Bernard GRUZZA

Born 26 September 1952 in Marseille (France)

Academic position:
  • Professor of Physical Sciences
  • Head of the research group "Surfaces and Interfaces"
  • Head of the physics department of the CUST engineering school
  • Elected member of the Scientic Council of the Blaise Pascal University
Academic Degrees:
  • 1977 - Graduated in Physics, Aix-Marseille III University
  • 1979 - PhD, Solid State Physics
  • 1987 - State Doctorate in Physical Science
Research Experience:
  • Before 1979, at the Laboratoire de Microscopie et Diffractions Electroniques University of Aix-Marseille III, in interfaces studies, 2D--3D phase transformation with UHV system and electron analysis.

  • From 1981, has developed the group Surface and Interface Science in the LASMEA laboratory of Clermont-Ferrand.

  • Since 1990, coordinator of five international cooperations programmes as part of the CNRS and the French Foreign Ministery conventions
  • From 1996 to 2001, coordinator of a COPERNICUS European Community Programme

Areas of Interest:
  • Surface physics and related phenomena
  • Samples analysis and electron spectroscopies
  • Monte-Carlo simulations of electron trajectories in substrates
  • Quantitative interpretations of elastic peak electron spectroscopy (EPES)
  • Submicroscopic interfaces studies
  • Microelectronic and Optoelectronic structures on III-V samples
  • Passivation and nitridation of III-V semiconductors

Author of approximately 100 papers

About 140 invited lectures or participations to international conferences



How to contact me

Laboratoire des Sciences des Materiaux pour l'Electronique, et d'Automatique (LASMEA).
UMR CNRS 6602
UFR Sciences, Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont II
63177 Aubiere cedex, France
(+33) 04 73 40 73 39(+33) 04 73 40 75 33
(+33) 04 73 40 73 40(+33) 04 73 40 75 10


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