Dr. Pierre Hirel

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  • 2 January 2024: new article about twist grain boundaries in forsterite, published in Comput. Mater. Science
  • 3-5 April 2023: we present our work on grain boundaries in MgO and in olivine, during the Plasticité 2023 colloquium in Lyon, France.
  • 2-7 October 2022: our work on grain boundaries in MgO and in forsterite are presented by Philippe Carrez and Jean Furstoss, during the MMM 10 conference in Baltimore (USA).
  • 1 September 2022: new article about domain wall pinning in ferroelectric BaTiO3, published in Phys. Rev. B.
  • 28 August 2022: new article about grain boundary complexions in rock-salt materials, published in Acta. Mater.
  • 11-13 July 2022 : contribution to the Matelec colloquium in Lille, France.
  • 13 April 2022: new article modelling grain boundaries in forsterite, published in Amer. Miner.

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I am Assistant Professor in materials physics at the University of Lille, France, where I work at the UMET laboratory. My main centers of interest are the mechanical properties, diffusion, dislocations, and grain boundaries, in complex materials such as ceramics and minerals, which I study with atomic-scale simulations. To know more about my research topics, refer to this page.

After studying physics at the University of Rennes, France, I performed my PhD thesis at the Phymat laboratory at the University of Poitiers, France. After that, I worked as a post-doc researcher at the KIT in Karlsruhe and the Fraunhofer IWM in Freiburg, Germany. Then I worked as a post-doc researcher at the UMET laboratory at the University of Lille, France. You may read more about my cursus on this page.

I am also the author of Atomsk, a code for creating and manipulating atomic systems for simulations and visualization.

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