Eric Collet#
| Membership Number: | 6720 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://ipr.univ-rennes1.fr/interlocuteurs/eric-collet |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0810-7411 |
| Twitter: | @rx_collet |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/Pr.eric.collet |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-collet-282656110/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Present Exceptional Class Professor at University of Rennes (Distinguished Professor)
- 2021 - 2026 Head of the Department Materials and Light at the IPR laboratory
- 2022 - 2026 Director (with Prof. S. Ohkoshi) of the International Research Laboratory IRL 2015 DYNACOM "Dynamical Control of Materials", funded by CNRS, Univ. Rennes and the University of Tokyo
- 2022 - 2027 Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France
- 2017 - 2022 Deputy Scientific Director of the Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR, 170 staff)
- 2017 - 2022 Director (with S. Ohkoshi) of the International laboratory LIA IM-LED France-Japan
- 2008 - 2013 Junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France
- 2007 Full Professor at Rennes 1 University
- 2001 - 2007 Associate Professor at Rennes 1 University
- 1999 - 2001 Post-Doctoral fellowship Laboratoire Léon-Brillouin, CEA, Saclay, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Symmetry breaking
- Time-resolved X-ray diffraction and absorption
- Functional materials
- Coupled electronic instability and symmetry breaking
- Synchrotron radiation, X-Ray free electron laser (X-FEL)
- Phase transitions and critical phenomena
- Electronic properties and materials
- Ultra-fast photoinduced phase transitions
- Spin cross-over, charge transfer, photoswitchability
- Out-of-equilibrium dynamics
Honours and Awards
- 2022 - 2027 Senior Chair of Institut Universitaire de France
- 2022 Alajos Kálmán Prize of the European Crystallographic Association
- 2020 C.N.R.S. Silver Medal for the originality, quality and importance of the researchers' work.
- 2017 Louis Ancel prize, condensed matter prize of the French Physical Society, for "ground-breaking achievements in condensed matter physics".
- 2008 - 2013 Junior Chair of Institut Universitaire de France.
- 2004 - 2026 Award for Scientific Excellence (Prime d’Excellence Scientifique)
- 2009 Medal from Ville de Rennes
