Patrick Cordier

Patrick Cordier is professor of Physics at the University of Lille and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Trained as a materials scientist he obtained his PhD at the University of Lille on the hydrolytic weakening of quartz.

He is particularly interested in the deformation mechanisms of minerals and rocks in planetary interiors. His preferred approaches are transmission electron microscopy, multiscale numerical modelling and various experimental techniques involving high pressures or nanomechanical testing. He is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and of the American Geophysical Union. He has been awarded the Dana medal of the Mineralogical Society of America.