Team
Postdocs, PhD students and interns I have supervised or co-supervised since 2015.
- 4postdocs
- 10PhD students (6 defended)
- 4visiting researchers
- 25master and undergraduate projects
Postdocs
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Fatima Masara Current 2026–
Structure and elastic properties of (alumino)silicates of magnesium hydrates (M-(A)-S-H)
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Elvys Dias Reis 2025–2026
Mechanisms of expansion in alkali-silica reaction: a bottom-up approach
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Justin Kinda 2023–2024
Experimental evaluation of thermal-sorption coupled deformations in cement-based materials
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Gang Huang 2023–2024
Engineering model for the temperature- and RH-dependence of thermal expansion and heat capacity of concrete
PhD students
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Abderrahmane Lahmar Current 2025–
Mesoscopic simulations and simplified models for the mechanical behaviour of irradiated concrete
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Hazem Ferchichi Current 2024–
Impact of irradiation in cement-based materials: contribution of atomistic methods
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Shuai Cheng Current 2023–
Mesoscale study of the delayed behaviour of concrete at 150 °C
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Syrine Razki Current 2023–
Multiscale characterization of degradation by accelerated aging of concrete foundations
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Bilal Mahmoud Hawchar Defended 2022–2025
Crystallization pressure by molecular simulation and microfluidics experiments
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Sofiane Ait-Hamadouche Defended 2021–2024
Broad-band dielectric approach for the non-destructive evaluation of hydration of cement-based materials
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Fatima Masara Defended 2021–2024
Multiscale modelling of the thermo-hygro-mechanical response of concrete informed by the molecular scale
Now Postdoc, CEA Paris-Saclay
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Takwa Sayari Defended 2019–2023
Kinetics of drying in concrete: achieving water content equilibrium in fire behaviour tests
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Mihaja Razafimbelo Defended 2019–2022
Optimization of the reinforcement in massive zones of reinforced concrete under complex loadings
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Pascale Saba Defended 2018–2022
Mechanics of cement-based composites reinforced by glass-fibre grids
Work-study apprentices
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Nathan Martins Current Dec 2025–
Low-carbon cement systems: early-age mechanical properties and rheology
Visiting researchers
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Walter Batista Bonfim 2026
Impedance of C-S-H and multiscale models of electrical properties for low-carbon cement systems
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Naohiko Saeki 2024–2025
Carbonation of C-S-H
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Waleska Barbosa 2020
Substitutions and symmetry transitions in tricalcium silicates
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Saied Babaei 2020
Micromechanics of drying and thermal shrinkage in cement-based materials
Master projects
- 2023 Syrine Razki. Predicting expansion by external sulphate attack using thermodynamic modelling
- 2022 Bilal Mahmoud Hawchar. Origins of crystallization pressure by molecular simulations
- 2021 Loric Renault. Optimizing the packing density of aggregates in concrete using simulations and machine learning
- 2021 Dikra Afkir. Topology optimization of the reinforcement in cement-based materials
- 2021 Mohamad Khoder. Concrete with seashell aggregates: characterization and micromechanical modelling
- 2021 Sofiane Ait Hamadouche. Nanomechanics of C-S-H and ASR gels by coarse-grained simulations
- 2020 Fatima Masara. Thermal pressurization and effective interactions in C-S-H under sorption
- 2020 Estefanía Nuñez Del Prado. Sorption hysteresis and RH-dependent elastic constants of C-S-H
- 2020 Nejd Hammami. Influence of seashell aggregate shape on concrete properties
- 2019 Percy Guerra. Dimensional stability of ettringite: RH and temperature dependencies
- 2015 Reine Fares. Multiscale thermo-viscoelastic properties of concrete at early age
Undergraduate projects
- 2022 Marwane Triffa. Portlandite under irradiation: mechanisms of H₂ diffusion
- 2021 Bilal Mahmoud Hawchar. C-A-S-H structure and properties
- 2020 Marc Vacher. Cement-based composites with seashell fillers
- 2020 Sofiane Ait-Hamadouche. Machine learning for the mix design of cement pastes with a target elastic response
- 2020 Wassi Hussain. Hydration and phases of pastes with seashell
- 2019 Ornella M. Chemgne Tamouya. Molecular modelling of alkali-silica reaction products
- 2019 Estefanía Nuñez Del Prado. Molecular modelling of the elastic constants of C-S-H
- 2019 Sirine Al-Dandachli. Energy storage in ettringite from molecular simulations
- 2019 Thibault Ronzaud. Shells as concrete aggregates: experimental and micromechanics study
- 2019 Rodrigo Yanez. Effects of drying in concrete structure layouts from topology optimization
- 2018 Percy Guerra. Ettringite physical properties from in silico experiments
- 2018 Samy Ben-Hamoudi. Hydrodynamics in C-S-H nanopores
- 2018 Martin Pegeot. Topology optimization of reinforcement in rendering mortars
- 2018 Quentin Laurent. Evolution of the capillary porosity of cement pastes at early age