Elyes NEFZAOUI ESIEE Paris School of Engineering Dep. Sante Energie Environnement 2 Bld Blaise Pascal 93162, Noisy-Le-Grand, France Phone : +33 1 45 92 67 56 E-mail : elyes.nefzaoui [at] esiee.fr

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

I am an assistant professor at ESIEE Paris - University Paris Est in charge of the Energy Graduate Program of ESIEE Paris School of Engineering. I obtained my MSc. In Mechanical Engineering (French Grande Ecole ENSMA, France) in 2009 and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2013 (Univ. of Poitiers, France) with a dissertation on Nanoscale Thermal Physics. In 2013-2014, I served as a postdoctoral research assistant at CNRS Laboratories Institut P' (Poitiers) and the Center of Energy and Thermal Science of Lyon (CNRS - INSA Lyon - Univ. Claude Bernard). My research activities include energy conversion and management from the micro-scale (materials properties and micro-machined devices) to the macro-scale (buildings, districts and cities).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Energy conversion and management;
• Energy efficiency in Buildings, Load disaggregation, Demand Response;
• Smart autonomous sensors, Heat harvesting, Thermo-photovoltaic devices, Thermal meta-materials.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor September 2014 - today
Head of the energy graduate program
ESIEE Paris - Univ. Paris Est

• Energy efficiency in buildings and renewable energy;
• Smart sensors and energy conversion devices;
• Meta-materials for energy;

Postdoctoral research fellow 2013 - 2014
CNRS - Institut P' / Center for Energy and Thermal Science of Lyon

• Thermal rectification : towards the thermal diode for heat flow control and management;
• Thermal transport modeling and computation and the micro/nano scale;

Research and Teachning assistant 2009 - 2013
Institut Pprime
CNRS - Univ. Poitiers -ENSMA

• Thermal energy harvesting by thermo-photovoltaic (TPV) devices;
• Design and optimization of thermal meta-materials for thermal energy conversion and management ;

Research assistant April - September 2009
Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile

• Fluid - Granular porous media interation : the dynamics of a drop impact on a granular bed;

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
Univ. of Poitiers, Poitiers, FRANCE 2013
THESIS - Thermo-photovoltaic devices selective emitters design and optimization

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering
Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mecanique et d'Aerotechnique, Poitiers, FRANCE 2009

Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics and Physics
Institut Preparatoire aux Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques, Tunis, Tunisia 2006

TEACHING

• Applied thermodynamics;
• Photovoltaic solar energy;
• Buildings physics and energy efficiency;
• Buildings Energy Modeling (BEM);
• Experimental methods for energy efficiency and renewable energy;
• Energy harvesting for autonomous sensors;

ADVISORING

• Ph.D
  • 2018, F. J. Shaun, "Micromachined thermal flowrate sensors for a multiparametric lab-on-chip water sensor"
• M.Sc.
  • 2015, Arinaly Ralahy,"A new protocol for detailed energy and comfort auditing of non-residential buildings"
  • 2015, Soufiane Acoudad,"Energy audit methods for tertiary buildings for decentralized energy production potential assessment"
  • 2016, Hugo Regina,"Thermal optimization of micromachined resistive flowrate sensors"
  • 2017, Mathieu Bourdeau,"Instrumentation, Measurement and Analyis methods of power demand data of non-residential buildings"
  • 2017, Sreyash Sarkar,"Design and optimization of thermal micro-machined sensors"
  • 2017, Francesco Peressutti,"Dynamic behavior optimization of thermal flowrate sensors"
  • 2017, Mohamed-Amine Dahaoui,"Plasmonic surface gratings based thermal meta-materials design and optimization for thermal energy harvesting "

PUBLICATIONS

Author

1

Y. Allab, M. Pellegrino, X. Guo, E. Nefzaoui, and A. Kindinis.
Energy and comfort assessment in educational building: Case study in a french university campus.
Energy and Buildings, 143:202-219, 2017.
cited By 2.

2

E. Nefzaoui, K. Joulain, J. Drevillon, and Y. Ezzahri.
Radiative thermal rectification using superconducting materials.
Applied Physics Letters, 104(10), 2014.
cited By 19.

3

E. Nefzaoui, J. Drevillon, Y. Ezzahri, and K. Joulain.
Simple far-field radiative thermal rectifier using fabry-perot cavities based infrared selective emitters.
Applied Optics, (16):3479-3485, 2014.
cited By 9.

