Speakers

Yazami Rachid

Is a Moroccan scientist, engineer, and inventor. He is best known for his critical role in the development of the graphite anode (negative pole) for lithium-ion batteries and his research on fluoride ion batteries. While holding a research director position with the CNRS in France, Yazami served as a visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology between 2000 and 2010. In 2010, Yazami was appointed a Nanyang Visiting Professor. He was promoted in 2012 to the Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor in Energy at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Yazami is the co-author involved in over 250 published papers and the co-inventor of about 160 patents related to lithium primary and rechargeable batteries and on new battery chemistry based on fluoride ion. In 2014, Rachid Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi, and Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize by The National Academy of Engineering for pioneering and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery. The prize. That same year, Yazami was a finalist of the Global Energy Award (Russia, 2014).

Azar Maalouf

Currently works at the Lab-STICC laboratory in the University of Bretagne Occidentale, France. His main scientific interests are the physical chemistry of materials and particularly the study and the implementation of these materials in thin or thick layers and also that of massive materials. The fields of application are: Rechargeable batteries and accumulators (2001 - 2003), optical guided devices (2003 - 2010), materials and circuits operating in the domains of microwaves and hyper-frequencies (2011-present), 3D printing / materials and process (2012-present), electrooptic phenomena / Pockels effect (2022-present).

https://cnrs.hal.science/search/index/?q=authFullName_t%3A%28%22Azar+Maalouf%22+OR+%22A+Maalouf%22%29+OR+authIdHal_i%3A740353

Kohji Nakamura

Professor at Mie University in Japan and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research interests include development of ab-initio computational method, full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method, for studying the magnetism phenomena in complex material systems including their use for investigations on non-collinear magnetism, and spin-orbital induced- and external electric field-induced magnetic phenomena of films and at surfaces/interfaces.

Konstantinos TERMENTZIDIS

He is a CNRS Research Director at the Centre for Energy and Thermal Sciences of Lyon (CETHIL), and member of the "Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer" (MiNT) group at CETHIL. Since 2018 he is co-responsible of the nano-micro-thermal thematic group of the SFT (Société Française de Thermique) and since 2020 director of the GDR-NAME (Nanomaterials for Energy Applications a French National Scientific Network).
His research is mainly focused on the influence of interfaces, surfaces and point or extended defects on the thermal properties of materials in nanoscales (superlattices, thin films, nanowires, nanotubes). Currently, he continues his research on the Modelling and Simulations of the Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Properties and Phenomena at the Nanoscale, which is related to the open questions of the heat dissipation in nanostructures. Finally, he is working on the effect of the amorphous phase impact on the thermal properties of nanostructures and phononic crystals. Solid/liquid interfaces and interaction at nanoscale have also attracted his interest recently.

Jean Louis bantignies

Professor of Physics at the Laboratory Charles Coulomb in University Montpellier II. Research topics or attachments: Functional Nanomaterials, Development and study of networks, films and composites based on nanotubes. Doping, confinement and functionalization in nanotubes

https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/L2C/search/index/q/*/authFullName_s/Jean-Louis+Bantignies

Organic–inorganic nanohybrid materials: Self-assembling and properties

Laurent Alvarez

Currently works at the Laboratory Charles Coulomb in University Montpellier II. Laurent does research in Condensed Matter Physics and Experimental Physics. Their most recent publication is 'Non-Covalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes by Phthalocyanines Analyzed by Spatial-Resolved EELS'. He works on development and  study of networks, films and composites based on nanotubes. Doping, confinement and functionalization in nanotubes

https://www.coulomb.univ-montp2.fr/spip.php?page=publications&aigle_auteur=87

Modulating single-walled carbon nanotube opto-electronic properties by dye confinement

Amadou SEIDOU MAIGA

Professor at University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis (SENEGAL). He is graduated from Rennes 1 University (FRANCE) with a Master degree and a PhD in microelectronics. He has 30 years of experience in the field of Applied Sciences and technology being teacher and researcher, first in the Faculty of Sciences (University Abdou Moumouni of Niamey, NIGER) and since 2004, in the faculty of Applied Sciences and technology of university Gaston Berger (SENEGAL). His research activities have since focused on characterizing, modeling and simulating of electronic components and devices behaviour and photovoltaic cells and systems. In recent years he has been conducting various studies on silicon solar cells in order to contribute to the improvement of their performance which depend heavily, among other things, on the phenomenological parameters on which electrical parameters depend. Is also working on the influence of climate parameters on the behaviour of solar panels. The main objective is to understand the behaviour of photovoltaic panels in Sahelian environments and to contribute to the definition of appropriate qualification standards.

Djicknoum DIOUF

Professor of Physics at Applied Sciences and Technology faculty, Université Gaston Berger (UGB), Senegal. Basic academic training in fundamental physics at the Aix-Marseille III University (France); PhD in simulation of amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells at the Paris-Sud University in 2010. He joined UGB as associate professor in Physic in 2013. Currently, Head of the applied physic Department, he coordinated of the Master Sc. program Renewable Energies from 2015 to 2017. His research activities focus on the development of renewable energies (solar energy and bio-energies). He is interested in hybrid energy systems combining available renewable energy sources to provide reliable energy services to local populations. He is head of the Renewable Energies Team of the LEITER laboratory.

Mabrouk BENHAMOU

Professor at Faculty of Sciences, Meknes, Morocco, Researcher in Theoretical Physics, Statistical Physics, Soft-Condensed Matter, and Biological Sytems. Supervision of many theses. Author of more than four hundred of scientific papers and advanced books. Editor of many International Scientific Journals. Expert to the benefit of several International Scientific Institutions. Member of the directory of many National and International Scientific Societies and Receipient of many Awards and Distinctions.