President 2020-2021

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Institut P’
Bd M&P Curie
86960 Futuroscope
France

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Eric Le Bourhis is professor at Poitiers University (Futuroscope, France) in the department of materials' physics. He initially taught at a secondary school in Lima (Peru) between 1989 and 1991. Upon returning to France, he gained his PhD at Paris VII University in 1994. Then he joined Evry University for one year as an assistant professor and subsequently the Saint Gobain R&D team at Aubervilliers for 4 years as an engineer. During this industrial period, he applied contact mechanics to glass surfaces and coatings developed for glazing, and was also involved in industrial production tasks. He joined Poitiers University in 1998, where he has pursued an activity to promote sol-gel hybrid coatings in close collaboration with glass industrial manufacturers, while his other research activities focus on the mechanical properties of thin-films and nanostructures. He has published 150 papers in international journals, 3 patents and 1 book (Glass Mechanics and Technology, 2^nd Ed., Wiley VCH, 2014).

He has been involved in the organisation of different small-scale mechanics workshops (JMC9 2004, SF2M 2004, Matériaux 2010 & 2014), 2 MRS (Boston 2007 & 2009) and 1 EUROMAT (Montpellier 2011) symposia. He is President of SF2M, the French Metals and Materials Society..