4

E. Nefzaoui, Y. Ezzahri, J. Drevillon, and K. Joulain.
Maximal near-field radiative heat transfer between two plates.
EPJ Applied Physics, 63(3):30902-p1-30902-p12, 2013.
cited By 5.

5

E. Nefzaoui and O. Skurtys.
Impact of a liquid drop on a granular medium: Inertia, viscosity and surface tension effects on the drop deformation.
Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 41:43-50, 2012.
cited By 23.

6

E. Nefzaoui, J. Drevillon, and K. Joulain.
Selective emitters design and optimization for thermophotovoltaic applications.
Journal of Applied Physics, 111(8), 2012.
cited By 15.

7

J. Drevillon, K. Joulain, P. Ben-Abdallah, and E. Nefzaoui.
Far field coherent thermal emission from a bilayer structure.
Journal of Applied Physics, 109(3), 2011.
cited By 17.

8

F. Shaun, E. Nefzaoui, H. Regina, W. Cesar, F. Marty, M. Capochichi-Gnambodoe, P. Poulichet, P. Basset, F. Peressuti, S. Sarkar, and T. Bourouina.
On the co-integration of a thermo-resistive flow-rate sensor in a multi-parameter sensing chip for water network monitoring.
In TRANSDUCERS 2017 - 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, pages 1069-1072, 2017.

9

I. Azzouz, P. Poulichet, M. Pirro, W. Tan, F. Marty, M. Capochichi-Gnambodoe, E. Nefzaoui, A. Boumechhour, W. Cesar, D. Angelescu, K. Bachari, and T. Bourouina.
Evaluation of Tenax thin films as adsorbent material in a micro-preconcentrator and its operation as a valve-less multiple injection system in micro-gas chromatography.
In TRANSDUCERS 2017 - 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, pages 1516-1519, 2017.

10

F. Shaun, H. Regina, F. Marty, E. Nefzaoui, T. Bourouina, and W. Cesar.
Design of micro-fabricated thermal flow-rate sensor for water network monitoring.
In Symposium on Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, DTIP 2017, 2017.

11

E. Nefzaoui and P-O. Chapuis.
Ballistic effects on thermal conductivity in 1d and 2d configurations from single and multiple localized sub mean free path heat sources: a numerical investigation.
In 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, United States, April 2017.

12

E. Nefzaoui and P.-O. Chapuis.
Ballistic effects on in-plane and cross-plane thermal conductivity in 1d and 2d configurations: a numerical investigation.
In Eurotherm 108: Nanoscale and Microscale Heat Transfer V, Oral presentation at International Eurotherm 108: Nanoscale and Microscale Heat Transfer V, Santorini, Greece, September 2016.

13

Yacine Allab, Margot Pellegrino, Xiaofeng Guo, Elyes Nefzaoui, and A. Kindinis.
L'éfficacité énergetique des bâtiments existants: le cas d'eétude d'un campus universitaire français.
In International Building Performance Simulation Association, Champs-sur-Marne, France, May 2016.

14

P.-O. Chapuis, T.T.T. Nghiem, C.A. Da Cruz, and E. Nefzaoui.
Thermal transport phenomena beyond the diffusive regime.
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, MIXDES 2016, pages 32-37, 2016.

15

Elyes Nefzaoui, Younes Ezzahri, Karl Joulain, and Jeremie Drevillon.
Tunable Radiative Thermal Rectifiers : Toward Thermal Logical Circuits.
In The 15th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-15), Kyoto, Japan, August 2015.

16

W. Jaber, C. Chevalier, E. Nefzaoui, C. Abs da Cruz, and P.-O. Chapuis.
Phonon heat conduction from silicon sub-mean free path sources measured with electrical means.
In Phonons 2015 (15th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter), Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 2015.

17

E. Nefzaoui, C. Abs da Cruz, B. Wong, and P.-O. Chapuis.
Phonon confinement analyzed with the Boltzmann transport equation solved by the discrete ordinates method in 1d and 2d configurations.
In Phonons 2015 (15th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter), Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 2015.

18

W. Jaber, C. Chevalier, C. Abs da Cruz, E. Nefzaoui, and P.-O. Chapuis.
Thermal conductances of silicon sub-mean free path heat sources measured with a four-probe electrical setup.
In MRS Spring meeting, Symposiumm on Nanoscale Heat Transfer – From fundamentals to devices, San Francisco, United States, April 2015.

