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…
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…
Presentation of the orientations of the Chair by Olivier Collin (EDYCEM CEO), Daniel Robin (HERIGE), Jean-Baptiste Avrillier (Director of Centrale Nantes), Ahmed Loukili (GeM Professor at Centrale Nantes and Chair holder), Walid Chebbi (Technical & Innovation Director EDYCEM), Emmanuel Rozière (GeM Professor-Centrale Nantes), Sonia Boudache (GeM Research Engineer-Centrale Nantes), Frédéric…
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…
ANR CLIP- (Cohesive LIPschitz) This research project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), is part of an International Collaborative Research Project (PRCI) between the team of Professor Jean-François Molinari from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the team of Professor Nicolas Moës from GeM at Centrale…
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.…
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,…
