YCN representative - France

Romain Trihan

YCN representative for the French Ceramic Society

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Research for Ceramics (IRCER, Limoges)

romain.trihan@unilim.fr 

My journey on ceramics began at the National Engineering College for Industrial Ceramics (ENSCI), where I studied ceramics, glass science, biomaterials and materials sciences. I had the chance to attend the 13th edition of the ECerS conference, organized back then in Limoges at the Institute of Research for Ceramics (IRCER).  The engineering college gave me the opportunity to study ceramics abroad at the prestigious Alfred University in the United States for one semester and also to work on fused deposition modeling (FDM) of glass during an internship within Philips Lighting in the Netherlands.

Few years after, I performed a PhD thesis in collaboration with an industrial partner developing medical sensors. My PhD topic focused on the diagnosis and therapy of cancers using functionalized mesoporous silica, deposited onto optical fibers using inkjet-printing (IJP). During that period, I had the chance to work also as a teacher at the Limoges University Institute of Technologies (IUT) for 2 years. It was also an opportunity to attend the 15th edition of the ECerS conference, held in Budapest in 2017.

After the PhD, my 1st postdoctoral position was in collaboration with the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), working on 3D printing of YAG to produce turbine blades, using robocasting.

In between 2020 and 2022, my 2nd postdoctoral position focused on the development of a new sensing probe for the detection of pollutants. It was a European project called “NewILUMIS” and involving the IRCER laboratory, along with IKTS Fraunhofer, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), IMIF/Łukasiewicz (Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics) and Teknosystem company. I had the task to produce silica and metallic (gold or silver) nanoparticles to achieve homogeneous coatings onto the partners’ substrates. Results were presented at the ECerS conference in Krakow in 2022.

My 3rd postdoctoral position (current position) is a joint research project in between IRCER laboratory and the Center for Technology Transfer in Ceramics (CTTC, Limoges), to produce glass coatings with direct ink writing technique (DIW) and glasses with other additive manufacturing techniques (VAT polymerization). It was an opportunity to participate as a volunteer at the ECerS conference organized in Lyon in 2023, where I met nice research fellows, along with YCN committee members and representatives. I got lucky to meet some of them again when attending the young Ceramists Additive Manufacturing (yCAM) forum in Austria.

As the French representative of the YCN, I hope to expand the network of young scientists working in the ceramic field and bring them closer together. Thus, if you require any further information or if you wish to share relevant news (PhD or postdoctoral positions available, seminars or conferences, etc.), please feel free to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you.

Dr.-Ing. Romain TRIHAN

romain.trihan@unilim.fr 

Institute of Research for Ceramics (IRCER) – UMR CNRS 7315
Centre Européen de la Céramique – 12 rue Atlantis
87068 Limoges - FRANCE

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