-Full name: Zaoui Ali
-Birthday: 13/08/1965.
-Family status: Maried, 3 kids.
-Citizenship: French
Career History
Ali Zaoui is a professor of Universities (Polytech'Lille / University of Lille1) since February
2005. He was promoted to the first class of professors on September 2009; then to the
exceptional class of professors (equivalent to distinguished professor). He received his PhD
from the University of Metz in June 1999. In September 1999 he was employed as a research
associate at the INFM (National Institute of Matter Physics), Italy. He then had another offer
to the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany where he remained until his appointment
to Lille1. His research has been mainly dedicated to the modelling and simulation methods
based on ab initio, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo. They cover a wide range of
systems including semiconductors, metals, ceramics, energetic materials, peroskites,
geomaterials (rocks, clays, ..) and nanocomposites. The area of applications is related to
several properties such as high pressure, temperature, magnetism, surfaces, interfaces,
diffusion, phonons, band structure, alloys,…
 Honors
Since October 2010: Scientific excellence award (PES) of the first level (type A: top).
Since October 2006: Premium doctoral supervision (PEDR).
Bonus quality research of emerging project, selected in January 2011 at the University of
Lille 1.
Scientific activities
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More than 145 publications in international journals.
50 invited talks.
H-index = 22 (ISIweb of Sciences).
16 PhD students. More than 15 Master students.
Member in 42 committee of PhD and habilitation mainly in France (20 times including 3
times chairman), Sueden (6 times, including opponent), China (two times as chairman),
Libanon (once) and in Algeria (13 times).
 Organisor and/or member of scientific committee for 13 international conferences.
 Reviewer for: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America (PNAS); High pressure research; Journal of Applied Physics; Semicond. Sci.
Technol; Chemistry of Materials; International Journal of Hydrogen Energy; Applied
Physics Letters; Solid State Communications, Computational Materials Sciences; Acta
Materiala; Physics Letters A; Infrared Physics and Technology; Materials Letters; Journal
of Materials Research; Physica B : condensed Matter; Physica Status Solidi (b); Journal
of Physics: Condensed Matter; European Journal of Applied Physics; European Physical
Society, ChemPhysChem, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, Solid State
ionics, Pholisophical Magazine Letters,, Journal of Alloys and Compouds, Journal of
Physical Chemistry….
 Editorial board:
2009 : Editor of :International Journal of Nanoelectronics and Materials
2010: Editor of: IRSN Condensed Matter Physics
2013: Editor of: Journal of Computational Materials Science.
 Research responsibilities:
Since 2010 until now: Group leader of geomaterial team in the new laboratory of civil
engineering and geo- environment (LGCgE). Group leader of Numerical modeling of coupled
multiscale problems.
2010: Elected Member of the council laboratory in LGCgE.
2010: Board member bureau of the doctoral school (école doctorale): field of sciences for
engineering.
- Other information:
Regular associated member of the International center for theoretical physics (UNESCO),
Trieste
(Italy) during 8 years (from January 1997 to December 2004).
 Other committes :
- Committee member for recruitment at Ecole des Mines de Douai (2010 and 2011).
-Committee member for recruitment professors at the University of Artois (2011).
-Committe member at the competition of high schools (TIPE) in Paris during the month of
June 2010.
-Since 2005-until now: committe member for recruiting of new engineers at Polytech'Lille.
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International activity :
-From 7 November to 19 November 2011 : guest professor under the PREFALC program in
nanotechnology between Latin America and France (12h of lecture for master and PhD
students. Caracas (Venezuella).
-During April 2013: guest professor for committe exam of master student at Royal Academy
of Sciences (KTH), Stockholm (Sweden).
-Since 2010 : responsible of the recruitment of bachelor chinese students: Universities of Tongji
(Shanghai), Hohai (Nanjing) and Harbin.
 Management:
2007-2009: Elected member of the 60th section Committee of specialists from the
University of Science and Technology of Lille (USTL).
Since 2009: Member of recruitment committee in USTL for the 60th section.
Since 2009: Member of the research committee in Polytech’Lille.
 Recent funding
 Four Grants from the National agency of radioactive waste (ANDRA): Three are
achieved, and one in progress.
 Grant of expertise from “Ecole des Mines de Douai” (ARMINES).