Manoj DUCHER
Graduate teaching assistant
September 2014 - Present
University Pierre and Marie Curie, Physics Department, Paris, France
In charge of tutorials and practicals
Teaching hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, classical mechanics.
• UE 1P001 Concepts et méthodes en Physique
• UE 1P004 Physique du Mouvement
• UE 1P005 Énergie et entropie
Research projects
PhD thesis
September 2014 - Present
Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Paris, France
Equilibrium zinc isotope fractionation from first-principles calculations.
Master thesis
January 2014 - September 2014
Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Paris, France
Study of the local environment of aluminium in iron oxyhydroxides.
Master 1 research internship
April 2012 - June 2012
Material theory group, Uppsala University, Ångstrom Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden
Gas-perfluorocarbon interaction in the light of numerical simulations and DFT calculations.
Other research internship
July 2011 et January 2012
Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), Paris, France
Directionnal solidification of a ternary metallic alloy.
Effects of laser spot micromanipulations on a binary eutectic alloy.
Studies abroad
January - June 2013
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Erasmus, MSc. Physics, International Master program NANOMAT
Received Swedish Master degree
Studies at home university
September 2014 - Present
University Pierre and Marie Curie - Sorbonne Universites, Paris, France
PhD, Materials Physics and Chemistry
Defence planned end September 2017
September 2012 - June 2014
University Pierre and Marie Curie - Sorbonne Universites, Paris, France
MSc. Physics, International Master program NANOMAT
Received French Master degree
September 2009 - June 2012
University Pierre and Marie Curie - Sorbonne Universites, Paris, France
BSc. Physics
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts.
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Equilibrium zinc isotope fractionation in Zn-bearing minerals using first-principles calculations, Chemical Geology, 443, 87-96 (2016)
Probing the local environment of substitutional Al3+ in goethite using X-ray absorption spectroscopy and first-principles calculations, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 43, 217-227 (2016)
Scientific communications
Equilibrium zinc isotope fractionation from first-principles calculations. Journée isotopie et environnement à l'UPMC, Paris (France), 11 juin 2016.
Poster presentation
The local environment of substitutional Al3+ in goethite probed by XANES and first-principles calculations. Soleil Users's meeting, 22 - 23 janvier 2015.
Oral and poster presentation
Probing the 3d states of Fe in goethite using Al K-edge XANES spectroscopy. 16th international conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS-16), Karlsruhe (Allemagne), 23-28 août 2015