Roland Logé

Roland Logé is an associate professor at EPFL, Switzerland, with a primary affiliation to the Materials Institute, and a secondary affiliation to the Microengineering Institute. He is the head of the Laboratory of Thermomechanical Metallurgy, and holder of the PX Group Chair.

Roland Logé graduated in 1994 at UCL, Belgium, in Materials Science Engineering. He earned a Master of Science in Mechanics in 1995, at UCSB Santa Barbara (USA), and received his PhD at Ecole des Mines de Paris – CEMEF (France) in 1999, where he specialized in metal forming and associated microstructure evolutions. After a postdoc at Cornell University (USA) between 1999 and 2001, he entered CNRS in France. He became CNRS Research Director in 2013, and in 2014 joined the Materials Institute of the School of Engineering at EPFL. He is active in the field of processing and manufacturing of metals and alloys in the solid state, focusing on the ability to tailor microstructures, and the associated material properties. Topics of interest include recrystallization, precipitation, grain growth, textures and grain boundary engineering, phase transformations, internal stresses and cracking phenomena, with applications to bulk metal forming and laser based additive manufacturing.

Roland Logé has been a member of the Editorial Board of Metals, of the Scientific Advisory Board of the SEAM laboratory of Excellence (France), of the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source Scientific Committee (PSI, Switzerland), of the French CNRS National committee, of SF2M and TMS.