Aurélien Merkel

Researcher in acoustics

News

Recent publications

06/12/2021: Our works on Nonreciprocal Janus acoustic metasurface has been published in Nature Communications [doi].
10/11/2021: Our works on nonreciprocal thermoacoustic Willis materials has been published in Physical Review B [doi].
18/06/2021: Our works on the design of acoustic absorbing structure using deep learning has been published in Smart Materials and Structures [doi].
14/05/2021: Our works on the analytical modeling of acoustic Willis materials has been published in New Journal of Physics [doi].
08/04/2021: Our works on the hiding zone in density-near-zero acoustic metamaterials has been published in Journal of Applied Europhysics [doi].
11/02/2021: Our works on nonlocal acoustic metasurface has been published in Physical Review B [doi].


About me

I am an associate professor in acoustics and metamaterials. My research interests are the wave propagation in granular media, the acoustic nonlinearity and nonreciprocity, and acoustic metamaterials.

From september 2019: associate professor at the Université de Lorraine and the Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy, France.

Previous positions

From february 2017 to august 2019: postdoctoral fellow in the Phonometa group of Johan Christensen, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
From november 2013 to august 2016: postdoctoral fellow at the LAUM, Université du Mans, Le Mans, France.
From april 2013 to october 2016: postdoctoral fellow in the Multi Scale Mechanics of Pr. Stefan Luding, Universiteit Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.
From september 2011 to may 2012: postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
From september 2010 to august 2011: teaching and research assistant at the LAUM, Université du Mans, Le Mans, France.

PhD thesis

Theoretical and experimental study of acoustic wave propagation within three-dimensional granular phononic crystals.
Supervisors: Vincent Tournat and Vitalyi Gusev.
Defended on the 14 of december 2010 at the Université du Mans, France.