CHAMPION Yannick

CNRS Researcher
1260 rue de la piscine, BP75 38330 Saint Martin D'Hères
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Teaching activities

UGA - UFR PhiTEM

Master 2 Nanosciences and nanotechnologies, specialty engineering of micro and nanostructures.

Teaching: metallic nanophases

Research activities

Structure and thermodynamics of complex metallic alloys.
High entropy alloys: interaction with hydrogen.
Metallic glasses: dynamic heterogeneities.
Nanofoams: OER/HER properties.

Recent publications

O.A. Pedroso, Y. Champion, W.J. Botta, G. Zepon, Johnson-Mehl-Avrami-Kolmogorov model applied to describe the site blocking effect in interstitial solid solution, Acta Mat. 271 (2024).

W.C. Batalha, A.M.J. Junior, M. Mantel, Y. Champion, V. Roche, The study of passive film's resistivity distribution to crystalline Fe-based pseudo high entropy alloys: The use of measurement model and Cole-Cole regression, Corrosion Science 230 (2024).

S. Iruela, F. Volpi, A. Antoni-Zdziobek, V. Jarry, Y. Champion, Trends in mechanical and electrical properties for hard-soft nano-phased metallic alloys, Mater. Today Com. 35 (2023).

Y. Champion, Entropy of metallic glasses and the size effect on glass transition, Comptes Rendus Physique 24 (2023).

G. Zepon, B.H. Silva, C. Zlotea, W.J. Botta, Y. Champion, Thermodynamic modelling of hydrogen-multicomponent alloy systems: Calculating pressure-composition-temperature diagrams, Acta Mat. 215 (2021) 12.

Activities / Resume

Since 2021 - Member of the CoCNRS committee Materials chemistry (formely number 15 now 17).

2016-2024 - Head of SIMaP

2008 - Research director CNRS at ICMPE, Thiais.

2002 - Habilitation (HDR) Sorbonne University (Pierre et Marie Curie), Paris.

2000 - Invited researcher at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK. French Fellow of the Churchill college.

1996 - Associate researcher CNRS, at Centre d'Etudes de Chimie Métallurgique, Vitry.

1995 - JSPS fellow at the Department of Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

1994 - PhD of Sorbonne University (Pierre et Marie Curie), Paris.

1990 - Master in Materials science of Sorbonne University and Engineer degre in chemistry of the ENSCP, Paris

Editor of Journal of alloys and compounds

Editorial adviser of the Techniques de l'ingénieur pubication