Valerie Demange

Short Bio:

Valérie Demange (42 ans, CNRS Researcher CR1 at Institut des Sciences Chmiques de Rennes (ISCR)). After studies of Materials Sciences in Nancy, she obtained a PhD thesis on quasicrystals and approximants alloys and thin films in 2001 in LSG2M laboratory, in the group of J.M. Dubois. This research was awarded by the “best PhD price” of the INPL (Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine). In 2001-2002, she got a post-doc positioning in the Ernst Ruska Center in Jülich (Germany) in the group of Prof. K. Urban, where she studied crystalline defects in approximants by TEM. In 2003, she finally got a full position of CNRS researcher in Nancy in LSGS laboratory where she worked on nitride and oxide thin films synthesis and characterizations, and was responsible of the SEM and TEM center. In 2008, she moved in Rennes in the group of Prof. M. Guilloux-Viry, where she started a new research field on niobate thin films that was supported by the ATIP founding of the Institute of Chemistry of CNRS. She also built ab initio the TEM plat-form of Rennes (THEMIS) that she head since 2014. She is a specialist of TEM, electron diffraction, EELS, EDS and 4-cercles x-ray diffraction and a have large panel of competences both in synthesis and characterization on several materials. She was partner of several ANR projects and she has a significant experience in building and conducting projects (3 CPER, 1 PPF, 6 other projects from 2004 to now). V. Demange co-authored more than 40 publications in international journals with peer-review process.