Chairs

Prof. Laszlo S. Toth is an internationally known personality of the mechanics and materials scientific community since about 1990. He earned his high recognition through his broad knowledge in both mechanics and materials, which permits him to make the bridge between these two disciplines. His high standard interdisciplinary activity made him an ideal collaborator in the best laboratories of several countries where he spent long periods. Established now in France, his original scientific activity attracts many excellent foreign scientists for joint research. The recent expertise of Prof. Toth is in the field of experiments and mechanical modeling of textures and microstructures of SPD materials, especially on quantitative modeling of grain refinement. Prof. Toth published 180 refereed papers, his h factor is 50; he is among the top 1% best impact scientists. He founded two laboratories, the laboratory ‘LEM3’ in 2010 counting 160 persons, then the Laboratory of Excellence on Design of Alloy Metals for low-mAss Structures ('DAMAS') in 2012.

Sabine Denis is Professor at University of Lorraine and was the head of the SI2M department (Science and Engineering of Materials and Metallurgy) of the Institute Jean Lamour from 2009 to 2020 and is head of the Labex DAMAS from September 2021. Her main scientific interests are: couplings between stresses and phase transformations; modelling, numerical simulation and in situ experimental validation at different scales; prediction of residual stresses and deformations during heat treatment of metallic alloys; local stresses associated with microstructures (micromechanics…). She is strongly promoting the research and education in metallurgy, actively involved in numerous projects and research networks in France and also in Europe. She chaired and co-chaired several international conferences. She is holding several distinctions for her high impact teaching and research activities.   

Mikhail Lebyodkin (or Lebedkin) has completed his PhD from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1989. He started his career at the research Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and has got the degree of Doctor of Science in 2002. Since 2006 he is Research Director in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), appointed at the LEM3, which he headed during the period from 2013 to 2017. His main research interests concern mechanical behaviour of materials, self-organization of crystal defects, and relationships between mechanical and physical properties (magnetic, electric) of solids. The development of original approaches to self-organization of dislocations associated with the phenomenon of plastic instability was marked by the Portevin medal of the French Society for Metallurgy and Materials (SF2M) in 2014.