RICHARD-PLOUET Mireille

Directrice de Recherche CNRS

Fonctions : 

• Since 2019: Head of PCM group
• Since 2018: Directrice de recherche CNRS at the Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel, in the Plasma and Thin films group, PCM
• 2017-2018: Chargé de recherche CNRS at the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, in Nantes in the Plasma and Thin films group, PCM
• 2003-2017: Chargé de recherche CNRS at the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, in Nantes in the CESES group
• 1995-2002: Chargé de recherché CNRS at the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, in the Groupe des Matériaux Inorganiques
• 1994-1995: Post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratoire de Recherche sur les tissus calcifiés. « Caractérisation de matériaux de substitution osseux, avant et après implantation chez l’animal, par diffraction électronique et microscopie électronique à transmission »

Qualifications :

• 2011: habilitation à diriger des recherches
• 1994: PhD university of Nantes, “Synthèse, caractérisation et échange acido-basique de perovskites feuilletées: A2Ln2Ti3O10 (A=Na, K, Ln=Y, La, Nd). » Supervised by Dr Luc Brohan at the Institut des Matériaux de Nantes.

Expertises :

• Synthesis of thin films coupling chemistry in solution and Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition
• Characterisations of nanostructured solids and thin films by XPS, vibrational spectroscopies, X-Rays diffraction, Transmission Electron Microscopy

Principales thématiques de recherche :

• Nanocomposite thin films by coupling chemistry in solution and Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition
• Transition metal oxides by chimie douce (soft chemistry) and plasma for photo-induced applications, opto-electronic applications

Projets de recherche en cours : 

Involved in 2 to 3 projects per year as partner or responsible

Activités dans la communauté de recherche : 

• Co- and supervision of 25 doctors since 1998
• Involvement in ANR (National Agency of Research) projects with industrial partnership
• Since 2020: Member of the scientific committee of the Research Federation FR 2050 Photoelectron spectroscopy
• Member of the scientific committee of the Group of Research, GDR HPero (2017-2022)
• Member of the Committee for Electron Spectroscopies representing the Nord-West part of France since 2016
• Since 2022, member of the steering committee of the French-Canadian International Research Network dedicated to Controlled Multifunctional Nanomaterials
• Member of the local committee in Nantes, at the Ecole Doctorale ED3PML, the ED3M and finally ED 3 MG, including pre-examination for the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches since 2015

Biographie :

Mireille Richard-Plouet is a French researcher in the field of inorganic materials and nanomaterials. She obtained her PhD from the University of Nantes in 1994, with a thesis on the synthesis and characterization of layered perovskites, under the supervision of Dr Luc Brohan. After a post-doctoral position, at the Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Tissus Calcifiés (1994-1995), she joined the CNRS as a full-time researcher at the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (1995-2002), where she studied low-dimensional magnetic materials and developed sol-gel and hydrothermal syntheses. In 2003, she joined the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN) in Nantes, where she was promoted to research director in 2018 and took over as head of the « Plasma and Thin Films » group in 2019. Her work focuses on nanocomposite thin films, transition metal oxides for optoelectronic applications, and advanced characterization of nanostructured solids using techniques such as XPS spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy.

Winner of the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2000, she has supervised over 20 PhD students since 1998 and published 113 scientific papers.

Involved in the scientific community, she plays an active part in national and industrial research projects, and sits on several scientific committees, including that of the FR 2050 research federation on photoemission spectroscopy, and the steering committee of the Franco-Canadian research network dedicated to Controlled Multifunctional Nanomaterials.