IMAP
Place Sainte Barbe 2/L5.02.02
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Laurine Choisez
Chargée de recherche FNRS
- Candidate with a Master diploma in the field of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
- Good background in chemical kinetics and physical metallurgy
- Correct English languages skills for scientific discussion, presentation and publication
- Strong motivation, reliable, detail-oriented, ethical, desire to integrate into a scientific group favoring mutual aid
Topic: Combustion and sintering of iron-based fuel for sustainable energy storage
Description: To successfully transition from fossil fuels to a sustainable carbon-free energy supply, a safe and stable energy storage technology is required. Very recently, metallic powders, and particularly iron powder, have been proposed as a high energy density, easily storable and commonly traded fuel. Energy production is obtained through the heat of oxidation, and the combusted products can then be reduced at the solid-state using hydrogen coming from sustainable energy sources, resulting in a complete CO2-free energy cycle. While very promising, the fundamental mechanisms involved in the reduction process of the particles are still not completely understood. While very promising, the fundamental mechanisms involved in the combustion process of the particles are still not completely understood. In particular, the influence of impurities and alloying elements, generally present in low cost iron-based oxides, is completely unknown. This project will focus on the influence of alloying elements on the combustion and sintering processes (activated at the end of the combustion) of iron-based fuel.
Your profile:
Application:
If interested, please send your CV, motivation letter and eventual reference letters by email to Dr. Laurine Choisez (laurine.choisez@uclouvain.be) and Prof. Pascal Jacques (pascal.jacques@uclouvain.be)
An interview (online or presential) will be organized with the selected candidates.
- 2022 - now : Chargée de recherche FNRS, UCLouvain on Alloy design for sustainable and circular high-energy density iron-based powder fuel
- 2021-2022 : Post-doc with Pr. Dierk Raabe, MPIE on Iron powder as sustainable metal fuel
- 2016-2021 : PhD with Pr. Pascal Jacques, UCLouvain on Fracture mechanisms of a new family of beta-metastable Ti alloys
- 2015 : Research internship with Pr. Christopher Schuh, MIT on the TRIP effect in a shape memory ceramic
- Diploma
Year Label Educational Organization 2016 Master: Ingénieur civil en chimie et science des matériaux, à finalité spécialisée Université catholique de Louvain 2021 Docteur en sciences de l'ingénieur et technologies Université catholique de Louvain
Academic lectures:
- RWTH Aachen 2022 : Sustainable Materials and Metallurgical Science and Engineering (lecture on metal combustion).
- UCLouvain EPL 2024 : Sustainable Metallurgy
Exercice sessions:
- Introduction to Material Science (2018-2020; 2023-now)
- Physical chemistry of metals and ceramics (2017-2020; 2022-now)
- Chemistry and chemistry physics 1 (2014-2015)
- Project 3 - Civil Engineering EPL (2016)
Supervision:
- PhD : Support committee of Zakarie Bruyr (2022-now).
- Master theses : Maxime Bardiau (2022-2023); Olivier Dieudonné (2019-2020); Julie Gheysen (2017-2018); Jehan Deséjournet (2016-2017).
- Bachelor theses : Jérôme Wärisch (2023), Kira Hemke (2022).
- Research internships: Théo Mauxion (2023), Yan Lu (2022-2023), Jérôme Wärisch (2021).
- Followed a lecture on group dynamic to improve my supervision skills (2014-2015)
- Courses
Name ID Sustainable metallurgy LMAPR2420
- Metal fuels
- Iron combustion
- Hydrogen-based direct reduction of iron ores
- Beta-metastable TRIP TWIP Ti alloys
- Fractography and damage analysis
- 3D printing of Ti alloys
Coffigniez, Marion ; De Breuck, Pierre-Paul ; Choisez, Laurine ; Marteleur, Matthieu ; van Setten, Michiel ; Petretto, Guido ; Rignanese, Gian-Marco ; Jacques, Pascal. Combination of ab initio descriptors and machine learning approach for the prediction of the plasticity mechanisms in β-metastable Ti alloys. In: Materials & Design, Vol. 239, p. 112801 (2024). doi:10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112801.
Duchaussoy, Amandine ; Marteleur, Matthieu ; Jacques, Pascal ; Choisez, Laurine. Improved mechanical properties of β metastable Ti alloys processed by laser powder bed fusion. In: Materials Science and Engineering: A, Vol. 887, p. 145755 (2023). doi:10.1016/j.msea.2023.145755.
Choisez, Laurine ; Ding, Lipeng ; Marteleur, Matthieu ; Kashiwar, Ankush ; Idrissi, Hosni ; Jacques, Pascal. Shear banding-activated dynamic recrystallization and phase transformation during quasi-static loading of beta-metastable Ti-12 wt.% Mo alloy. In: Acta Materialia, Vol. 235, no. 118088, p. 118088 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118088.
Choisez, Laurine ; Elmahdy, A. ; Verleysen, P. ; Jacques, Pascal. Fracture mechanisms in flat and cylindrical tensile specimens of TRIP-TWIP β-metastable Ti-12Mo alloy. In: Acta Materialia, Vol. 220, p. 117294 (2021). doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117294.
Choisez, Laurine ; Roy, Geoffrey ; Jacques, Pascal. Temperature rise up to melting under quasi-static loading conditions induced by adiabatic shear banding. In: Materials & Design, Vol. 212, p. 110269 (2021). doi:10.1016/j.matdes.2021.110269.
Choisez, Laurine ; Ding, Lipeng ; Marteleur, Matthieu ; Idrissi, Hosni ; Pardoen, Thomas ; Jacques, Pascal. High temperature rise dominated cracking mechanisms in ultra-ductile and tough titanium alloy. In: Nature Communications, Vol. 11, no.1, p. 2110 (2020). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15772-1.