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• Contact information
• University training
• Professional experience
• My thesis subject
• Research interests
• Recent Awards

Simulation expert IR, Université de Strasbourg

Contact information

Institut Charles Sadron (CNRS UPR 22) 23 rue du Loess - BP 84047 67034 Strasbourg Cedex 2 France

Phone: + 33 (0)3 88 41 40 97 Mail: olivier.benzerara@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr Room: B151

University training

Physics and Chemistry Phd Ecole Normale superieur de Lyon Master Theorical Chemistry University of Rennes 1

Professional experience

IT Simulation expert

My thesis subject

• "Propriétés thermodynamique des milieux poreux" , supervised by Dr Wei Dong

Research interests

• Glass transition of polymer melts
• Polymers at interfaces
• Molecular simulation of soft matter systems

  

Recent Awards

• Winner of the gpu challenge NVIDIA/equipe@meso 2016

Publications

• Recent publications:

2022

Klochko, L.; Baschnagel, J.; Wittmer, J.P.; Meyer, H.; Benzerara, O.; Semenov, A.N. (2022), Theory of length-scale dependent relaxation moduli and stress fluctuations in glass-forming and viscoelastic liquids,Journal Of Chemical Physics,156(16) : link

Demydiuk, F.; Solar, M.; Meyer, H.; Benzerara, O.; Paul, W.; Baschnagel, J. (2022), Role of torsional potential in chain conformation, thermodynamics, and glass formation of simulated polybutadiene melts,Journal Of Chemical Physics,156(23) : link

2021

Walter, V.; Ruscher, C.; Gola, A.; Marques, C.M.; Benzerara, O.; Thalmann, F. (2021), Ripple-like instability in the simulated gel phase of finite size phosphocholine bilayers,Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes,1863(11) : link

Walter, V.; Ruscher, C.; Benzerara, O.; Thalmann, F. (2021), MLLPA: A Machine Learning-assisted Python module to study phase-specific events in lipid membranes,Journal Of Computational Chemistry,42(13) : 930-943 link

2020

Walter, V.; Ruscher, C.; Benzerara, O.; Marques, C.M.; Thalmann, F. (2020), A machine learning study of the two states model for lipid bilayer phase transitions,Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,22(34) : 19147-19154 link

Klochko, L.; Baschnagel, J.; Wittmer, J.P.; Benzerara, O.; Ruscher, C.; Semenov, A.N. (2020), Composition fluctuations in polydisperse liquids: Glasslike effects well above the glass transition,Physical Review E,102(4) : link

2019

Salamone, S.; Schulmann, N.; Benzerara, O.; Meyer, H.; Charitat, T.; Marques, C.M. (2019), The role of shape disorder in the collective behaviour of aligned fibrous matter,Soft Matter,15(12) : 2657-2665 link

2018

Helfferich, J.; Brisch, J.; Meyer, H.; Benzerara, O.; Ziebert, F.; Farago, J.; Baschnagel, J. (2018), Continuous-time random-walk approach to supercooled liquids: Self-part of the van Hove function and related quantities,European Physical Journal E,41(6) : link

Kriuchevskyi, I.; Wittmer, J.P.; Meyer, H.; Benzerara, O.; Baschnagel, J. (2018), Shear-stress fluctuations and relaxation in polymer glasses,Physical Review E,97(1) : link

2017

Kriuchevskyi, I.; Wittmer, J.P.; Benzerara, O.; Meyer, H.; Baschnagel, J. (2017), Numerical determination of shear stress relaxation modulus of polymer glasses,European Physical Journal E,40(4) : link

Dolgushev, M.; Wittmer, J.P.; Johner, A.; Benzerara, O.; Meyer, H.; Baschnagel, J. (2017), Marginally compact hyperbranched polymer trees,Soft Matter,13(13) : 2499-2512 link

2015

Wittmer, J.P.; Xu, H.; Benzerara, O.; Baschnagel, J. (2015), Fluctuation-dissipation relation between shear stress relaxation modulus and shear stress autocorrelation function revisited,Molecular Physics,113(17-18, Si) : 2881-2893 link

Weysser, F.; Benzerara, O.; Johner, A.; Kulic, I.M. (2015), Topological energy storage of work generated by nanomotors,Soft Matter,11(4) : 732-740 link

2013

Mortazavi, B.; Benzerara, O.; Meyer, H.; Bardon, J.; Ahzi, S. (2013), Combined molecular dynamics-finite element multiscale modeling of thermal conduction in graphene epoxy nanocomposites,Carbon,60() : 356-365 link

2012

Solar, M.; Meyer, H.; Gauthier, C.; Fond, C.; Benzerara, O.; Schirrer, R.; Baschnagel, J. (2012), Mechanical behavior of linear amorphous polymers: Comparison between molecular dynamics and finite-element simulations,Physical Review E,85(2, 1) : link

2011

Solar, M.; Meyer, H.; Gauthier, C.; Benzerara, O.; Schirrer, R.; Baschnagel, J. (2011), Molecular dynamics simulations of the scratch test on linear amorphous polymer surfaces: A study of the local friction coefficient,Wear,271(11-12) : 2751-2758 link

2010

Solar, M.; Meyer, H.; Gauthier, C.; Benzerara, O.; Pelletier, H.; Schirrer, R.; Baschnagel, J. (2010), Molecular dynamics simulations as a way to investigate the local physics of contact mechanics: a comparison between experimental data and numerical results,Journal Of Physics D-Applied Physics,43(45) : link

Durand, M.; Meyer, H.; Benzerara, O.; Baschnagel, J.; Vitrac, O. (2010), Molecular dynamics simulations of the chain dynamics in monodisperse oligomer melts and of the oligomer tracer diffusion in an entangled polymer matrix,Journal Of Chemical Physics,132(19) : link