IMPACT Chair

Innovative Materials and Processes Accelerated through Computing Technologies

A chair in charge of developping a training-research program of excellence on the accelerated discovery of Materials

Created under the joint impulse of CEA cross-cutting program on Materials and Processes and INSTN, the IMPACT Chair (Innovative Materials and Processes Accelerated through Computing Technologies) is a training-research program dedicated to accelerate the convergence between Materials science and technologies on the one hand and Data science on the other hand.

The objective, in line with the PEPR DIADEM, the great national program led by CEA and CNRS, aims to promote the acceleration of the discovery of new materials and to promote the necessary transformation of the way to do Materials science research pairing it with the Data science ecosystem.

Thus, several types of trainings are offered :

Training by research, via Doctoral thesis and postdocs financed by the CEA cross-cutting program on Materials and Processes or by national programs
Through life trainings organised by INSTN via dedicated sessions
Initial trainings as part of Master courses and internships

The Accelerated discovery of Materials is at the meeting point between :

The conception of new High performance Materials in the context of sustainability
The development of emerging 1D, 2D, 3D and 4D systhesis processes
Data science technologies, especially Artificial Intelligence

define the perimeter of training-research activities of the IMPACT chair which is looking forward to develop interactions between theses three components. In particular, theses activities aggregate the development of processes digital twins, research of new functional materials and Materials-by-design

In this general scope, taking advantage of the unique ecosystem of Saclay plateau, theses trainings benefit from the access to some state-of-the-art infrastructure, like PEPR acceleration platforms. Theses installations target both emerging processes (thin films, nanomaterials, additive manufacturing), high throughput characterizations (SAXS, SOLEIL Synchrotron, Corrosion, …) and digital tools (numerical simulations and AI). All theses trainings are open to international participants.