Marinelle El Khoury prepared her GeM thesis at Ecole Centrale de Nantes under the supervision of Professors Frédéric Grondin and Emmanuel Rozière, in cotutelle with the Lebanese University under the supervision of Professor Fadi Hage Chehade and Dr Rachid Cortas. The Centrale Innovation 2023 thesis prize was awarded to her…
Georgios Tzortzopoulos prepared his thesis ‘Controlling earthQuakes (CoQuake) in the laboratory using pertinent fault stimulating techniques’ at GeM – Ecole Centrale de Nantes under the supervision of Ioannis Stefanou and as part of the ERC CoQuake project (www.coquake.eu). Based on mathematical developments, numerical analyses and experimental tests, Georgios’ thesis provides,…
In October 2023, Stanford University and Elsevier updated their ranking of the World’s Top 2% Scientists. The list is based on the international transdisciplinary Scopus databases, and covers some 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. 9 GeM researchers are included in this list in the following fields: •Mechanical Engineering &…
The ‘Best Poster Award’ went to Marie Bouyx at the 10th International Conference on Fatigue Design organized by CETIM on November 29 and 30, 2023 in Senlis for her poster Numerical modeling of fatigue testing for small crack propagation from artificial defect. Marie, PhD student at GeM within the UTR…
The 2nd “Ioannis Vardoulakis” thesis prize was attributed to Siddhartha H. Ommi at the annual ALERT Geomaterials workshop held in Aussois from September 25 to 27, 2023. Siddhartha completed his thesis entitled ‘Study of hydro-mechanical instabilities in geomaterials’, defended on April 14, 2022, at GeM – École Centrale de Nantes,…
Emmanuel Rozière was awarded the AFGC 2022 Prize on May 3, 2023 by Emmanuel Ferrier, President of the Scientific Committee of the association. The AFGC (Association Française de Génie Civil) prize is destined to reward one or more engineers or researchers for outstanding personal work in the scientific and technical…
The project AiBy4 AiBy4 is one of the 22 projects selected by the ANR for its call for “doctoral contracts in AI” (2020-2025) aiming to animate AI research in Nantes, via the constitution of a cohort of doctoral students in the field and to create new synergies between Nantes’ partners…
The context and objectives of the thesis can be viewed on the following video: The Palladio foundation‘s scholarship program aims to accompany and support the younger generation (students, doctoral students, post-doctoral students, both French and foreign), by giving them the means to carry out their higher education or research projects…
