François Bignonnet
Visiting professor
Growing up is great: you see farther
– 7 year old kid
Research profile
François Bignonnet is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of Polytech Nantes at Nantes Université and carries his reasearch at the Institut de Recherche en Génie Civil et Mécanique, GeM, UMR 6183, CNRS. He is involved in research and teaching activities related to mechanics of materials and structures. François's research activities concentrate on the modeling of heterogeneous and porous materials with random microstructure, using numerical and analytical multiscale methods for poromechanical and transport properties.
Academic profile
François earned his Ph.D. degree at Université Paris Est in Paris in 2014 under the joint supervision of Luc Dormieux and Frédéric Skoczylas. The focus of his thesis, “Micromechanical modeling and experimental characterization of the permeability and strength of clay-rich rocks” was on modeling random heterogeneous materials with mean field and full field homogenization, using Fourier based computational micromechanics or analytical multiscale models, and on measuring the permeability of ultra-low permeability caprocks for gas storage.François became an Associate Professor at Nantes Université in 2015. From February 2025 to August 2025 he joined as a visiting professor the Open Mechanics group at the Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, where he is investigating Fourier accelerated computational micromechanics methods for heterogeneous materials.