Thomas Pardoen

Version 21/04/2017

Education

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 la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium, 1998 – 2000

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, 9^th 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, 27^th International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials; july 2018, Bologne, 10^th 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

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