Biography
Prof. Abdou Djouadi
Prof. Abdou Djouadi
University of Nantes, France
Biography: 

Abdou Djouadi is Professor of University of Nantes since 2002, he is doing his research in Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel of Nantes. 

He received his PhD in 1993 from University Paris XI (IEF). He worked eight years in ENSAM School of Engineer on the development of oxides and nitrides coatings and obtained his habilitation (HDR) in 2001 from University of Nancy. 

His current research interests include thin films and nanotubes synthesis by different plasma methods( DC and HiPIMS, PECVD, …). He is mainly interested by the development and use of new plasma processes and their application for thin films and nano-objects in micro and optoelectronic.

 A. Djouadi has authored or co-authored more than 120 international peer review publications and up to 150 communications in international conferences. Since 1990, Prof. A. Djouadi has intensively studied aluminium and boron nitride thin films by several plasma methods which he also used for the synthesis of nanocompounds, nanotubes or nanofibers. Professeur Djouadi and colleagues successfully synthesized well crystallised AlN films and even epitaxial AlN films on AlGaN and epitaxial ZnO layer on AlN. Moreover, thanks to in situ diagnostics (OES, Mass spectrometry, …) they succeeded to synthesize such a difficult materials using HiPIMS. 

Moreover Prof. Djouadi worked during the last ten years on thermal management of electronic devices. In this frame they developed several thin films wih very ggod thermal conductivity (up to 250 W/K.m) and also sensors based on thin films and integrate them in real HEMT transistors and QCL Lasers. 

These researches were also in close connexion with industrial problems and in this frame Prof. Djouadi leaded several industrial contracts (BatsCap, ALCATELTHALES, MHS, Béliers Associés, GLADU, Platit, PSA, …). He leaded three European projects as CRAFT HOBS and KNIWOOD in connection with SME’s and TEMPUS MEDA program which was more academic. He is also a scientific responsible for Nantes University for the European project TIPS (2015-2018) 

He was the coordinator of ANR HIPPOPP project (2008-2010), ANR PNano NanothermIC (2010-2012), ANR CREATIVEPI (2011-2012) and the scientific responsible for ANR Fichtre (2014-2017) and ANR SALSA (2015-2018). 

Prof. A. Djouadi was also the French representative of European COST Action MP0804 involving up to 40 countries in the field of HiPIMS technique. He was in charge of the Workgroup V, HiPIMS deposition in reactive mode.