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
