Comité de direction

Management Committee

The iMAT Management Committee meets several times a month to support and assist management in the scientific life of the institute: analysis and selection of resource requests, overseeing the development of cross-disciplinary themes and monitoring the smooth running of the program.

Management Committee

Nouveau mandat 2025 - 2029

À l'occasion de la reconduction de l'institut pour un mandat de 5 ans, Xavier Carrier prend la direction en remplacement d'Abhay Shikla et le Comité de Direction se renouvelle en accueillant de nouveaux membres : 

- Alexis Prevost (Laboratoire Jean Perrin)
- Angela Vincenti (Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert)
- Arnaud Huguet (Milieux environnementaux, transferts et interactions dans les hydrosystèmes et les sols)
- Marie-Angélique Languille (Centre de recherche pour la conservation)
- Amélie Juhin (Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie)

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Zoheir Aboura

Laboratoire Roberval de l'Université Technologique de Compiègne.

Professor Zoheir Aboura is a member of the Roberval Mechanics Laboratory at Compiègne University of Technology.

His research focuses on the mechanics and failure mechanisms of composite materials. He has been head of the Materials and Surfaces team since 2016. He has also been Vice President of the Scientific Advisory Board of Compiègne University of Technology since December 2017.

Xavier Carrier - Directeur

Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface (LRS), SU

Xavier Carrier is a professor at Sorbonne University's Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface (LRS).
His work focuses on the synthesis of inorganic materials for heterogeneous catalysis.He obtained his PhD from the Université Pierre & Marie Curie and spent a year at Stanford University (California) as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences.His research interests include the use of complementary spectroscopic techniques for a molecular-scale understanding of the physico-chemical phenomena involved in the preparation of supported catalysts.

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Sophie Cassaignon

Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris (LCMCP)

Sophie Cassaignon is a professor at Sorbonne University's Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris (LCMCP).

Her field of research is condensed matter chemistry and materials science. She graduated from the Université Pierre Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université) and obtained her PhD from the same institution. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Valparaiso (Chile) and at ChimieParistech. Her research interests lie in the synthesis of nanomaterials by soft chemistry, and their use in devices for energy conversion (photovoltaics) or storage (batteries) and pollution control (photocatalysis).

Benjamin Rotenberg

Physicochimie des Électrolytes et Nanosystèmes interfaciaux (PHENIX)
 

A former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Benjamin Rotenberg completed his PhD at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie under the supervision of Pierre Turq from 2004 to 2007. After a post-doctorate at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (Amsterdam) with Daan Frenkel, he joined the CNRS in 2008 as a research fellow in the PECSA laboratory, now known as the Physicochemistry of Electrolytes and Interfacial Nanosystems (PHENIX). He has since been a visiting professor/researcher in Barcelona, Berkeley and Berlin, and promoted to CNRS Research Director in 2018. He has received numerous awards, including the Prix Michel Gouilloud Schlumberger from the Académie des Sciences in 2013, the Médaille de Bronze from the CNRS in 2015, and the Bessel Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2017.

As a member of the MEM team in the PHENIX laboratory, his main area of interest is multi-scale modeling of charged fluids, particularly at interfaces.

Franck Vidal

Franck Vidal

Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP)

Franck Vidal is a professor at the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP) at Sorbonne University.

His field of research is condensed matter physics and materials science. He obtained his PhD at LURE, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Condensed Matter Physics in Stuttgart. His current research focuses on magnetic materials. His work includes the development of new magnetic nanocomposites and the study of magnetic and structural dynamics in hybrid systems, involving the use of synchrotron and X-FEL facilities.

Former members

Mathieu Salanne

PHysicochimie des Electrolytes et Nanosystèmes InterfaciauX (PHENIX)

Mathieu Salanne is a professor at Sorbonne University's PHysicochemistry of Electrolytes and Interfacial Nanosystems (PHENIX) laboratory.

His research focuses on the modeling of ionic materials for energy production and storage. He graduated in chemical engineering from Chimie ParisTech and obtained his PhD in 2006 from Sorbonne University. He is developing methods for realistic molecular simulation of solid and liquid electrolytes in situations relevant to electrochemistry, as part of a CER consolidation grant (AMPERE project). He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Chemical Physics and of the scientific steering committee of PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, funded by the EU).

Maguy Jaber

Molecular and Structural Archaeology Laboratory (LAMS)

Maguy Jaber is a professor at Sorbonne University's Laboratoire d'Archéologie Moléculaire et Structurale (LAMS).

Her field of research covers the preparation of different types of clay minerals and their hybrid derivatives. She obtained her pHD at the Université de Haute Alsace. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Collège de France and associate professor in Alsace, working on the molecular-level characterization of interactions between clay minerals and organic and inorganic pollutants. At Sorbonne University, she worked in the field of prebiotic chemistry involving amino acids and lamellar materials. She developed the concept of archaeomimetics for the synthesis of new pigments based on historical recipes. Her current research covers the field of cultural heritage materials, from fossils to paintings, focusing on the interactions between biomolecules and inorganic matrices and their accelerated ageing.

Chrystèle Sanloup

Institute of Mineralogy, Physics of Materials and Cosmochemistry (IMPMC)

Chrystèle Sanloup is a professor at Sorbonne University's Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC).

She is a mineral physicist, and her main research interests are the chemical and physical properties of planetary materials at depth, but she regularly works on condensed matter physics issues. She obtained her PhD at ENS Lyon, and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Geophysics Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Her research focuses on high-pressure, high-temperature experimentation combined with in situ X-ray synchrotron techniques, Raman spectroscopy and post-mortem chemical analyses. Planetary implications range from core composition to atmosphere formation.

Abhay Shukla

Institute of Mineralogy, Physics of Materials and Cosmochemistry (IMPMC)

Abhay Shukla is Director of iMAT and Professor at Sorbonne University's Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC).

His field of research is condensed matter physics and materials science. He graduated from EPFL, Lausanne, and obtained his PhD from the University of Geneva. He was a postdoctoral researcher and scientist for several years at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, where he developed and used inelastic X-ray scattering methods for measurements of electron pulse distributions, electronic excitations and phonons in solids. At the Sorbonne, he continued synchrotron spectroscopy work at SOLEIL and several other synchrotrons, particularly under extreme conditions. His current research focuses on two-dimensional materials. His work focuses on the electronic, optical and vibrational properties of these materials and devices, and on the applications linked to these properties.

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