We are pleased to announce that Dr. Cyril Cayron has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Alloys and Compounds” of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). His term started in April 2021.

Cyril Cayron graduated in 1995 from "Mines de Nancy" an Engineering School in France and received his PhD in 2000 at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) in the Interdepartmental Centre for Electron Micorscopy. He has worked for 14 years at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives CEA (Grenoble, France) as an electron microscopist and metallurgist on industrial projects for nuclear plants, aerospace, microelectronics, photovoltaics and lithium batteries. Since 2014, Cyril Cayron has been working as senior scientist at EPFL (Neuchatel, Switzerland) in the laboratory of thermomechanical metallurgy (LMTM). He is interested in metallurgy, crystallography, phase transformation, martensite, twinning, TEM, EBSD, TKD. He had also to do mathematics in order to explain the experimental results, and more particularly on group theory, groupoids, lattice reduction, number theory, and optimization methods. He is the creator of ARPGE, a computer program written in Python that reconstructs the prior parent grains from EBSD data by using the groupoid composition tables. ARPGE was the first program to be able to reconstruct the austenitic grains in fully martensitic steels.

The editorial team warmly welcomes Dr. Cyril Cayron as the Editor-in-Chief of “Alloys and Compounds” and looks forward to his contribution to the continued success of Crystals.

Name: Dr. Cyril Cayron
Affiliation: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cyril-Cayron
E-mail: cyril.cayron@epfl.ch

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