Dr. Gilles Lubineau

ENERCOMP Director

​Professor Lubineau is the Director of ENERCOMP and Principal Investigator at Mechanics of Composites for Energy and Mobility Laboratory (MCEM), Mechanical Engineering Program, PSE Division, KAUST.

His expertise covers a wide range of fields related to composite materials. His research interests include integrity at short and/or long-term of composite materials and structures, inverse problems for the identification of constitutive parameters, multi-scale coupling technique, nano and/or multifunctional materials.

He has over 200 published papers in journals spanning from material science (Advanced Materials, Macromolecules, etc..) to theoretical mechanics (JMPS, CST, Scientific Reports) and applied maths (IJNME, CMAME, etc.)

Research Interests

Aging of Composite Structures, Computational Strategies, Damage Modeling, Coupling Strategies, Degradation of Composite Structures, Environmental Degradation, Mechanical Degradation

Scientific and Professional Membership

  • AMAC (French Association of Composite Material)

  • AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

  • ASME (American Society Mechanical Engineers)

  • CSMA (Computational Structural Mechanics Association)

Awards

  • "Daniel Valentin Award" 2004. The prize is awarded each year to one researcher under the age of 35 by the French Association for Composite Materials (AMAC) to recognize a global, innovative and promising research activity related to composite materials (http://www.amac-composites.org).

  • Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2020