The Team

Principal Investigator

Vignesh Kannan

Assistant Professor of Mechanics, Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LMS)
Ecole Polytechnique, Insitut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France

Ph.D., M.S.E., Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.
B. Tech., National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India

vignesh.kannan@polytechnique.edu +33 (0) 1 69 33 57 44
Pole Mecanique (Building 104), Office - 104.20.65
Avenue Becquerel, 91120 Palaiseau, France


PhD students

Mathieu Brodmann (ETH Zurich, co-advised with Prof. Dennis M. Kochmann)

Research: In-situ measurement of domain wall kinetics in ferroelectric crystals

B.S., ETH Zurich, Switzerland
M.S., ETH Zurich, Switzerland

mathieubr@ethz.ch +41 44 632 63 76

Mechanics & Materials Lab, CLA J31
Tannenstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich


Sameh Ammari

Research: Dynamic behavior of shape memory alloys

B.S., Ecole Polytechnique, France
M.S., Ecole Polytechnique, France

sameh.ammari@polytechnique.edu

Pole Mecanique (Building 104), Office - 104.20.216
Avenue Becquerel, 91120 Palaiseau


Post-doctoral scientists

Engineering staff

Hakim Gharbi

(Engineer at the Laboratoire de Mecanique des Solides)

Research: Development of experimental devices for mechanics research

M.S., Sensor and Measurement Techniques, ESPCI/Paris VI, France

hakim.gharbi@polytechnique.edu +41 44 632 63 76

Pole Mecanique (Building 104), Office - 104.20.151
Avenue Becquerel, 91120 Palaiseau, France


We also receive fabulous support from our engineering team at the LMS. If you are interested in interacting with them, or finding out about the great work they do, you will find them at our LMS website.

Masters students

Undergraduate students

Alumni

  • Tamar Tsikarishvili (B.S. 2025) – (currently) Nordic masters program in Maritime Engineering
  • Joao Moreira Lopes (masters M1 2025) – (currently) M2 masters student at ENSTA Palaiseau
  • Sameh Ammari (M.S. 2025) – (currently) back to our group as its first PhD student :)


Collaborators