Dr Hortense Le Ferrand

Hortense is Professor at the Schools of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She develops sustainable manufacturing of high performance materials.

Prof Hortense Le Ferrand joined the faculty of NTU in Singapore in 2019 with an Engineer degree from France and a Master and PhD degrees in Materials science from Switzerland. Hortense received a fellowship from National Research Foundation in Singapore in 2020 to develop bioinspired technology. She was MIT innovator under 35 in 2023 and received the Nature award, inspiring women in science, scientific contribution. Hortense is leadership team member of POWERS for the Promotion of Women in Engineering Research and Science at NTU, and of Women@NTU.

 

Selected publications

  • H. He, W. Peng, H. Le Ferrand, Thermal rectification in modularly designed bulk metamaterials. Advanced Materials (2024), 2307071.
  • E. Soh, J.H. Teoh, B. Leong, T. Xing, H. Le Ferrand, 3D printing of mycelium engineered living materials using a waste-based ink and non-sterile conditions. Materials & Design 236 (2023), 112481.
  • R. Behera, H. Le Ferrand, Impact resistant materials inspired by the mantis shrimp’s dactyl club, Matter 4 (2021), 2831-2849.
  • W. L. Chung, V. Chou, R.P. Behera, H. Le Ferrand, Magnetically assisted drop-on-demand 3D printing of microstructured multimaterial composites. Nature Communications 13 (2022), 5015.
  • H. He, W. Peng, J. Liu, X.Y. Chan, L. Liu, L. Lu, H. Le Ferrand, Microstructured BN composites with internally designed high thermal conductivity paths for 3D electronic packaging. Advanced Materials 34 (2022), 2205120.
  • H. Le Ferrand, M. Duchamp, D. Gabryelczyk, C. Hao, A. Miserez, Time-resolved observations of liquid-liquid phase separation at the nanoscale using in situ Liquid Transmission Electron Microscopy, Journal of the American Chemical Society17 (2019), 7202.
  • H. Le Ferrand, F. Bouville, T.P. Niebel, A.R. Studart, Magnetically assisted slip-casting of bio-inspired heterogeneous composites, Nature Materials 14 (2015), 1172.

Nanyang Technological University

Websites

Singapore
Role: 
Associate Professor
Department: 
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Languages: 
English
French
Academic disciplines: 
Materials Science and Engineering
Engineering & Technology
News topics: 
Materials
Technology