Dr. Louise  
Le Barbenchon

Hi everyone! My name is Louise Le Barbenchon. I am a newly CNRS researcher at the I2M laboratory in Bordeaux, France. I come from Material Engineering but thanks to my PhD work on the mechanical behavior of cork-based materials, I fell in love with understanding how materials come to have such a huge range of mechanical properties.

My current research (for which I obtained my position at the CNRS) is focused on understanding why the mechanical behavior of architectured materials changes with the sollicitation speed. In parallel to a quite fundamental research approach, I wish to study biological systems like the pommelo that have evolved over millions of years to resist to impacts and crash.
Check out my research and publications page for more details, or my Google Scholar profile for all my papers.