Thesis prize of the Union for Glass Science and Technology
Each year, the Union for Glass Science and Technology ( USTV) awards a thesis prize to a young researcher who has completed his or her doctoral thesis in a French doctoral school in one of the fields of glass science: fundamental or applied research work ranging from materials research (chemistry, physics, engineering sciences) to the sciences of the universe.
This year , the price was awarded to Claire Fourmentin. She studied at the ENSCR for 3 years where she specialized in material chemistry, and graduated with an engineering and master degree in 2019. Having always been fascinated by the interaction of light and matter, research in the field of glass for optics seemed to be an obvious choice. That's why she joined the glasses and ceramics team at the Rennes Institute of Chemical Sciences (ISCR) for her PhD supervised by Xiang-Hua Zhang and Laurent Calvez. During three year, she worked on the "Development of Gradient of Refractive INdex (GRIN) optics by ionic exchange for thermal application in the 8-12 um range". These studies led to the realization of the first moldable GRIN lenses in chalcogenide glasses by ionic exchange, with index difference up to the order of 10-1. Those kind of lenses are a solution to the SWaP-C problematic, which aim to facilitate and democratize the use of thermal camera by optimizing the size, weight, optical power and cost of these optical systems.
She would like to thanks the USTV committee and all the people who contributed to the success of the thesis.
Nomination as Distinguished Member of the Union for Glass Science and Technology
The distinction honors every year a scientist who has been particularly active in the field of glass.
Jean-Luc Adam, CNRS Scientist at the ISCR, has been nominated Distinguished Member of the Union for Glass Science and Technology (USTV) in recognition of his career devoted to glass science. The distinction was awarded during the annual joint meeting of USTV and Deutsche Glasstechnische Gesellschaft (USTV-DGG 2023), held in Orléans on May 22-24, 2023.
Jean-Luc Adam is a specialist in optical non-oxide glasses. In the last fifteen years, his work focused on rare-earth-doped fluoride and chalcogenide glasses for novel light sources, on chalcogenide glass ceramics for frequency conversion of light, on microstructured chalcogenide glass fibers, and on infrared optical fiber sensors for the detection of carbon dioxide. Recently, infrared fiber sensors have been implemented successfully for operando optical tracking of chemical reactions inside Li(Na)-ion batteries.
From 2009 to 2012, Jean-Luc Adam was appointed director of the CNRS-University of Arizona international laboratory on “Materials & Optics”, and then, director of ISCR until 2016. He was president of the scientific committee of GIS “Specialty Optical Fibers” (2005-2008), member of the scientific board of GDR “Verres” (2006-2017), and member of the board of directors of USTV (2010-2017). Since 2013, he has been member of the “Photonic glasses and optical fibers” technical committee of the International Commission on Glass.
Contacts
- Claire Fourmentin, Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR-CNRS UMR 6226, F-35000 Rennes, France
claire [dot] fourmentin
univ-rennes [dot] fr
- Jean-Luc Adam, Univ Rennes, CNRS, ISCR-CNRS UMR 6226, F-35000 Rennes, France
jean-luc [dot] adamuniv-rennes [dot] fr
Published May 23, 2023
