Patrick Cordier

Patrick Cordier

French mineralogist (born 1961)

Patrick Cordier (born February 1, 1961) is a mineralogist who uses experimental and numerical approaches to study the plasticity of geological materials. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles in international scientific journals.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Patrick Cordier (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Feb 1, 1961.1

About

He received the Dana Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America in 2016, and is currently a chief editor of the European Journal of Mineralogy. and a member ofInstitut Universitaire de France.

From Wikipedia’s article on Patrick Cordier, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedÉcole polytechnique universitaire de Lille3
  • Date not recordedLille University of Science and Technology3

Cordier obtained a master's degree in materials science in 1985 from the School of Engineers of Lille (EUDIL), and a DEA from the University of Lille 1 in materials science. He completed a doctoral thesis on the plasticity of quartz, directed by Professor Jean-Claude Doukhan, at the University of Lille 1 in 1989.

From Wikipedia’s article on Patrick Cordier (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Career

Occupation: researcher, mineralogist.8

In 1989, Cordier worked as post-doctoral scientist with Professor Arthur Heuer (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case School of Engineering, Cleveland, USA). The same year, he joined the University of Lille 1 as an assistant professor. He passed his habilitation to lead scientific research in 1995 at Lille, and became an associate professor of physics in 1996. At the 'Unité Materiaux Transformations' research institute of the University of Lille, he led the research group for Mineral Physics from 1999 to 2017, and the research group for Plasticity from 2017 to 2020.

From Wikipedia’s article on Patrick Cordier (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Personal life

  • BornFeb 1, 1961, Paris9
  • CitizenshipFrance10

Awards