Main research topics
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- Corrosion mechanisms (mainly of carbon steel and low alloy steel) in natural environments: marine corrosion (e.g. seaport structures, marine renewable energy devices, etc.), corrosion of buried steel pipelines, corrosion in nuclear waste storage, etc.
- Biocorrosion and more generally role of micro-organisms, associated species and organic matter.
- Cathodic protection, and more specifically understanding of the processes occurring under cathodic polarization (cathodic zones of a metal, defects in a sacrificial coating, etc.)
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Main research achievements
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- More than 150 published research articles, including 37 papers in Corrosion Science, 14 in Electrochimica Acta and 9 book chapters.
- h-index = 41, ca 4800 citations
- Currently the chair of the “Marine Corrosion” working party of the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC).
- Director of LEMMA laboratory (2004-2007) and assistant director of the Faculty of Science and Technology (2003-2007) of the University of La Rochelle.
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