Yves Brechet#

Membership Number:2963
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Elected:2011
Main Country of Residence:FRANCE



Present and Previous Positions

  • Scientific director of Saint Gobain
  • 2012 - 2018 named to the position of High Commissioner for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies
  • 1987 - 2012 Full professor at Grenoble INP/Phelma
  • Adjunct professor of materials science and engineering at McMaster University (Canada)
  • Senior Research Professor at the Institut Universitaire de France
  • Member of the SIMaP (Materials and Processes Science and Engineering) Laboratory with the University of Grenoble

Fields of Scholarship
  • Physical metallurgy
  • Plasticity
  • Thermodynamics
  • Biointerfaces
  • Structural biomimetics
  • Structural materials design
  • Phase transformations
  • Material selection
  • Microstructures
  • Fracture micromechanics
  • Materials science

Honours and Awards
  • 2019 Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université Catholique de Louvain
  • 2019 Kelly lecture "Armours and Brasiers" (Cambridge)
  • 2018 Shanghai Jiaotong University "Master Distinguished Lecture"
  • 2018 Cambridge Granta award for excellence in teaching in materials science
  • 2013 Grande medaille de la Société Française de Métallurgie et Materiaux
  • 2012 - 2013 Professor at Collège de France, annual chair "Innovation and Technology"
  • 2012 Docteur Honoris Causa McMaster University
  • 2012 Wolf-Ramanujan lecture
  • 2010 Member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 Prix Gay-Lussac-Humboldt
  • 2010 Henry Marion Howe Medal
  • 2010 Lee Hsun Research Award, China
  • 2010 Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
  • Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France
  • 2009 Thermec Distinguished award
  • 2009 Max Planck Lecture, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart
  • 2009 CNRS Silver Medal
  • 2007 D.K.McDonald Lecture, Canada
  • 2006 Cohen Lectures, Northwestern University
  • 2006 Sawamura and Guimaraes awards from ISIJ, Japan
  • 2003 Weinberg Lecture, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • 1992 - 1997Junior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France
  • 1996 Körber European Science Award (together with M. Ashby and M. Rappaz)
  • 1995 Materials Science and Technology Prize of FEMS
  • 1993 Gledden Fellowship, University of Western Australia
  • 1990 Pechiney Prize of the French Academy of Sciences


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