Abdallah Aoude wins the 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation Award awarded by EGU (European Geosciences Union)
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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…
Focus on the project ANR PRCI CLIP- (Cohesive LIPschitz) on the modeling of space debris formed by dynamic satellite fragmentation
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
“Mon ERC en 180 secondes” by Ioannis Stefanou
“1500 lauréats ERC en France” The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) organized an event in Paris on April 13 to celebrate a milestone: more than 1,500 contracts signed between national host institutions and the European Research Council (ERC) for frontier research projects. The event was attended by…
Ioannis Stefanou receives an ERC Consolidator Grant for his INJECT project
Preventing human-induced seismicity to fight against climate change is the main thrust of the INJECT project selected in the ERC Consolidator Grant call and led by Professor Ioannis Stefanou at Centrale Nantes and member of the GeM. The €657 million in funding awarded during the European Research Council’s 2022 Consolidator…
Nuit Blanche des Chercheur.es 2023
The GeM will be represented during the edition 2023 of the “Nuit Blanche des Chercheurs à Nantes” which will take place at Stéréolux on February 2, 2023. For this new edition on the theme “Vibrations”, the team of Prof. Ioannis Stefanou will present his work to the public during :…