Dr Sébastien Rouquette PhD

Sébastien Rouquette is currently Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Institute of Technology of Nimes (University of Montpellier 2, France) since Sept. 2008. He is a permanent staff of the Welding Group within the Laboratory of Mechanics and Civil Engineering (http://www.lmgc.univ-montp2.fr/ecrire/AS/eqas_en.html). He also teaches courses and practical in the field of arc welding to undergraduate students. He graduated from the University of Toulouse 3 (France) where he got a BSc in Fluid and Solid Mechanics in 1997 and an MSc in Heat and Mass Transfers in 2000. He then completed a PhD in Applied Sciences in 2003 at the University of Perpignan (France). His PhD research focused on inverse heat transfer problems applied to the study of a Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition Process. He worked as Post-doctorate researcher at the University of Lorient (France) from Sept. 2003 to Aug. 2004, then at the University of Technology of Troyes (France) from Sept. 2004 to Aug. 2006. He was recruited as Associate Researcher at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK) from Sept. 2006 to Feb. 2008 and as Research fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK) from March 2008 to Aug. 2008. His current research focuses on the mechanisms involved in GTAW weld pool formation, solidification and final metallurgy and as a consequence the weld joint final quality. His research field is mainly based on manufacturing processes that involve high temperature processing such as foundry, welding, quenching … and which are strongly multiphysics (from an experimental and finite element analysis point of view).

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