IMAP
Place Sainte Barbe 2/L5.02.02
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Professeur ordinaire
IMAP
Place Sainte Barbe 2/L5.02.02
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Doctor in applied sciences, UCL, March 1998
Master in philosophy, UCL, September 1996
Physical engineering (Ingénieur civil physicien), UCL, June 1994
Academic career
2015 - 18 President of the Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering, UCL
2014 - 15 Vice Dean of Louvain School of Engineering / Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, UCL
since 2012 Ordinary Professor – Professeur ordinaire UCL
since 2011 Member of UCL Research Center on Architectured and Composite Materials (ARCOMAT)
2009 - 12 Technical vice president of the Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering
2007 - 12 Full professor UCL, Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering
2004 - 10 Head of the Division of Materials and Process Engineering (IMAP)
2003 - 07 Associate Professor UCL (Chargé de cours), Department of Materials Science and Processes
since 2001 Member of UCL Research Center on Microscopic and Nanoscopic Devices and Materials (CERMIN)
2000 - 02 Assistant Professor UCL (Chargé de cours temporaire à temps plein)
1998 - 2000 Post-Doctorate fellow at Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
1994 - 98 Ph. D. Student UCL, Department of Materials Science and Processes
Awards, fellowships and grants
Francqui Chair 2015 from Université de Liège
Euromech Fellow 2015 from European Mechanics Society
Grand Prix Alcan 2011 from the French Academy of Sciences
FEMS lecturer, Federation of European Materials Societies, 2002 - 03
Bourse post-doctorale de recherche scientifique UCL, 1999 - 2001
Chargé de Recherches au FNRS, Fonds National de
Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, 1998-2000
Fellow of BAEF, Belgian American Educational Foundation Inc., 1998 - 99
Research fellow FNRS, Belgium, 1996 – 1998; Research fellow UCL, 1994 - 96
Main responsabilities in science, teaching and service
Research and teaching in macro-, micro- and nano-mechanics of materials
Supervisor or co-supervisor of 40 Ph. D. (28 accomplished) and 16 post docs since 2000
Teaching ~6 courses in the field of the mechanics of materials, microsystems, and materials science
Vice president of UCL faculty member representation CORA (2010-13)
Member of the scientific council of UCL (2012-15) and of the academic council of UCL (2010-13 and 2015-18)
President of scientific council of SCK•CEN (centre of nuclear research) Belgium (2014-2019) (member 2010-13)
Chairman of the Board of the research centre CERTECH, Belgium (2013-16)
Scientific expert or member of selection committees for ERC (EU) in which his a member of a starting grant panel since 5 years, CNRS, FNRAE, EDF, ONERA (France), NWO & FOM (The Netherlands), NSERC (Canada), SNF (Switzerland)
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Belgian nuclear safety agency FANC regarding the issue of cracks inside the Doel 3 and Tihange 2 nuclear reactors (2012-2015)
Co-responsible for initiating in 2006 the pole of competitiveness MECATECH for the Wallonia Region
Promotor or co-promotor of ~50 research projects since 2000. Among these projects, he was coordinator of a large Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP) Belgian research network for the phase 2012-2017.
Belgian representative for the Mirror group of the ESTEP platform, European Commission (2010-15)
Vice director of European network MECANO (2012 – 15)
Scientific communication
Publications
1 chapter in an encyclopedia
2 chapters in a multi-authors book
>175 papers in international journals with peer review
>130 papers in proceedings of international conferences with peer review
>190 additional presentations in international conferences with peer review (only abstracts)
h-factor Scopus = 41
h-factor Google = 47
Selection of publications
T. Pardoen, J.W. Hutchinson. An extended model for void growth and coalescence. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 48/12 (2000) 2467-2512 (>600 citations Google)
W.T.S. Huck, N. Bowden, P. Onck, T. Pardoen, J.W. Hutchinson, G.M Whitesides. Ordering of spontaneously formed buckles on planar surfaces, Langmuir 16-7 (2000) 3497-3501 (>300 citations G)
M.S. Colla, B. Amin-Ahmadi, H. Idrissi, L. Malet, S. Godet, J.P. Raskin, D. Schryvers, T. Pardoen. Dislocation mediated relaxation in nanograined columnar palladium films revealed by on-chip time-resolved HRTEM testing, Nature Communication 6:5922 (2015) (I.F. 10.7)
J.M. Thomassin, C. Jérôme, T. Pardoen, C. Bailly, I. Huynen, C. Detrembleur, Polymer/Carbon based composites as Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) shielding materials, Materials Science & Engineering R: Reports 74 (2013) 211-232 (> 200 citations G)
A. Simar, Y. Bréchet, B. de Meester, A. Denquin, C. Gallais and T. Pardoen. Integrated modelling of friction stir welding of 6XXX series aluminium alloys, Progress in Materials Science 57 (2012) 95-183 (I.F. 18.2 >100 citations G)
P.-O. Mouthuy, M. Coulombier, T. Pardoen, J.-P. Raskin, A.M. Jonas, Overcurvature describes the buckling and folding of rings from curved origami to foldable tents, Nature Communication 3:1290 (2012) (I.F. 10.7)
36 invited lectures since 1999 among which 17 keynotes and 4 plenaries (2 to come in 2018).
3 patents
Others
Member of the editorial advisory board of Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids and International Journal of Damage Mechanics, and of the scientific board of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, and Journal of Surfaces and Interfaces in Materials
Co-organizer of Euromech Colloquium 463 Size dependent mechanics of materials, Groningen, june 2005; of ductile fracture workshop at CFRAC2011, june 2011 Barcelona, workshop at ICMM2, august 2011 Paris; Mini-colloquium Nanostructures: deformation and properties in JMC13 (Journées de la Matière Condensée), Montpellier 2012; MRS fall meeting 2013 Acta Materialia Gold medal symposium, Boston; july 2015, Madrid, 9th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC9) organization of a workshop on “in situ mechanical characterization”; september 2016, Brussels, Euromech Mechanics of Materials Conference 2016 organization of a workshop on ductile fracture; September 2017, Leuven, 27th International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials; july 2018, Bologne, 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC9) organization of a workshop on “in situ mechanical characterization”.
Member of the “Euromech Mechanics of Materials Conference Committee” (2004-2014)
Member of > 10 advisory scientific committees of international conferences
Languages
French mother tongue - English fluent - Dutch intermediate
Civil status
Born on March 26 1971, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, U.S.
Belgian and U.S. citizen (dual national)
Married to Catherine Adant, February 23 1971, Consultant
Three children: Margaux, March 16 1997 - Juliette, October 12 1999 - Tanguy, May 7 2002
Clos de
1435 Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium
Phone (+32) 10 475134
Fax (+32) 10 45884
Année | Label | Institution |
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1991 | Candidat ingénieur civil | Université catholique de Louvain |
1991 | Bachelier en philosophie (programme spécial) | Université catholique de Louvain |
1994 | Ingénieur civil - orientation sciences des matériaux | Université catholique de Louvain |
1996 | License en philosopie | Université catholique de Louvain |
1998 | Docteur en sciences appliquées | Université catholique de Louvain |