Rheology of Earth Materials :
Closing the gap between timescales in the laboratory and in the mantle

Patrick Cordier - Curriculum Vitæ

PERSONAL INFORMATION

CORDIER Patrick
Researcher unique identifier(s): ResearcherID: D-2357-2012 - ORCID: 0000-0002-1883-2994
Date of birth: February 1st, 1961 in Paris (France) - Nationality: French
Previous web site: www.rheoman.eu (previous ERC project)

EDUCATION

  • 1995 Habilitation à diriger des recherches en Sciences Physiques, University of Lille, France
  • 1989 PhD in Materials Science, University of Lille, France
  • 1985 Master in Materials Science (Diplôme d’ingénieur EUDIL (today Polytech’Lille)), University of Lille, France

CURRENT POSITIONS

  • 2019-2025: PI of the ERC Advanced Grant TimeMan project
  • 2019 - 2024: Senior member, Institut Universitaire de France
  • 2019 - present: Visiting professor, Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique.
  • 2013 - present: “Distinguished” professor of Physics (Professeur de classe exceptionnelle), University of Lille, France

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

  • 2018-2020: "Plasticity" Group Leader at UMET
  • 2012-2018: PI of the ERC Advanced Grant RheoMan project
  • 2005 “First class” Professor of Physics, University of Lille, France
  • 2000-2017 "Mineral Physics" Group Leader at UMET
  • 1998-1999 Sabbatical leave (6 months) at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth, Germany
  • 1996 Professor of Physics, University of Lille, France
  • 1989 Associate professor (Maître de Conférences) of Physics, University of Lille, University of Lille, France
  • 1989 Research associate, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio, USA

HONOURS

  • 2022: Elected Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2019 : Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
  • 2019 : Laureate of Institut Universitaire de France (Senior member)
  • 2018 : Laureate of the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grants) : TimeMan project
  • 2016 : Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
  • 2015 : Grand Prix Kuhlmann of Société des Sciences, de l’Agriculture et des Arts de Lille (SSAAL)
  • 2012: Officier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
  • 2011 : Laureate of the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grants) : RheoMan project
  • 2008: Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
  • 2007: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Post-doc: 11 since 1997

PhD completed (19):

  • 2023: V. Delbecq - Préparation Agrégation de Sciences Physiques
  • 2019: B.C. Nzogang - Ingénieur DevOps chez SOGETREL 
  • 2018: R. Reali - Technical Geologist at Studio Pietrangeli l dams & hydropower engineering
  • 2018: S. Mahendran - Post-doc at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
  • 2016: A. Goryaeva (2017 Haüy-Lacroix award of the SFMC (French Mineralogical Society)) – Chercheuse CEA Saclay
  • 2016: A. Kraych - Data scientist, Siemens Energy
  • 2016: S.A.W. Ritterbex - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Utrecht University
  • 2016: N. Garvik - Engineer, SOGETI
  • 2011: J. Amodeo (2012 Dalla Torre award of the SF2M (French Society of Metallurgy)) - CNRS researcher, IM2NP UMR 7334 CNRS Univ. Aix-Marseille
  • 2011: C. Nisr - Assistant Research Scientist, Arizona State University
  • 2010: A. Metsue – Assistant professor, University of La Rochelle - Deceased.
  • 2009: A. Hamoudi - Engineer SETRA
  • 2009: E. Amiguet – Regulatory Affairs Manager, IMERYS
  • 2005: J. Durinck – Assistant professor, University of Poitiers
  • 2005: H. Couvy – Research Engineer, Dept of Earth and Planet. Sci., Washington University in St. Louis
  • 2002: Ph. Carrez (2003 Haüy award of the SFMC) – Professor of Physics, University of Lille
  • 2001: E. Thurel – Research engineer, Vallourec
  • 2000: C. Dalle – Lecturer in a school of engineering in Lille
  • 1998: V. Voegelé-Maltier (1999 Haüy award of the SFMC) – Research engineer

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

(Since 2012)

  • 2023: MRM 2023, Kyoto. Organizer of Symposium A-4: New Materials Science on Nanoscale Structures and Functions of "Crystal Defect Cores"
  • Promoter of the Year of Mineralogy proclaimed in 2022 within the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD 2022)
  • 2022: General meeting of the IMA, Lyon, France. Member of the national organization committee.
  • 2021: Co-chair (with A. Gülcher, S. Ritterbex, J. van Driel and J. Hernlund) of the session “From Minerals to the dynamics of the Earth’s interior: linking crystal chemistry, rheology and geodynamics across the scales” at EGU 2021
  • 2021: Co-chair (with B. Gilbert, K. Marquardt and R. Harrison) of the theme “Nano to microscale processes” at Goldschmidt 2021
  • 2016: Multi-disciplinary workshop "Flow in the deep Earth" at Collège de France, co-organized with B. Romanowicz
  • 2016: 51e meeting of the French society of rheology, Lille. Member of the scientific committee
  • 2016: 2nd European Mineralogical Conference "Minerals, rocks and fluids: alphabet and words of planet Earth" EMC2016, Rimini, Italy. Member of the Scientific Committee
  • 2015: GeoBerlin, Berlin, Germany : co-chairman of the session " Properties of Earth materials and constraints on mantle flow " with H. Marquardt and R. Farla
  • 2013: 23rd Goldschmidt conference, Firenze, Italy : co-chair of session 21d (Transport Processes in the Earth's Interior from Experiment and Simulation) with D. Dobson, J. Van Orman and A. Walker
  • 2012: AGU 2012 Fall Meeting, San Francisco : co-chair of session MR14 (Rheology of Deep Earth Materials: Spanning 12 Orders of Magnitude of Length Scales) with P. Burnley and H.P. Bunge
  • 2012: EMC2012 European Mineralogical Conference at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt – Member of the scientific committee
  • 2012: 22nd Goldschmidt conference, Montreal. co-chair of session 03A (Flow and deformation in planetary interiors) with N. Miyajima

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • 2023 - : President of Société des Sciences, de l’Agriculture et des Arts de Lille (SSAAL)
  • 2021 - 2022: Vice-president of Société des Sciences, de l’Agriculture et des Arts de Lille (SSAAL)
  • 2018 – 2020 President of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA)
  • 2016 – 2018 1st Vice-president of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA)
  • 2016 – present Chair of the PhD Student Award committee of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA)
  • 2008 – 2009 President of the French Mineralogical Society (Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie: SFMC)

EDITORIAL BOARDS

  • 2011 – 2021: Chief Editor of European Journal of Mineralogy
  • 2015 – 2018 Associate Editor of American Mineralogist
  • 1999 – 2011 Associate Editor of European Journal of Mineralogy