We are pleased to announce the PhD defense of Fructueux J. Sohounme, entitled:
“Experimental and numerical study of the chemo-mechanical behaviour of a cementitious material subjected to millennial degradation, with application to Roman hydraulic cements”
The defense will take place on Wednesday 4 November 2026 at 2 p.m. at the École des Mines de Paris, room L109, 60 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris.
This doctoral project, entitled RoC (Roman Concrete), was carried out within the LETIS research unit of the French Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ASNR), in collaboration with Université Paris-Saclay (doctoral school no. 571: 2MIB), the Centre de Géosciences of Mines Paris–PSL, and UMR 8546 CNRS-ENS-EPHE (PSL), under the supervision of Alexandre Dauzères, with guidance from Mejdi Neji, Nicolas Seigneur, Katia Schörle and Arnaud Coutelas.
The defense will be held before a jury composed of:
Christophe Tournassat (Professor, University of Orléans, France), examiner
Barbara Lothenbach (Professor, EMPA, Switzerland), reviewer and examiner
Alain Sellier (Professor, University of Toulouse, France), reviewer and examiner
Céline Cau Dit Coumes (Research Director, CEA Marcoule, France), examiner
Simone Dilaria (Dr, University of Padua, Italy), guest