Publications

CV

Education

• 2022 : HDR (Professorial Thesis), INSA Lyon, France
• 2010 : PhD of Civil Engineering, INSA Lyon, University of Lyon, France
• 2007-2010 : PhD student at the Laboratory of Civil and Environmental Engineering (LGCIE) of INSA Lyon. Intern teacher at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
• 2006-2007 : Research Master Degree "MEGA de Lyon", Civil and Geotechnical Engineering
• 2006 : Accepted (ranked first) at the Civil Engineering "Agregation" (French national teaching recruitement)
• 2005-2006 : Preparation of the Civil Engineering Agregation at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) of Cachan (France)
• 2005 : Engineering Master Degree of INSA Lyon, Department of Civil Engineering and Urban Planning
• 1999-2005 : Engineering studies at INSA Lyon

Professional experience

• Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Paris, Septembre 2019-August 2020.
  Invited researcher at the Laboratoire de Géologie


• National Institute for Applied Sciences, Lyon, Since September 2013.
  Associate Professor, laboratory of Contacts and Structures Mechanics (LaMCoS) and Mechanical Engineering Department (GM)


• University of Grenoble, Laboratory for Soils, Solids, Structures and Risks (3SR Lab), Grenoble, France, September 2012-August 2013.
  Lecturer, in 3SRLab and Polytech Grenoble


• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, October 2011-September 2012.
  Research Associate in Prof. Jidong ZHAO's research team, on the topic "Micromechanical analysis of a sheared sand"


• Laboratory for Soils, Solids, Structures and Risks (3SR Lab), Grenoble, France, October 2010-October 2011.
  Postdoctoral researcher on the topic "Discrete modelling of rock avalanches", related to the European project MASSA, under supervision of Prof. Pascal VILLARD


• National University of Singapore, Singapore, March-September 2009.
  Research stay in Prof. Kok-Kwang PHOON's research team, on the topic "Analysis of the stability of a pressurized tunnel face in a spatially varying soil"


• Laboratory of Civil and Environmental Engineering (LGCIE), Lyon, France, September 2007-August 2010.
  PhD thesis on the topic "Deterministic and probabilistic analysis of the behavior of tunnels", under supervision of Prof. Daniel DIAS and Prof. Abdul-Hamid SOUBRA


• Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Lyon, France, September 2007-August 2010.
  "Monitorat" (teaching internship) of Civil Engineering


• LGCIE, Lyon, France, January-July 2007.
  Master thesis, on the topic "Numerical analysis of the settlements induced by a tunnel excavation : application to a real case in an urban context", linked with the Toulon (France) tunnel project

Teaching

• EPFL, Visp, Switzerland, August 2021 and July 2023
  Summer School, Lectures in the 2021 and 2023 Summer Schools “Tribology and Surface Interactions’ organized by EPFL: “Rock tribology – Understanding earthquakes” and “Geological sliding in the field”


• INSA Lyon, Lyon, Since Septembre 2016
  Associate Professor in the GMD Department. Teachings of Mathematics, Numerical analysis by Finite Elements, Solid Mechanics, and Differential operators. In charge of the engineering interships from 2014 to 2019.


• Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, Since December 2014
  Master "Mechanics and Materials", course of discrete numerical modelling in tribology.


• INSA Lyon, Lyon, September 2013-August 2016
  Associate Professor in the GMD Department. Teachings of Solids Dynamics, Numerical Mathematics, Numerical Analysis by Finite Elements, and Granular Materials. In charge of the fifth year engneering internships.


• University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, September 2012-August 2013
  Lecturer at Polytech Grenoble. Responsible for the continuum mechanics class (courses and tutorials), teachings in fluid mechanics (Courses) and soil mechanics (lab classes).


• University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France, September 2007-June 2010
  Teacher at the Lyon Technological Institute in Civil Engineering. Courses of stability, structural mechanics, timber construction, fluid mechanics, and concrete materials: Tutorials, Lab classes, Projects.


• "Agrégé" in Civil Engineering, Session 2006
  National teaching ranking and recruitment, Option Structures and Buildings, Ranked first

Scientific production

• PhD thesis
• 9 co-supervised PhD thesis
• 13 supervised or co-supervised Master thesis
• 4 supervised or co-supervised Postdocs
• 45 articles in international journals
• 34 workshops or invited seminar
• 88 contributions in international conferences
• 18 contributions in national conferences

Editorial activities

• Granular Matter (Springer) : Associate editor, since 2020


• Computers and Geotechnics (Elsevier): Member of the editorial board, since 2015


• Tribology International (Elsevier): Guest Editor, Special Issue “Machine Learning in Tribology”, 2022

Organization of conferences

• Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS) 2024: Member of the Organization Committee


• World Tribology Congress 2022 : Member of the organization committee, in charge of the MT180 challenge, Lyon, July 2022


• Leeds-Lyon Symposium for Tribology 2015, 2017, 2019, 2024: Co-organisor, in charge of the poster session, Ecully, September 2015, 2017, 2019, 2024


• Journée de la Matière Condensée 2022: Session co-organizer "Granular matter in its environment"


• EMI International Conference, Lyon July 2019: Organizer and chair of the ”Induced Seismicity” symposium


