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Khalid Lamnawar

Khalid Lamnawar

Full Professor
Department of Material Engineering
National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon
France
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Khalid Lamnawar is a Full Professor in Rheology and Processing of Polymers at the University of Lyon, INSA Lyon, France. He obtained his HDR in 2019. He is actually head of Mechanical Engineering Plastics Processing through the apprenticeship engineers department. Prof. Khalid Lamnawar’s research is focused on some engineering aspects of multiphase systems by developing some multi-scale studies to link the rheology of polymers, processing technology, and properties of micro/nanostructured materials together. He is also a reviewer for internationally reputed scientific journals. He also provided some expertise for French Government and European Projects: ANR, ESR, ACS, Biomedicine Agency, and Ministry of Industry… He has secured more than [2 million] euros in competitive third-party funding from industry, and national and international granting agencies (Or ‘He is PI of several national and international projects…’ ). He has co-supervised and been the advisor for more than 40 Master's theses, 19 PhD of which 10 have already been defended. One of his PhD students (2010-2013) working on “Interfacial rheology of compatible multilayer structures” was awarded “The Best Doctoral Dissertation” by the French Rheology Group (GFR). He is the author of some of the invited & keynote lectures in the industry, universities, and international conferences. Recently, he was the Scientific and Technical Program Coordinator, Secretary, and Webmaster of PPS 2016. He is the Organizer and the general chair of YRD 2021 and the AERC 14-17 April 2025 to be held in Lyon. Since 2022, he is PI of France 2030 PEPR Recycling of Plastics.

Research Interest

Material Engineering.