaud Poulesquen Publications since start-date at UMI