• LMGC90 : Co-organisor of the Users Colloquium, Villeurbanne, March 2015

Local Responsibilities

• LaMCoS : Member of the Lab Counsil, since 2021


• LaMCoS : Membre of the Scientific Council, since 2021


• LaMCoS : In charge of the lab seminars, 2015-2018, and since 2021


• EUR Manutech SLEIGHT: Member of the Scientific Counsil, co-leader of Scientific Axis 2 (since 2021)


• LaBex MANUTECH SISE: Member of the pedagogical committee, since 2019


• LaBex MANUTECH SISE: Member of the scientific committee of theme 3, "Perception engineering and white light processing", 2014-2019


• INSA Lyon, Mechanical Engineering Department: In charge of the industrial internships of the department (2014-2019)


• INSA Lyon, Mechanical Engineering Department: Member of the pedagogical programs committee (2022-2023)

Implication in research projects

• European project MASSA ("Medium And Small Size rockfall hazard Assessment"), 2010-2011.


• French national project CARAB ("Advanced and Robust Conception for Bolted Joints"), 2014-2017.


• INSA project ("Numerical modelling of lubrication by deformable lipid vesicles"), 2015-2018 (principal investigator).


• LabEx Manutech SISE project MORPHORHEO ("Links between Morphology and Rheology of tribological third-bodies"), 2016-2019 (principal investigator).


• ANR project XFEW ("Development of an extended friction energy – third body wear approach to predict the fretting wear rate of metal interfaces"), 2017-2020.


• EUR Manutech SLEIGHT project QUANTRI ("Identification quantitative de caractéristiques physiques des interfaces solides en lien avec les propriétés tribologiques"), 2019-2022.


• LabEx Manutech SISE project REFILL ("Reactive Frictional Fluidics"), 2020-2023.


• LabEx Manutech SISE project CISASURF ("Développement d’essais de microCISAillement in-situ sous MEB pour la caractérisation de SURFaces micrométriques"), 2021-2023.


• ANR project DRAMA (“Do Rock Faults Melt or Abrade during earthquakes?”), 2021-2024 (principal investigator).


• LaMCoS-funded project COMUN (“COntacts MUlti-échelles Numériques »), 2023-2024 (principal investigator).

Industrial Partnerships

• Umicore, Safran Landing Systems, Thales-Trixell, Framatome, Safran Aircraft Engines, Michelin.

Softwares

• MELODY 2D, Multibody ELement-free Open code for DYnamic simulation


• DEMLab, Discrete Element Modelling with Matlab


• Packing3D, Generation and packing of a 3D granular sample


• Packing2D, Generation and packing of a 2D granular sample


• TFSS, Deterministic and probabilistic design of a pressurized tunnel face


• Tunnel in Rock, Design of a pressurized tunnel face in rock (executable)

Reviewing

• Reviewer for research grant attributions AGIR 2015, AGIR 2016, HESSO 2018, SLEIGHT 2022-2023.


• Member of 2 PhD thesis scientific committees, of 5 PhD thesis jurys in France, and of 4 PhD jurys in foreign countries.


• Member of 3 Committees of selection for assistant professors recruitment.


• About 10-15 reviews of scientific papers each year in various domains:

Granular Physics
• Granular Matter (Springer) – Frequent reviewer
• New Journal of Physics (IOP Science)
• Powder Technology (Elsevier)
• Transport in Porous Media (Springer)

Tribology
• Tribology International (Elsevier) – Frequent reviewer
• Journal of Tribology (ASME)
• Tribology Transactions (Taylor and Francis)
• Engineering Tribology (Elsevier)
• Tribology Letters (Springer)
• Wear (Elsevier)
• Lubrication Science (Wiley)
• Journal of Engineering Tribology (Sage)

Geophysics
• Journal of Geophysical Reasearch (AGU)
• Geology (GeoScienceWorld)
• Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (Elsevier)
• Engineering Geology (Elsevier)
• Georisk (Taylor and Francis)
• Environmental Earth Sciences (Springer)
• Geosciences (MDPI)
• Pure and Applied Geophysics (Springer)
• Tectonoohysics (Elsevier)
• Geosciences Journal (Springer)

Computational Mechanics
• Computers and Geotechnics (Elsevier) – Frequent reviewer
• International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (Wiley)
• Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Elsevier)
• Computational Mechanics (Springer)
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Wiley)
• Journal of Computational Physics (Elsevier)

Geomechanics and Civil Engineering
• Geotechnique (ICE)
• Tunneling and Underground Space Technology (Elsevier)
• Acta Geotechnica (Springer)
• Canadian Geotechnical Journal (Canadian Science Publishing)
• Geotechnique Letters (ICE)
• Advances in Building Technologies and Construction Materials (Hindawi)
• Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering (ASCE)
• Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems (Taylor and Francis)
• Soils And Foundations (Elsevier)
• Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (ASCE)
• European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering (Taylor and Francis)
• Automation in Construction (Elsevier)

Mechanical Engineering
• Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics (Elsevier)
• Proceedings A (Royal Society Publishing)
• Structural Engineering and Mechanics (Techno Press)
• Mechanics and Industry (EDP Science)