Alain Portavoce

Alain Portavoce received his PhD in Materials Science in 2002. After working at the University of Virginia (Charlottesvile, USA) with Prof. Robert Hull and at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, USA) with Prof. Frances M. Ross, he was offered a permanent position by the French National Center of Scientific Research in 2005, for joining the Institute of Materials Microelectronics and Nanoscience of Provence (Marseille). His work mainly concerns nanometer scale solid state diffusion, segregation and reaction in materials involved in the fabrication of microelectronic devices. He coauthored 139 scientific publications.