Prof Yves Brechet, member of the French Academy of Sciences, visited Monash University for a few weeks as part of a growing international collaboration with Prof Chris Hutchinson. Yves’ research interests span the fields of physical metallurgy, thermodynamics, microstructures, phase transformations, plasticity, fracture micromechanics, material selection, structural materials design, biointerfaces, structural biomimetics. In his recent visit to Australia, Yves also spent a day at Deakin Waurn Ponds discussing the research projects with mineAlloy students and researchers.
