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Abdelhamid HAFIDI, 1st price in the competition ‘Je vends mon projet en 180s’ (I sell my project in 180s) during the Semaine du Béton 2025

This success is also the result of international collaboration between the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and Centrale Nantes. This partnership has enabled the enrichment of methodological approaches and the integration of complementary perspectives, illustrating the importance of collaborative research on an international scale. This thesis is supervised at Centrale Nantes…

Valentine Rey, laureate of the 2024 “Étoiles Montantes” program of the Pays de la Loire Region

Project summary (french):De nos jours, le comportement mécanique de très nombreuses structures (industrielles, bio-médicales, …) est simulé à l’aide d’outils numériques. Il s’agit de construire une représentation numérique de la structure ou de l’assemblage considéré dans un logiciel de conception assistée par ordinateur. Ces logiciels permettent ensuite la simulation…

Abdallah Aoude wins the 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation Award awarded by EGU (European Geosciences Union)

Saba Robinary won the 2nd prize for Best poster at PhotoMechanics-iDICs conference 2024

Saba Robinary was awarded the 2nd prize for best poster at the PhotoMechanics – iDICs international conference, held in Clermont-Ferrant from 29 to 31 October 2024. The title of the winning poster is “Characterization of the effect of roughness on dynamic shear ruptures along frictional interfaces”. Saba is currently preparing…

Christophe Binetruy named President of European Society for Composite Materials (ESCM)

On the occasion of its General Assembly, which took place on July 3, 2024 during the ECCM21 conference, Christophe Binetruy was named President of ESCM (European Society for Composites Materials) for the next two years. Full professor at GeM in Centrale Nantes, Christophe Binetruy had been ESCM vice-president and member…

Jessy Simon received the 2nd ESCM Best Thesis 2022 Award at ECCM21

At the ECCM21 (21st European Conference on Composite Materials for Academia and Industry) held in Nantes from July 2 to 5, 2024, Jessy Simon was awarded the 2nd ESCM prize for the best thesis defended in 2022. Jessy prepared his thesis at GeM as part of the IRT Jules Verne…

Imane Bekrine receives the Best Student Presentation Award at the ACI/RILEM ICCM2024 international conference

Imane Bekrine received the Best Student Presentation Award at the 12th ACI/RILEM International Conference held in Toulouse from 23 to 26 June 2024 Among the 60 presentations by PhD students over the three days of the conference, Imane stood out for her presentation entitled “Multiscale Mechanical Investigation of Ternary Binders…

Three GeM PhD students awarded research prizes at RUGC (Civil Engineering University Conference) 2024

GeM was honored at the latest Rencontres Universitaires du Génie Civil (RUGC) held in Le Havre from May 28 to 31, 2024, where 3 doctoral students received awards for their work. Imane Bekrine was the winner of the René Houpert Young Researchers competition, which brought together 28 candidates at the…

Mael Péron, winner of the Daniel Valentin 2023 Prize awarded by AMAC (Association pour les MAtériaux Composites)

The Daniel Valentin 2023 Prize has been awarded to Mael Péron, GeM Associate Professor at IUT Saint-Nazaire, by the Association pour les MAtériaux Composites. The prize is awarded each year to a researcher under 35 years old, in recognition of a structured body of work carried out over a limited…

Antoine Queguineur, winner of the Grade2XL 2023 Additive Manufacturing Challenge

As part of the WAAM Additive Manufacturing Grade2XL project, Antoine Queguineur was awarded the 2023 Jury Prize for a novel chimney concept: the KOTA chimney, which combines an original design with enhanced energy efficiency capabilities. Antoine is currently preparing his thesis at Tampere University (Finland) under the supervision of Prof.…