Visiting Scholar

Processing and high temperature properties of syntactic Al foams

M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France

Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

I am originally from France but after graduating from the Intitut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), I completed my PhD degree at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. I studied Aluminum and Magnesium based composites by means of mechanical spectroscopy. During my stay at Northwestern University as a post-doctoral fellow, I am doing research on syntactic aluminum foams, measuring the compressive creep properties and modeling my results using the finite-element method. It is expected that they will display high creep strength, as for composites, while maintaining their low density, as for foams.