Gérard DELETTE
Senior Expert, New Materials Technologies Division, CEA-Liten
New challenges for the manufacturing of permanent magnets
✦ Thursday December, 1st – 16:45
Gerard Delette graduated from the Ecole Centrale Lyon in 1991 in Materials Sciences. He worked at the Nuclear Energy Directorate of CEA for 8 years as a research engineer and studied the irradiation effects on nuclear fuel elements. He works mainly on the physical modelling and numerical simulation of the structural evolutions in materials driven by the fission products. He joined the CEA-Tech in 2001 and was responsible for the manufacturing of thoria-based devices for safety programs and developed a simulation tool for the optimization of mixed oxide fuel pellets. After 2005, he worked for 5 years in the field of Solid Oxide Cells and developed design tools and physical models to understand the ageing effects in ceramic cells. Since 2011, he contributes to the development of research activities on magnetic materials, permanent magnets and soft magnetics for power electronics. This work is concretized by the emergence of a pilot line and technological transfers.