Scientist portrait: Oriane Senninger

    Assistant Research Professor in 2MS research team

    ORIANE SENNINGER, NEW ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL SOLIDIFICATION

    Portrait de chercheur : Oriane Senninger

    The Metallurgy, Mechanics, Structures and Solidification (2MS) team led by Charles-André Gandin expands with the arrival of Oriane Senninger. She will participate in the development of activities on the modelling of phase transformations in solidification processes using the Cellular Automaton Coupled Finite Element method (CAFE). Her modelling work will notably improve the understanding of phase transformations occurring in additive manufacturing processes.

    Dr Oriane Senninger was selected following an open recruitment campaign and after an 18-month postdoctoral fellowship at CEMEF. She therefore knows the lab well and can talk about her new duties.

    WHAT IS YOUR SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND?

    Since I started in research, I have been driven by the desire to understand the physics of phase transformations, all the links. I studied nano scales in my PhD, then my two postdocs allowed me to visit micrometric scales.

    AND AT CEMEF?

    In the 2MS team, the studies focus on higher scales, where the physical phenomena of the different scales are interconnected. This position is part of a logic and continuity.

    My experiences at smaller scales give me a different perspective perhaps. When I model a phenomenon, I have in mind everything that can happen at the smallest scales and influence the result.

    The team I join has solidification as a central theme. There is little interaction between this community and the one I was part of in my PhD (physics of phase transformations in solids). Combining them is interesting because both aspects are involved in forming processes. I will bring my knowledge to the solid state and will be a reinforcement in materials physics.

    WHAT'S YOUR NEW JOB LIKE?

    I enjoy being part of a collaborative work in a group that has strong global expertise. I also enjoy joining a laboratory whose mission is partnership research. I need to know what the work I'm doing is for. Industrial innovation is one of the motivations for my research.

    I also got a taste of group research in the United States where I stayed for two years. With the principle of a professor supervising a group of doctoral and post-doctoral students. This gives a dynamic and lively organization. I find this dimension here. There are a lot of students at CEMEF, which brings a lot of freshness.

    CEMEF IN THREE WORDS

    1. Concrete
    2. Excellence because quality is required
    3. Dynamism

    When I started my postdoc at CEMEF, what I particularly liked was the large number of PhD students. It brings a real dynamism to the lab.

    Photo d'Oriane Senninger, enseignant chercheur