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Sebastian Volz
Laboratoire d’Energétique Moléculaire et Macroscopique, Combustion, UPR CNRS 288
Grande Voie des Vignes, Châtenay Malabru 92295
Tel : +33 1 4113 1070
volz at em2c.ecp.fr
Titles
Research Director of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Head of the International Network of the CNRS (GDRi) Nanoscale/Thermal
Head of the Thermal Nanosciences Group at Ecole Centrale Paris
Teaching at Ecole Centrale Paris
Books in Topics in Applied Physics, Springer
Thermal Nanosystems and Nanomaterials, S. Volz, 118, 2010
Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer, S. Volz, 107, 2007
Previous Activities
Research Director of the CNRS at IIS-University of Tokyo (2008-10)
Senior Researcher of the CNRS and
Head of the CNRS Research Network for Micro and Nanoscale Heat Transfer (2000-08)
Associate Professor at ENSMA (french Grande Ecole, 1998-2000)
Postdoc at UCLA, Mech. Eng. Dpt. (1997-98)
Cursus
Full Professor Thesis (2004) , Ph.D. ENSMA (1996)
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering ENSMA (1993)
Awards
Bronze Medaille of the CNRS, 2004
Best paper Award, International Conference on Thermoelectricity, 2009
Chair
Chairman of the Workshop Phonon Engineering, Barcelona, May 2010.
Chairman of the Spring School Thermal Nanosystems and Nanomaterials, May 2008.
Chairman of the Symposium Nanoscale Heat Transport –MRS 2007, April, San Francisco.
Chairman of the international workshop Nanoscale Energy Conversion, Nice Sep. 2006.
Chairman of the Winter School Micro and Nanoscale Heat Transfer, March 2004.
Recent publications
-C. Bera, N. Mingo, and S. Volz, Marked Effects of Alloying on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanoporous Materials, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 115502 (2010)
-E. Rousseau, A. Siria, G. Jourdan, S. Volz, F. Comin, J. Chevrier and J.-J. Greffet, ‘Radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale, Nature Photonics, 3, 514, (2009)
-M. Bozlar, D. He, J. Bai, Y. Chalopin, N. Mingo and S. Volz, Carbon Nanotube Microarchitectures for Enhanced Thermal Conduction at Ultralow Mass Fraction in Polymer Composites, Advanced Materials, 21, 1, (2009).
-R.S. Prasher, X.J. Hu, Y. Chalopin, N. Mingo, K. Lofgreen, S. Volz, F. Cleri, P. Keblinski , ‘Turning Carbon Nanotubes from Exceptional Heat Conductors into Insulators’, Physical Review Letters, 102, 105901 (2009)
-G. Domingues, S. Volz, K. Joulain and J.-J. Greffet, ‘Heat transfer between two nanoparticles through near-field interaction’, Physical Review Letters, 94, 085901 (2005).