Subject: Surface hardening and fatigue behavior of titanium alloys induced by multi-interstitial followed by mechanical surface treatments: effect of property gradient.

Your tasks:

• You will perform the surface treatments of the samples and detailed analyses of their microstructures.
• You will perform cutting-edge techniques for characterizing microstructures, especially by electron microscopy.
• Your results will be discussed in the framework of materials physics.
• You will interact with researchers from several countries.
• You will publish your work in international scientific journals.
• You will share your time between Metz (France) and Poitiers (France).

Your profile:

• You must have a master’s degree in materials physics, passed with high honors.
• You must have good knowledge of materials physics, crystallography, metallurgy.
• You have good written and verbal communication skills, and enjoy working in an international team.
• Good English language skills are required.

Start date: October 1st 2021

For further information:

• Please contact: Prof. Luc PICHON (luc.pichon@univ-poitiers.fr) and Dr. Antoine GUITTON (antoine.guitton@univ-lorraine.fr).
• The subject is describe in details in the following document: « ApplicationPhD_Pprime_LEM3.pdf »

Application: https://www.antoine-guitton.fr/?page_id=356