Dr. Julie Diani
PIMM- CNRS
Arts et Meteris ParisTech
151 bd de l'hopital
Paris
France
75013
Email:
julie.diani@paris.ensam.fr
Biographical Sketch: Julie Diani is a CNRS senior researcher in Materials Science and Engineering at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France. Her work focuses on experimental characterization and modelling of the mechanical behaviour of polymers and more specifically of filled and unfilled rubbers, polymer networks and shape memory polymers. She has contributed to original constitutive equations for hyperelastic and viscohyperelastic materials, the definition of a mechanical criterion and physical understanding of the Mullins softening in filled rubbers, the modelling of the shape memory property of amorphous polymer networks based on their intrinsic time-temperature superposition and viscoelastic properties. Her technical expertise covers continuum mechanics modelling, micromechanics and molecular dynamics.
Dr. Diani received her B.S in Applied Mathematics and her S.M. Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris, France). She earned her Ph.D degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France), with a doctoral dissertation research entitled: A study on the elastic behaviour and damage of rubberlike materials. She joined the CNRS in 2000. She was appointed by the CNRS and spent more than two years (2004-2006) as a visiting researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
She has published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications, 1 patent, and her publications received over 1000 citations. She gives lectures on mechanical modelling of rubber, viscoelastic properties of polymer networks, and microstructure induced properties in polymers for science masters in Paris.
Papers:
Sparks-Thomas Award - Recent Progresses in Physical Understanding, Mechanical Characterization and Modeling of the Mullins Softening in Carbon-Black Filled Rubbers