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[Accreditation to supervize research] Vito Rubino ‘Dynamic shear rupture behavior and evolution of friction’

Find out more about Vito’s career and work >> > Composition of the jury Rafael ESTEVEZ, Professeur, Université de Grenoble AlpesJean-François MOLINARI, Professeur, École Polytechnique de LausanneGioacchino VIGGIANI, Professeur, Université de Grenoble AlpesHarsha BHAT, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, École Normale SupérieureNicolas CHEVAUGEON, Professeur, Nantes UniversitéMichel CORET, Professeur, École Centrale de…

Thematic workshop on Dynamic Fragmentation for solids – November 19 and 20, 2025 at Centrale Nantes

On November 19 and 20, 2025, GeM is organizing a thematic workshop at Centrale Nantes on dynamic fragmentation for solids. This event, dedicated to the dynamic case of fragmentation and rapid crack propagation, will bring together French-speaking researchers and specialists in the field. The program includes a dozen presentations, poster…

PhD thesis offer – Generic analytical modeling of ship collisions against floating offshore wind turbines involving deformable vessels

Internship offer – Master 2 – Variance-based inversion scheme for imaging polycrystalline material features (Project ANR SEISMOMETER)

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…

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…