Georges P. Martin

Georges P. Martin is a French physical metallurgist who served in various scientific leadership roles over many decades at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Martin spent the majority of his career at CEA Saclay and also time at CNRS Vitry, while also spending extended periods of time at academic institutions in Germany, Italy, and the United States.

Martin's research is mainly devoted to the basic science of nuclear materials and to solid-state diffusion and kinetics, based on experimental, theoretical, and computer-simulation activities. He introduced the novel concept of “Driven Alloy,” alloys maintained in dynamical states by external forcing, such as irradiation or sustained plastic shearing and of “dynamical-equilibrium phase diagrams”; together with his coworkers, he determined experimentally some of these, both under irradiation and ball-milling. Martin also developed the theory and simulation of Driven Alloys, with practical applications in nuclear metallurgy (irradiation driven phase-transformations), in materials processing (mechanical alloying), and in wear. As the head of the Physical Metallurgy Service at Saclay, he emphasized and promoted multiscale materials modeling, in particular for nuclear applications.

Martin has written and co-edited an array of books and published more than 200 peer reviewed articles. He has served in various industrial and academic scientific advisory committees, including scientific advisor for the Haut Commissaire à l’Énergie Atomique, scientific advisor for Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf, and an convener of several multi-annual joint research programs (“CPR”) between CNRS, industrial, and academic institutions.