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Invited Speakers
Dr. Priyanka Jood
Global Zero Emission Research Center (GZR), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Priyanka Jood is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. Her interests are mainly focused on the development of chalcogenide-based thermoelectric materials and devices, and the study of the materials physics and chemistry for manipulating the transport behavior. She received her PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Wollongong, Australia in 2012. A major part of her PhD work was carried out as a visiting scholar in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States. She joined as a Postdoctoral fellow in AIST in 2012 and received the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship in 2015. She has been a Researcher at AIST since 2016.
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Dr. Susumu Fujii (Assistant Professor)
Division of Materials and Manufucturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Susumu Fujii is an Assistant Professor at the Osaka University, Japan. He obtained his B.Eng., M.Eng., and D.Eng. from the Osaka University, based on his computational studies on thermal conduction in oxide ceramics. He has spent time working at the Laboratoire de Cristallographie et Sciences des Matériaux, France, as a visiting scholar during JSPS Research fellow, the Osaka university as a specially appointed researcher, and the Japan Fine Ceramics Center as a Researcher. His research interests are primarily on atomistic modeling and theoretical calculations for functional materials including thermoelectrics, with a special focus on ceramic defects and their dynamics.
Dr. Kei Hayashi (Associate Professor)
Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
Kei Hayashi received the M.Sci. and D.Sci. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He spent four years as a Researcher at the Photodynamics Research Center, Riken, Japan, before joining the faculty of the Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Japan in 2006, first as a Research Associate and then as an Assistant Professor. He has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Japan, since 2014. He is the author or co-author of 105 papers in international refereed journals, 2 book chapters, and 8 patents. His research interests include the development of inorganic and organic thermoelectric materials, photovoltaic materials, pyroelectric/multiferroic ceramics, and devices for energy harnessing applications.
Dr. Naoki Sato
International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Naoki Sato is an ICYS Research Fellow at International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. He received his B.Eng. (2013), M.Sc. (2015), and Ph.D. (2018) degrees in Materials Science from The University of Tokyo under the supervision of Prof. Kaoru Kimura, and did postdoctoral research at Prof. Takao Mori's group in International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), NIMS (2018–2020). His current research interests include developing novel thermoelectric materials and understanding unusual thermal transport in materials with structural complexity.
Dr. Sylvain Le Tonquesse
Laboratoire LINK (CNRS-Saint Gobain-NIMS)
Sylvain Le Tonquesse is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for INnovative Key Materials and Structures (LINK) hosted at the NIMS-CNRS-Saint Gobain International Collaboration Center at the National Institute for Material Sciences (NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan). He obtained his MSc in Materials Sciences in 2016 and his PhD in Materials Chemistry in 2019 at the University of Rennes 1 (Rennes, France) under the supervision of M. Pasturel, C. Prestipino and V. Demange. His thesis focused on the magnesioreduction syntheses of thermoelectric skutterudites and transition-metal silicides. He particularly studied the influence of this original synthesis process on the structure and microstructure of the compounds that he synthesized and how this affects their thermoelectric properties. He performed some in-depth crystallographic studies of his materials, and was awarded the ‘Prix de Thèse de l’AFC 2020’ awarded by the French Association of Crystallography for the best PhD thesis in the field ‘Chemistry’. After his PhD, he moved in 2019 to NIMS as a JSPS fellow for 9 months in the group of T. S. Suzuki where he developed a texturation process for thermoelectric transition-metal silicides which involves slip-casting of suspensions under strong magnetic fields. In 2020, he joined LINK in Tsukuba as a postdoctoral fellow to work on the ANR HighTerm project aiming at developing a process for making viable electrical contacts on high-temperature thermoelectric materials assisted by machine learning approach.
Dr. Soufiane El Oualid
Institut Jean Lamour (IJL), Nancy
Soufiane EL OUALID is currently a Project Maturation Engineer at SATT Sayens (Nancy, France). He earned an engineer degree in engineering of functional materials from Cadi Ayyad University (Marocco), followed by a MSc. in Materials and Surfaces Engineering (2015) from Arts & Métiers Engineering School (Cluny, France) and a MSc in Materials and Associated Technologies: Materials for Energy (2016) at Aix-Marseille University (Marseille, France). He performed his Ph.D. study at the Institut Jean Lamour of the University of Lorraine in Nancy, working on the development and optimization of thermoelectric generators for IoT applications in collaboration with Mahle GmbH. After finishing his Ph.D. in 2019, he spent 6 months at the French Scientific Research National Center, developing finite-element modelings of thermoelectric systems for temperature control of electronic components for aeronautical applications in collaboration with Thales R&T. In 2020, he joined SATT Sayens for the development of thermoelectric generators for medium- and high-temperature applications. Soufiane’s research interest focuses on the design and fabrication of advanced thermoelectric (TE) materials and devices via a combined experiment/theory approach. He notably reported a novel design of TE generators with skutterudites, reaching very high output power density values. Above all Soufiane has demonstrated theoretically how the inherent difficulties related to the fabrication, assembly and integration can be mitigated using an innovative flexible μ-TEG design based on bismuth telluride thin films to achieve notable output power at room temperature.
Dr. Adrien Moll
Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est (ICMPE), Thiais
Adrien Moll is a postdoc researcher at the Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est (ICMPE), France. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2018 from the University of Montpellier, investigating the effect of nanostructuration on thermoelectric properties of CrSi2 single crystals, thin films, nanowires and nanocrystallites. He then moved to Grenoble, France, for a one-year postdoctoral position at SIMaP Laboratory, where he developed a new process to produce 3D titanium alloy objects coated with aluminum nitride for surface properties enhancement. Now at ICMPE since 2019, his researches are related to the experimental study of new ternary thermoelectric materials selected by screening calculations. This topic is part of the ScrIn ANR project and highlighted new promising compounds for thermoelectricity.
Dr. Simon Thébaud
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA)
Simon Thébaud obtained a master’s degree in the teaching of physical sciences and a master’s degree in physics at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. He then obtained his PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. His thesis, entitled “Electron and phonon transport in disordered thermoelectric materials: dimensional confinement, resonant scattering and localization”, consists in the study of various thermoelectric materials and phenomena using both simple tight-binding models and Density Functional Theory. He is currently a postdoctoral associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he works on the vibrational and thermal properties of materials for energy applications.
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