He will receive the medal at the annual SF2M days planned for the end of October. The Jean Rist medal , in the name of a famous metallurgist, is attributed every year to encourage young French or foreign metallurgists or specialists in the science of materials, who have distinguished themselves by their works – both scientific and applied – on materials.

He obtained his engineering diploma at the INPG (ENSEEG since called PHELMA) together with a DEA in Materials’ Science and Engineering in 2001. He then turned to research by doing a thesis at the Laboratory of Metallurgical Thermodynamics and Physical Chemistry (LTPCM) and at the Laboratory of Physical and Mechanical Engineering for Materials (GPM2) in 2004. This was followed by a post-doctorate course at the Laboratory of Materials and Procedures Engineering (IMAP) at the Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve in Belgium from 2004 to 2006. Damien Fabrègue has been a member of the Metals and Alloys team at the MATEIS laboratory since September 2006. His research work concerns the use of rapid thermo-mechanical cycles for elaborating and optimizing metal alloys for use in the automobile industry or biomedical applications (implants, stents). Up until present, he has published 25 articles in international revues. Parallel to his research activities, he also teaches Material Sciences to student engineers from the INSA Lyon (SGM and GMD) as well as to students at the Grenoble Polytechnic.