19

J. Drevillon, E. Nefzaoui, Y. Ezzahri, and K. Joulain.
Radiative thermal rectification using superconducting materials.
In Eurotherm 103 : Nanoscale and Microscale Heat Transfer IV, Lyon , France, October 2014.

20

E. Nefzaoui and P.-O. Chapuis.
A comparative study of different numerical approaches to the boltzmann transport equation for phonons.
In Eurotherm 103 : Nanoscale and Microscale Heat Transfer IV, Lyon , France, October 2014.

21

E. Nefzaoui, J. Drevillon, Y. Ezzahri, and K. Joulain.
Photonics for Radiative Thermal Rectification.
In E-MRS Spring Meetings, Lille , France, May 2014.

22

E. Nefzaoui, K. Joulain, J. Drevillon, and Y. Ezzahri.
Propositions pour la rectification thermique radiative en champ lointain.
In 8eme Journees dEtudes en Rayonnement Thermique, Lyon, France, 2014.

23

Elyes Nefzaoui, Younes Ezzahri, Jeremie Drevillon, and Karl Joulain.
On optimal optical properties for near-field radiative heat transfer maximization between two semi-infinite planes at room temperature.
In RAD-13. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer, Kusadasi, Turkey, June 2013. Begel House Inc.

24

E. Nefzaoui, K. Joulain, J. Drevillon, and Y. Ezzahri.
Sur le transfert radiatif maximal en champ proche entre deux plans.
In 7eme Journees dEtudes en Rayonnement Thermique, Nantes, France, March 2013.

25

E. Nefzaoui, Y. Ezzahri, J. Drevillon, and K. Joulain.
On Maximal near-field radiative heat transfer.
In Nanoenergy 2013, Perugia, Italy, July 2013.

26

I. Bogatyrev, K. Joulain, J. Drevillon, and E. Nefzaoui.
Thermophotovoltaic cell performance improving by thermal losses optimization.
In International Conference on Nanoscience + Technology (ICN+T2012), Paris, France, July 2012.

27

J. Drevillon, E. Nefzaoui, and K. Joulain.
Selective emitters design and optimization for thermophotovoltaic applications.
In phonons and fluctuations 3, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Girona, Spain, May 2012.

28

J. Drevillon, E. Nefzaoui, K. Joulain, and P. Ben-Abdallah.
Selective emitters design for thermophotovoltaics.
In 3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics Crystals and Plasmonics, Paris, France, April 2012.

29

E. Nefzaoui, J. Drevillon, and K. Joulain.
1d selective emitters optimization for TPV application.
In Eurotherm 91 : Microscale heat transfer III, Poitiers, France, August 2011.

30

J. Drevillon, E. Nefzaoui, K. Joulain, and Ph Ben-Abdallah.
Optimization and Simplification of Spectrally Coherent Thermal Sources.
In MRS Spring Meetings, San Francisco, United States, April 2011.

31

Elyes Nefzaoui, Jeremie Drevillon, and Karl Joulain.
Conception et optimisation d'emetteurs selectifs pour applications thermophotovoltaïques.
Perpignan, France, May 2011.

32

E. Nefzaoui, J. Drevillon, and K. Joulain.
Nanostructures thermal emission optimization using genetic algorithms and particle swarms.
In ICEC 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, pages 219-224, 2010.

33

E. Nefzaoui and O. Skurtys.
Water drop impact on a granular medium.
In Southern Workshop on Granular Materials 2009 - SWGM09, Vina del Mar, Chile, November 2009.

Reviewer

• Optical Society of America: Optics Express, Otpics Letters, Journal of the Optical Society of America A
• American Institute of Physics: Journal of Applied Physics
• Elsevier: Infrared Physics and Technology

GRANTS AND FUNDINGS

• CEMIP, Platform for electronics cooling using nano/micro-materials (2016)
• CEMIP, Platform for micro-structured thermal meta-metarials characterization (2015)
• EFFICACITY, Non-residential buildings energy efficiency assessment innovative protocols (2015-17)
• FRENCH GOVERNMENT, Grant as Reasearch and Teaching assistant in U. Poitiers (2009-12)
• POITOU-CHARENTE REGION, Grant as reasearch assistant in Univ. Santiago de Chile (2009)
• TUNISIAN GOVERNMENT, Full merit scholarship for MsC in Mechanical Engineering (2006-09)

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