Professor Joel Chevrier (64 years)
Full Professor of physics at Université Grenoble Alpes (1998 (38) -…)
2022-2024 : Presently Scientific Director of the UGA Design Factory for transitions . The Design Factory project is : Giving students the ability to imagine creative solutions and the confidence to undertake in a world of transitions.
UGA Design Factory coordinates and develops training programs in creativity, design, entrepreneurship and innovation through active, interdisciplinary teaching methods.
2018-2023 : After 2010, with the exponential growth of mobile devices and anticipated major changes in education, development an activity in pedagogical innovation based on the use of “ambiant numerical technologies”: Can a smartphone be a HomeLab ? This has led to creation of a new, original and highly interdisplicinary research lab TheMotionLab@CRI. Motion Lab motto is “We want to create a Sciences&Design alliance to explore The Moving Body at the Heart of Learning by Leveraging Digital Technologies, for the future of Education, Sports and Health.”
Sciences, Design, Arts:
· Scientific curator of the Soulages exhibition « Noir, c’est noir ? » EPFL Switzerland (2016-2017)
· Collaboration with sculptor Giuseppe Penone for Essere vento : sculpture on sand grain down the micrometer size. Exhibition Corps de Pierre 2017.
· Collaboration with choreographer Yoann Bourgeois for exhibition at Pantheon Paris 2017
· PI of ANR project (2014-2018): « Sciences, design and society: the factory of contemporary worlds »
· Member of Strategic Council at ENSCI Les Ateliers Paris (2017-2019). Top 1 design school in France.
· Member of the Board at Ecole Supérieure d’Arts et de Design Grenoble/Valence (2015-2023)
· Blog « un physicien au musée » https://www.echosciences-grenoble.fr/dossiers/un-physicien-au-musee
Career path
2011-2014 : Former deputy Education Vice-President of the University Joseph Fourier in charge of Scientific Culture and of University-Highschool partnership.
2007-2010 : Deputy Research Vice-President of the University Joseph Fourier, in charge of university research policy in Engineering, Physical Sciences, and Nanosciences.
Responsible of a Master Program in Nanotechnology and Nanosciences.
Courses on Nanophysics, Sensors and Actuators, Scanning Probe Microcopy.
1995-2015 : development a research activity in Nano-mechanics at the Institut Néel CNRS Grenoble in close collaboration with European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF Grenoble. Research in physics based on instrument developments in Scanning Probe Microscopy.
1994-… : Supervision of 20 PhD students.
Currently supervising 2 PhD students associated to Université Paris Cité. Marion Voillot defended her PhD december 2022, her supervision shared with Frederic Bevilacqua (IRCAM) and Guillian Graves (Big Bang Project). https://www.themotionlab.net
2018-2023 : Appointed part time Professor at CRI Paris (Université Paris Descartes) (9/2015-9/2021) and Research Fellow at CRI Paris
2015-2021 : Invited Professor at Lisbon University (Portugal)
2017-2020 : Invited Professor at Tsinghua University
Key dates
1983: Graduation at Grenoble Institut National Polytechnique France
1985: Doctor in physics Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble France
1986: University of Cambridge UK Postdoctoral researcher (1 year) Research associate at Darwin College
1987: Physicist at Institut Laue Langevin (2 years) European neutron facility for research. Neutron diffraction.
1988: Appointed Junior CNRS researcher Marseille
1993: « French national qualification as research supervisor » Diploma of Université de la Méditerranée Marseille (required to become Pr in french universities)
1994: Fellowship of A. von Humboldt foundation. One year at visiting researcher at KFA Jülich RFA Germany.
1998: appointed Professor Université Grenoble Alpes
1998-2015: Senior researcher at Néel Institute and scientific collaborator at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. In charge of a research group in Nanotechnology.
2009-2010: Sabbatical year: Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University: research in Nanomechanics (Pr. Raman) and use of Haptic devices in teaching science (Pr. Hong Tan)
2018-2023 Senior Researcher at Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI Paris). Part time Professor at Université Paris Descartes. Still Full Professor Université Grenoble Alpes.
Relevant scientific publications
1. Can a smartphone be a HomeLab? J Chevrier, L Madani, A Bsiesy, Full paper at Design Conference: LearnxDesign Chicago 2015
2. Imaging material properties of biological samples with a force feedback microscope, L Costa, MS Rodrigues, E Newman, C Zubieta, J Chevrier, F Comin, Journal of Molecular Recognition 26 (12), 689-693, 2013
3. Nanotechnology and nanoscale science: Educational challenges, MG Jones, R Blonder, GE Gardner, V Albe, M Falvo, and J Chevrier, International Journal of Science Education 35 (9), 1490-1512, 2013
4. Teaching classical mechanics using smartphones, J Chevrier, L Madani, A Bsiesy, The Physics Teacher 51 (6), 376-377, 2013
5. Nanoscale radiative heat flow due to surface plasmons in graphene and doped silicon, PJ Van Zwol, S Thiele, C Berger, WA De Heer, J Chevrier, Physical review letters 109 (26), 264301, 2012
6. Radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale, Rousseau, Siria, Jourdan, Volz, Comin, Chevrier, Greffet, Nature Photonics 3 (9), 514-517, 2009
7. Quantitative non-contact dynamic Casimir force measurements, G Jourdan, A Lambrecht, F Comin, J Chevrier, EPL (Europhysics Letters) 85 (3), 31001, 2009
Teaching, exploring, learning with students... 