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April 16, 2026

Award: CNRS Bronze Medal 2026

I am deeply honored to receive the CNRS Bronze Medal 2026. I am very grateful to all the students, collaborators and colleagues with whom I have worked over the years and who contributed to this achievement in any way. A special thanks to the Institut de Recherche sur les Céramiques lab and my closest collaborators at IRCER for their daily support and shared passion. This recognition is a strong motivation to keep digging deeper and pushing the limits of atomic-scale modeling!

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June 4, 2026

JSMCIA2026 organized at IRCER in Limoges

The JSMCIA2026 scientific day of the Mésocentre de Calcul Intensif Aquitain was organized at the Institut de Recherche sur les Céramiques in Limoges, bringing together the regional high-performance computing community around scientific talks, posters, and interdisciplinary exchanges on computational research.

February 2026

PhD defense of Fabien Mortier

Fabien Mortier defended his PhD on advanced ceramics for electrochemical water splitting, a project combining first-principles modeling and machine learning approaches for energy-related ceramic materials.

October 2025

Invited talk at Journées Verre USTV de Roscoff

Invited presentation on machine-learning potentials for amorphous systems, with a focus on modeling strategies for complex disordered materials and their properties.

October 2025

Invited talk at the 2nd CNRS-NTU Workshop

Invited talk in Taipei on ab initio and machine learning modeling of amorphous systems, highlighting recent developments in MLIP-boosted atomistic simulations.

June 2025

Co-organization of the MatV2L summer seminar

Co-organized the 2025 MatV2L summer seminar in Limoges, contributing to scientific exchange across materials science, modeling, and experimental research in the Centre-Val de Loire and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions.

March 2025

AI Day at IRCER

Organized the AI Day at IRCER, a scientific event dedicated to artificial intelligence for materials science and ceramic processes developped at IRCER.

January 2025

PhD defense of Firas Shuaib

Firas Shuaib defended his PhD on first-principles and machine learning modelling of cathode materials for sodium batteries.

October 2024

Keynote invited conference at ISNOG 2024

Keynote invited lecture in Hangzhou on modeling strategies for structure-property relationships in amorphous systems.

May 2024

AMADEUS selected for funding by PEPR DIADEM

Our project AMADEUS was selected for funding through the PEPR DIADEM exploratory call. The project focuses on the automated and machine-learning-driven design and discovery of high-entropy ceramics for energy applications, bringing together atomic-scale modeling, artificial intelligence, synthesis and 3D printing.

April 2024

PhD defense of Ravikant Kumar

Ravikant Kumar defended his PhD on first-principles modelling of metal oxide nanoparticles and their electronic properties.

March 2023

PhD defense of Raghvender Raghvender

Raghvender Raghvender defended his PhD on tellurium-oxide-based glasses and the understanding of structure-property relationships in complex Te-based oxide systems.