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Current functions

• CNRS research engineer, PhD.
• Specialist in transmission electron microscopy (high-resolution corrected S/TEM imaging, spectroscopies: EDX and monochromate EELS, electron diffraction, tomography…).
• Member of the PLASSMAT platform operational committee (2023-…)
• Member of the PLASSMAT platform steering committee (2023-2025)

Previous functions

• Head of MET at IC2MP in Poitiers (2001-2005)
• Elected to the IC2MP Laboratory Council (2002-2005)
• Elected to the IMN Laboratory Council (2012-2016)
• IT correspondent at the IMN management office (2017-2019)

Qualifications
2010-2014: PhD thesis, University of Nantes: Characterization of polycrystalline heterostructures by transmission electron microscopy: application to Cu(In,Ga)Se2-based solar cells
1998-1999: DESS in Microstructural Analysis of Materials, University of Poitiers
1997-1998: Maitrise in Physical Sciences, University of Nantes

Recent or current research projects

• ANR Compagnon project “Piezo-magnetic composite by field sintering” (2023-2027)
• European OPINCHARGE project “OPerando analyses and modelling of INterface dynamics and CHARGE transport in lithium-ion batteries” (2023-2026)
• ANR Iodine-CLEAN-UP project “Iodine: Conditioning this long half-life element in pressurized nuclear glass and glass-ceramics” (2020-2025)
• ANR Acetone project “Radiation chemistry as a powerful tool for controlling the properties of nanometric materials” (2020-2024)
• ANR EPCIS project “High-efficiency CIGS-Silicon Epitaxial Tandem Cells” (2020-2024)

Professional networks

• Member of the French Microscopy Society (SFµ)
• Member of the European Microscopy Society (EMS)
• Member of the Philips Microscope Users Group (GUMP)

Publications

February 2024:

• More than 100 publications (h-index : 26 – source Web of Science)
• 2 invited seminars / 2 oral presentations at international conferences / 7 posters

Recent publications:

• Structural and property engineering of 2D titanium carbides (MXene) thin films using ion irradiation.
  BENMOUMEN, Ayoub, DAVID, Marie-Laure, GAUTRON, Eric, et al.
  Applied Surface Science, 2024, vol. 652, p. 159206.
• Radiolysis of Thin Water Ice in Electron Microscopy
  Patricia Abellan*, Eric Gautron, and Jay A. LaVerne*
  J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127, 31, 15336-15345
• Hexagonal Tungsten Bronze H0.25Cs0.25Nb2.5W2.5O14 as a Negative Electrode Material for Li-Ion Batteries
  Etienne Le Calvez, Julio César Espinosa-Angeles, Éric Gautron, Éric Quarez, Olivier Crosnier, and Thierry Brousse*
  Chem. Mater. 2023, 35, 8, 3162-3171
• Crystal structures, frustrated magnetism, and chemical pressure in Sr-doped Ba3NiSb2O9 perovskites.
  Melanie Viaud, Catherine Guillot-Deudon, Eric Gautron, Maria Teresa Caldes, Guido Berlanda, Philippe Deniard, Philippe Boullay, Florence Porcher, Carole La, Celine Darie, A. Zorko, A. Ozarowski, Fabrice Bert, Philippe Mendels and Christophe Payen.
  Physical Review Materials 2022, 6
• Epitaxial growth of CIGSe layers on GaP/Si(001) pseudo-substrate for tandem CIGSe/Si solar cells.
  Nicolas Barreau, Olivier Durand, Eugène Bertin, Antoine Létoublon, Charles Cornet, Polyxeni Tsoulka, Eric Gautron and Daniel Lincot.
  Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 2021, 233, 111385
• Design of metastable oxychalcogenide phases by topochemical (de)intercalation of sulfur in La2O2S2.
  Shunsuke Sasaki, Maria Teresa Caldes, Catherine Guillot-Deudon, Isabelle Braems, Gwladys Steciuk, Lukas Palatinus, Eric Gautron, Gilles Frapper, Etienne Janod, Benoit Corraze, Stephane Jobic and Laurent Cario.
  Nat Commun 2021, 12, 3605
• Toward the Coordination Fingerprint of the Edge-Sharing BO4 Tetrahedra..
  Eric Quarez, Eric Gautron, Michael Paris, David Gajan and Jean-Yves Mevellec.
  Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 2406-2413

Communication since 2019

Invited presentations:
– “Apport de la MET à l’analyse structurale des cellules solaires à base de Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2″, GDR Chalco (Montpellier, 2025)
” Exemples d’applications du S/TEM Nant’Themis en sciences du vivant “, journée scientifique Axe bio-imagerie de Biogenouest: La microscopie électronique en sciences de la vie, ONIRIS (Nantes, 2022)
– “Le MET Nant’Themis : premières résultats après un an d’utilisation”, invited seminar at IC2MP (Poitiers, 2019)
– “Automated acquisitions with SerialEM: applications in cryo-microscopy and electron crystallography”, IMN in-house seminar (Nantes, 2019)

Presentations:
– “Microstructural characterization of CIGS/GaP/Si-based tandem solar cells”, SFµ Congress (Rouen, 2023)

Posters:
– SFµ Congress (Toulouse, 2025)
– SFµ Congress (Rouen, 2023)
– Folle Journée de l’imagerie Nantaise (Nantes, 2019)
– SFµ Congress (Poitiers, 2019)

Newsletters:
– European Microscopy Society Yearbook (2019)

Workshop:
– Organization of the Advanced Direct Detection EELS Workshop on the Nant’Themis with Gatan (2019)

Inaugurations/visits:
Visit from Jacques Maddaluno, Director of the CNRS Institute of Chemistry, and Alexandre Legris, Deputy Scientific Director in charge of sections 11 and 15 (2023)
– Visit from Antoine Petit, CEO of CNRS
– Demonstration of the Nant’Themis in front of ESR Minister Frédérique Vidal
– Organization of the inauguration of the Nant’Themis (2019)

General public:
– Organization and running of the “Microscopy: how to see the infinitely small?” workshop at the “Nuit Blanche des Chercheurs” (Nantes, 2020)
– Video “Nantes : La nuit blanche des chercheurs a pour thème “Preuves en images””, France3-régions (2020)
– Video “NANT’THEMIS – Un microscope parmi les plus performants du monde installé à l’IMN”, Nantes Université (2019)