Personal Information

Date and place of Birth: 14/09/77, Nice (France)

Nationality: French

Professional Address: Laboratoire de Physique,

sENS de Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon - France

Phone: (+33) 4 72 72 83 74

E-mail: stephane.santucci[at]ens-lyon.fr

Current position: CNRS researcher (CR1)

Education & Diplomas

Nov. 2014: “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”, ENS de Lyon

“Avalanches in disordered media”

Sept. 2004: PhD in Physics, (Supervisors: L.Vanel and S. Ciliberto), ENS de Lyon. 

“Thermally activated slow crack growth and crack pinning in heterogeneous materials”, 

2001: Master (M2) in “Statistical Physics and Non-Linear Phenomena”, ENS de Lyon. 

2000: Master (M1) in Physics, University Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

Professional Experience

Oct. 2008 –: Chargé de Recherche, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon

Jan. 2008 – Jan. 2009: “Senior Researcher”, Centre of Excellence PGP, Oslo (Norway).

Nov. 2004 – Jan. 2008: Post-doc, Fysisk Institutt, Oslo (Norway).

Current research area

Intermittent avalanche dynamics in disordered elastic systems

Structure and Dynamics of fracture fronts – Fluid invasion in porous & fractured materials

Formulation & Rheology of microcapsules & ultra-stable foams/emulsions 

Award:

1. - Invited researcher:
   

Aalto Univ., Helsinki (2015, 2012), Univ. Tokyo (2012), Oslo Univ. (2010, 2012),

Univ. Barcelona (2008, 2009), IPG Strasbourg (2007), CEA Saclay (2006)

- Prime d’Excellence Scientifique, CNRS (France), (October 2011)

1. - Best paper & presentation award as young researcher, “International Conference on Fracture” (Ottawa, 2009)
   

Main research contracts:

- Feb. 2014: “Fédération de Physique & ENS-Lyon”, 50 k€, Project: “Hot Cracks”.

1. - Oct. 2012: ANR BLANC SIMI9, STICKSLIP, 409 k€, Responsible ENS-Lyon,
   

  Project: “Stick-slip dynamics of adhesives peeling” (PI: L. Vanel, Univ. Lyon)

- Oct. 2011: “FRAMA”, 30 k€, Project: “Prediction of the failure of heterogeneous materials”.

- Jan. 2011: Région Rhône-Alpes, 50% funding of X. Clotet PhD, “Intermittent imbibition dynamics”

- Dec. 2009 - Dec 2011: L’Oréal R&D (120 k€, funding of a post-doc: R. Planet)

  Project “Durable aerated formulations”, PI: V. Bergeron (ENS Lyon).

- Jan. 2010 - Jan. 2011: Bluestar Silicones (60 k€, funding of a post-doc, C. Guerra)

Project “Anti-foaming formulations”, PI: V. Bergeron (ENS Lyon).

Teaching & Supervising

2015: Supervising experimental works and reports of master students (24 hours/year)

Since 2009:  Member of the jury for the L3, M1, M2, internship defense, ENS de Lyon.

2001 – 2004: Teaching assistant (64 hours/ year), ENS de Lyon

Post-docs:

T. Chevalier, (Nov. 2015 –) “Foam flow in model fracture”, (co-direction with A. Puisto and M. Alava)

R. Planet (Sept. 2014 - Sept. 2015), “Multi-scale stick-slip peeling of adhesive tape”

R. Perez (Oct. 2013 - Dec. 2014), “Glass transition under mechanical forcing” (15%, PI: S. Ciliberto)

R. Planet (Jan. 2009 - Jan. 2011), “Durable aerated formulations”, (codirection with V. Bergeron)

C. Guerra (Jan. 2010 - Jan. 2011), “Anti-foaming Formulations”, (15%, PI: V. Bergeron)

PhD students:

V. De Zotti, (Oct. 2015 –) “Multi-scale stick-slip peeling of adhesive tape”

M. Stojanova (Oct. 2012 - 2015) “Aftershocks in subcritical fracture” (25%, PIs: O. Ramos et L. Vanel)

X. Clotet (Sept. 2011- 2015), ”Intermittent Fluid Imbibition”, cotutelle with J. Ortin, Univ. Barcelona

M.-J. Dalbe (Sept. 2011), “Stick-slip peeling of adhesive tape”, codirection with L. Vanel, Univ. Lyon

K. T. Tallakstad (2007-2010), “Fracture of heterogeneous materials” codirection with K.J. Måløy, Oslo

R. Planet (2007-2009), “Fluid Imbibition in disordered media” participation to the supervision, Oslo/UiB

M. Grob, (2007), “Acoustic monitoring of cracks”, participation to the supervision, IPG Strasbourg/Oslo

Expertise 

1. -  Referee for Phys. Rev. Lett, EPL, Phys. Rev. E, Physica D, Frontiers, Journal of Structural Geology, International Journal of Fracture, International Journal of Damage Mechanics, EPJ-B
   

- Researcher recruitment – board member - MdC0286 - INSA-Lyon (Mai 2013)

- Projects evaluation: Institut des Systèmes Complexes, Labex PALM, Paris (Jan. 2016)

Univ. Grenoble, AGIR, (Février 2015), ISC, Paris (April 2014)

1. -Member of 5 PhD committee
   

Collective responsibility

-Co-organization of International Workshops & Schools:

Mini-symposium at the “21st European Conference on Fracture”, Catania, Italy (June, 2016)

“Statistical Physics of Materials”, Satellite Meeting of “Stat. Phys.16”, Aussois (June, 2016)

“Avalanches and Intermittency”, Courmayeur (Italy, March 2015)

“From Stone Age to Modern Physics: a story of crack patterns”, ENS-Lyon (Ap. 2014)

“Avalanches and Intermittency”, Courmayeur (Italy, Jan. 2014)

“Out-of-Equilibrium Physics”, ENS de Lyon, (June 2013)

- Responsible of the International CNRS Schools:

“Materials’ Deformation 2nd Edition” Les Houches, (17 - 22 Feb. 2013)

“Materials’ Deformation” Les Houches, (22 - 27 Jan. 2012)

-Oct.  2009 – Oct. 2013:  Responsible of the seminars "Laboratoire de Physique" ENS-Lyon,  

-Since Oct.  2009: Responsible of the web site of the team: "Matter and Complexity"