Tanguy Rouxel

Tanguy Rouxel is a Mechanical Engineer (ENSAM, Paris), a Doctor in Ceramic Science (ENSCI, Limoges) and a Professor of Glass Science and Solid Mechanics at the University of Rennes 1. After graduating he became a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Government Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya (then the NIRIN, Japan). He then held a position as a CNRS Researcher in Ceramics Science for four years. In 1997, he was appointed Professor at the University of Rennes 1, where he founded a laboratory focusing on flow and fracture in glasses and ceramics. Tanguy Rouxel’s approach to the mechanical properties of brittle materials, especially glasses, is based on the role of the structure of the material at the atomic and nanoscale levels, and draw knowledges from seemingly disparate fields (chemistry, physics and mechanics) to get insight into the elastic properties, the permanent deformation mechanisms and the surface damages processes.

He was awarded the French ceramic society prize (1992), the CNRS Bronze medal (1996), the junior fellowship of the Institute Universitaire de France (2001), the Yvan Peyches Award of the French Academy of Sciences (2007), the Otto Schott Research Award (2010), the Advanced Grant of the European Research Council “Pushing the Frontier of Glass Brittlness” (2012), the senior fellowship of the Institute Universitaire de France (2018), and the Alfred R. Cooper lecture and award from the Glass Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society (2018).