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Georgios Tzortzopoulos, awarded the “Pierre Londe” thesis prize by the Comité Français de Mécanique des Roches (CFMR).

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,…

9 members of the GeM ranked in the top 2% of most influential scientists in their field

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 &…

Jean-Yves Hascoët and Tugdual Le Néel took part in the 1st Nantes Université “International Staff Training Week” on Open Education.

Nantes Université organized its very first “International Staff Training Week” on the theme of Open Education from December 4 to 8, 2023. In this context, Jean-Yves Hascoët and Tugdual Le Néel, respectively University Professor and Associate Professor at Centrale Nantes, and members of the GeM within the Rapid Manufacturing UTR,…

Marie Bouyx receives Best Poster Award at the 10th International Conference on Fatigue Design

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…

A look back at the 2023 ALERT Geomaterials Doctoral School

The 2023 ALERT Geomaterials Doctoral School, organised by Ioannis Stefanou (GeM) and Felix Darve (3SR), was dedicated to “Machine Learning in Geomechanics” and took place from September 28th to September 30th 2023. A total of 170 students participated in the school, during which fundamental concepts of machine learning were taught,…

Siddhartha H. Ommi, awarded the 2nd “Ioannis Vardoulakis” thesis prize at the ALERT Geomaterials 2023 workshop.

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,…

Rana Al Nemer wins the Best Poster Award during the ALERT Geomaterials 2023 workshop

Annual Raw Earth National Project (Projet National Terre Crue) Days from October 11 to 13, 2023, in Saint-Nazaire

The Raw Earth National Project (PN Terre Crue) will hold its 3-day annual conference in Saint-Nazaire (Campus Gavy) on October 11, 12, and 13, 2023. More than 80 participants, members of partner organizations of the National Project, are expected to attend this event co-organized by GeM and the steering committee…

ICCGS 2023 – 9th International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures – Nantes – 11-13 September 2023

The Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métier (Icam), High School of Engineering, is organizing the 9th International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures (ICCGS 2023) that will be held in its campus of Nantes, France from 11th to 13th September 2023. About seventy scientists, naval architects and…

ALERT Doctoral School 2023 – Machine Learning (ML) in Geomechanics

ALERT Doctoral School 2023 wille take place from September 28th until 30st 2023 during ALERT Geomaterials Workshop and School in Aussois. The thematic of this edition is “Machine Learning (ML) in Geomechanics” and is coordinated by Ioannis Stefanou (GeM) and Félix Darve (3SR). See the programme The school is addressed…