Patrice Turchi

Patrice Turchi, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory President (2015) of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), received a Diploma of Engineer in Chemistry from the National Superior School of Chemistry of Paris (ENSCP) in 1975, earned a Thèse de Docteur Ingénieur in Materials Science in 1980 and a Thèse d’Etat in Condensed Matter Physics in 1984, both from the University of Paris VI. He taught at the University of Paris VI for 11 years, spent a sabbatical year at U.C. Berkeley, and since 1986 has been at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he is the Advanced Metallurgical Science and Engineering group leader in the Materials Science Division of the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate. His scientific fields of interest span from theoretical condensed matter physics to quantum information science and computational materials science. His research has focused on electronic structure-based approaches to statics, kinetics, and dynamics of alloy phase transformations. In this century his main focus has been on the basic science of actinide and rare earth based materials, alloys for fusion energy, and rapid solidification. He has authored over 290 publications, including more than 50 LLNL technical reports, 3 book chapters, and over 160 presentations and 170 invited talks (including keynote addresses) at scientific meetings and research institutions. He has also edited 21 technical books and proceedings, and has 2 U.S. patents. He had several awards, from DOE, NATO, STLE, and LLNL. He is the co-founder of the International Alloy Conference (IAC) dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the properties of complex inorganic solids, and organized 18 symposia, 6 international conferences, 2 NATO-ASI and 1 NATO-ARW.

Education

• Thèse d'Etat es Sciences Physiques University Paris VI, Paris (France) (1981 — 1984)
• Thèse de Docteur Ingénieur University Paris VI, Paris (France) (1976 — 1981)
• Diplome d'Ingénieur (BS) Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP) (1972 — 1975)
• Diploma of Engineer in Chemistry Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP), Paris (France) (1972 — 1975)

Companies

• Senior Scientist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2015 — 2018)
• Group Leader, Advanced Metallurgical Science and Engineering Group Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2007 — 2015)
• Staff Physicist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1989 — 2007)
• Senior Visiting Scientist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1986 — 1989)
• Professor University Paris VI, Paris (France) (1975 — 1986)
• Visiting Research Scientist Univeristy of California at Berkeley (1985 — 1986)

Skills

The most important

• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Electrochemistry
• Surface Chemistry

Other

Optics, Experimental Physics, Matlab, Mathematica, Fortran, Thin Films, Physical Chemistry, Nuclear Materials Science, Alloys, Scanning Electron Microscopy, TEM, Actinide Science, Numerical Analysis, Computational Physics, Powder X-ray Diffraction, Quantum Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics, Mathematical Modeling, Scientific Computing, Experimentation, Nanomaterials, Materials, Metallurgy, Characterization, Nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, R&D, Solid State Physics, Simulations, Science, Spectroscopy, Physics, Thermodynamics, Materials Science