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Yves Bréchet
Nationality	French
Scientific career
Fields	Materials Scientist
Institutions	Grenoble Institute of Technology, Institut Universitaire de France

Yves Bréchet is a physicist, specialist of materials science, professor at the Grenoble Institute of Technology, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Yves Bréchet graduated from École Polytechnique (1981), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (1992) and obtained his doctoral degree and habilitation from Joseph Fourier University in 1987 and 1992, respectively.

He currently is a full professor at Grenoble INP, an associate profesor at McMaster University (Canada), a senior Professor at the Institut Universitaire de France, and a member of the SIMaP (Materials and Processes Science and Engineering) Laboratory with the University of Grenoble.

On November 30 2010, he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences.

Activities

His activities have been and are in physical metallurgy, thermodynamics, microstructures, phase transformations, plasticity, fracture micromechanics, material selection, structural design, biointerfaces, structural biomimetics.

He is a member of the scientific council of ArcelorMittal and the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique, and a scientific advisor for Alcan, EDF and ONERA.

He is as member of the editorial board of J.Comp.Sim.Mat.Sc.Eng, Materials Science Engineering and Acta Materialia.

Honors and Awards

• Pechiney Prize of the French Academy of Sciences(1990)
• Gledden Fellowship , University of Western Australia(1993)
• Materials Science and Technology Prize of FEMS (1995)
• Körber European Science Award (1996), (together with M. Ashby and M. Rappaz)
• Junior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France(1992-97)
• Weinberg Lecture, University of British Columbia, Canada (2003)
• Sawamura and Guimaraes awards from ISIJ , Japan(2006)
• Cohen Lectures, Northwestern University (2006)
• D.K.McDonald Lecture, Canada (2007)
• CNRS Silver Medal (2009)
• Max Planck Lecture, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart (2009)
• Thermec Distinguished award (2009)
• Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (2009)
• Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.
• Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (2010)
• Lee Hsun Research Award, China (2010)
• Henry Marion Howe Medal (2010)
• Prix Gay-Lussac-Humboldt (2010)
• Member of the French Academy of Sciences(2010)

Bibliography

• Y. Bréchet, Microstructures, Mechanical Properties and Processes, EUROMAT 99. Volume 3 (2000)
• J. Agren, Y. Bréchet, C. Hutchinson, J. Philibert, G. Purdy, Thermodynamics and Phase Tranformations, EDP Sciences, 2006
• Y.Bréchet, D.Embury, P.Onck, Architectured Multifunctional Materials, MRS Symposium Proceedings (2009)

Notes and references

Category:Materials scientists and engineers Category:French physicists Category:Members of the French Academy of Sciences