{"id":7546,"date":"2026-09-24T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnrs-imn.fr\/7546\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:21:00","slug":"7546","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnrs-imn.fr\/en\/7546\/","title":{"rendered":"Florent Pawula, Appointed Associate Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnrs-imn.fr\/en\/member\/pawula-florent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Florent Pawula<\/strong><\/a> as <strong>an associate professor at <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/english.univ-nantes.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nantes University<\/a> in the Faculty of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>After completing his PhD at <a href=\"https:\/\/crismat.cnrs.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CRISMAT<\/a> (Laboratory of Crystallography and Materials Science, UMR 6508) on the &#8220;Particularities of Ruthenium Oxides Probed by the Seebeck Effect,&#8221; Florent Pawula undertook his first postdoctoral fellowship at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcpo.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LCPO<\/a> &#8211; Laboratory of Organic Polymer Chemistry in Bordeaux, where he studied the transport properties of conductive polymers and hybrid perovskites. Following the award of two research grants from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsps.go.jp\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan Society for the Promotion of Science<\/a> (JSPS), he then undertook a second postdoctoral fellowship at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nims.go.jp\/eng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Institute for Materials Science<\/a> (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan, in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/tokyo.office.cnrs.fr\/research\/link\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laboratory for INnovative Key Materials and Structures<\/a> (LINK- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnrs.fr\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNRS<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saint-gobain.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saint-Gobain<\/a> , IRL 3629), hosted by the National Institute for Materials Science. His research activities then focused on the &#8220;development of new thermoelectric chalcogenic materials assisted by active machine learning and Bayesian optimization.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>He then joined<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnrs-imn.fr\/en\/\">the Institut des Mat\u00e9riaux de Nantes<\/a> as an LRU faculty member at the University of Nantes within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnrs-imn.fr\/en\/physics-of-materials-and-nanostructures\/\"><strong>the Physics of Materials and Nanostructures (PMN) team<\/strong><\/a> to conduct research on \u201cthe ultrafast dynamics of the Mott transition under optical and electrical pulses, as well as on unconventional superconductivity and topological phases in transition-metal dichalcogenide misfits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deeply involved in the life of the laboratory, Florent is in charge of the Physical Property Measurement System (Dynacool, QD) at the <a href=\"https:\/\/plassmat.cnrs-imn.fr\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PLASSMAT<\/a> platform, and he is also a member of the Equality Committee \u2013 Parity Committee to promote gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in research, as well as to prevent gender-based and sexual violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to welcome Florent Pawula as an  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-pmn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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