Current Ph D students
Francisco CEDANO-SERRANO, PhD student since april 2016, Advising: Costantino Creton, Yvette Tran and Dominique Hourdet. Funding by ITN BIOSMART
Adhesion of hydrogels in immersed conditions
Mehdi VAHDATI , PhD student since september 2016, Advisor: Dominique Hourdet, Guylaine Ducouret and Costantino Creton. Funding by ITN BIOSMART
Injectable hydrogles to make viscoelatsic adhesives
Valentine HERVIO , PhD student since october 2016, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by Zodiac Aerosafety Systems
Self-Adhesion and Self- Healing of Polar uncrosslinked elastomers
Ludovic FEIGE , PhD student since october 2016, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by DSM (The Netherlands)
New materials based on multiple network chemistry
Juliette SLOOTMAN , PhD student since october 2016, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH
Mechanochemistry to unveil the fracture mechanisms of soft multiple network elastomers
Louis DEBERTRAND , PhD student since october 2017, Advisor: Tetsuharu Narita et Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH
Fracture of dual network hydrogels : influence of dynamics on bond scission
Giorgia SCETTA , PhD student since october 2017, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by the LRCCP (Ivry sur Seine)
Fatigue crack propagation in thermoplastic polyurethanes
Victoria WALTZ , PhD student since october 2018, Advisors: Costantino Creton and Jutta Rieger. Thesis funded by the ERC CHEMECH
Mechanics of elastomers filled with deformable particles
Yuanyuan WEI , PhD student since october 2018, Advisors: Tetsuharu Narita and Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by a CSC fellowship.
Dynamics, Fracture and Deformation of ultra-soft gels made from Sacran
Zuxiang XU , PhD student since october 2018, Advisors: Yvette Tran, Dominique Hourdet and Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by a CSC fellowship.
Adhésion of biological gels underwater
Jianzhu JU , PhD student since october 2018, Advisors: Tetsuharu narita et Costantino Creton. Thesis funded by the ITN DODYNET
Detection of fracture at the molecular scale of elastomers with double crosslinking dynamics
Post-docs
Helen MINSKY , post-doc since april 2017, Advisor: Matteo Ciccotti et Costantino Creton. Funded by 3M (USA)
Shear failure of pressure-sensitive-adhesives
Gabriel SANOJA , post-doc since april 2017, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH
Synthesis and applications of mechanosensitive molecules to investigate bond scission
Josh YEH , post-doc since september 2017, Advisor: Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH
Analysis of crack propagation and molecular damage at crack tips by optical methods
Xavier MORELLE , post-doc since october 2017, Advisor: Matteo Ciccotti et Costantino Creton. Funded by the ERC grant CHEMECH
Optical techniques to study soft materials deformation and damage
Noushin HASANABADI , post-doc since january 2019, Advisor: Costantino Creton, Jutta Rieger and François Stoffelbach. Funded by BASF
Optical techniques to study damage in soft adhesives in shear