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Last Updated: 18 February 2020

On Feb. 17^th, 2020, in Aachen, there has been the Kick-off meeting of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC1394) that aim at building fundations of defect phase diagrams. This project funded for 4 years by the DFG (German Research Agency) gathered the strengths of 19 principal investigaors (PIs) from the RWTH Aachen, the Max-Planck Institut for Iron Research (MPIe, Düsseldorf) and the FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg.

Last Updated: 27 January 2020

From January 1^st, 2020, I am most happy and pround to be part of the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research). As tenured CNRS research scientist (Chargé de recherche) assigned to the LEM3 laboratory (CNRS - Lorraine University - Arts et Métiers ParisTech), I will pursue my work on the atomistic origin of defects and their consequences on mechanical properties, and on building bridges with continuum mechanic approaches.

Last Updated: 24 October 2019

I will give the oral presentation "Slip across complex interfaces: the case of Mg based Laves phases" at the 1^st Colloquium on Theoretical and Experimental Micro-Mechanics that will be held in Metz (France) on November 18th and 19th, 2019. This colloquium is co-organized by Université de Lorraine (Dr. S. Berbenni) and Universität des Saarlandes (Prof. C. Motz).
The program can be downloaded here.

Last Updated: 06 September 2019

Head of the Institute for Physical Metallurgy and Materials Physics (IMM), Prof. Sandra Korte-Kerzel has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research CouncilSandra Korte-Kerzel has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This prestigious funding of 1.5 million euros over 5 years will be dedicated to this study: "Fundamental Building Blocks - Understanding plasticity in complex crystals based on their simplest, intergrown units". As member of the IMM, it was a pleasure to work on some of the preliminary work of this research project.