“Composite materials hold tremendous promise for solving societal challenges in energy and mobility.”
Program Affiliations
Biography
Gilles Lubineau is a professor of mechanical engineering with the Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE) at KAUST. He is the director of ENERCOMP, a Technology Consortium for Composites in Energy Applications, and principal investigator of the Laboratory of Mechanics for Energy and Mobility, an integrated environment for composite engineering that he created in 2009 when joining KAUST. From 2020 to 2023, he served as Associate Dean for Faculty then Interim Dean of PSE. Lubineau’s research covers a wide range of expertise related to composite materials, with more than 200 published papers in journals ranging from materials science (Advanced Materials, Macromolecules, etc.) to composite engineering to theoretical mechanics (JMPS, CST, Scientific Reports) to applied mathematics (IJNME, CMAME, etc.). He maintains numerous professional affiliations; among them, he is the editor for Mechanics of Materials and a board member with various journals. Prior to KAUST, Lubineau was a faculty member at the École Normale Supérieure of Cachan, a non-resident Instructor at the École Polytechnique, France, and a visiting researcher at UC-Berkeley, USA.
Research Interests
Professor Lubineau’s research interests include: integrity at short and/or long-term of composite materials and structures; inverse problems for the identification of constitutive parameters; multi-scale coupling technique; and nano and/or multifunctional materials. His collaborations engage both industrial and academic partners. One area of study assesses the role of interfaces in structures where multiple materials and components are integrated (additive manufacturing, secondary bonding) to determine their performance, strength, degradation, energy efficiency, etc.; fiber-reinforced polymers are an example.
composite materials
mechanical testing
smart composites
composites in energy
computational modeling
Education Profile
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Paris VI University, 2002
- Postgraduate Degree, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, 2000
- "Agrégation," Theoretical Mechanics, 1999
- M.S., École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, 1998
Awards and Recognitions
Publications
Research Areas
- Mechanical Engineering