Oumaïma GHARBI

Oumaïma GHARBI

Chargée de Recherche CNRS

Membre permanent

  • Sorbonne Université - UMR CNRS 7197 - Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface (LRS) - Tour 33-43 -Bureau 324
    4 Place Jussieu - CC178 , 75005 Paris

Research Field

Research interest

- Electrochemistry, corrosion of metal alloys and emerging materials (alloys produced by additive manufacturing, high-entropy alloys).
- Corrosion protection using ionic liquids and study of mechanisms using a multi-scale approach.


Technical expertise

- Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
- Cyclic voltammetry
- Coupling electrochemistry and spectroscopic methods

About me

CV

2016 - PhD in Physical and Analytical Chemistry -Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Expérience

2020 - Chargée de Recherche CNRS
2018 -2020 - Attachée temporaire d'enseignement et de recherche (ATER) - Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
2017-2018 - Postdoctoral fellowship, Materials science and engineering - Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Distinctions and selected publications

Distinctions

2020 - EFC Young Researcher Award, EUROCORR, plenary conference - Belgium (online)
2019 - l'Oréal UNESCO Prize for Women in Science, Young Talent - France
2018 - Young Researcher Award - International Conference on Al Alloys ICAA16 - Canada

Selected publications

- Ionic liquid route for the corrosion inhibition of Al alloys: the effect of butylammonium nitrate on the corrosion of AA2024-T6
 A.Z. Benbouzid, O. Gharbi, N. Sidi-Yakoub, M.T. Tran, M. Turmine, V. Vivier, Corrosion communications, 2023 57-64 2.

- Current state of electrochemical techniques and corrosion rate analysis for next-generation materials
J. Han, O. Gharbi, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 2022, 36:101131 5.

- A Primer on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
S. Wang, J. Zhang, O. Gharbi, V. Vivier, M. Gao, Mark E. Orazem, Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 1, Article number: 41 (2021)

- Revisiting cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy analysis for capacitance measurements
O. Gharbi, Mai T.T. Tran, B. Tribollet, M. Turmine, V. Vivier, Electrochim Acta, 343 (2020) 136109. 4.

- Chromate replacement: What does the future hold?
O. Gharbi, S. Thomas, C. Smith, N. Birbilis, npj Materials Degradation 2, 2018 3.

Teachings and supervision

Co-supervision of PhD theses:
2022-2025 On the study of pitting corrosion of aluminium: coupling of electrochemical and acoustic measurements (Cyrine Lamloum) – Sorbonne Université, France
2021-2024 The passivity of high entropy alloys (Yaojun Hou) – Sorbonne Université, France
2016-2019 The passivity of bcc stainless Mg-Li alloy (Yuanming Yan) – Monash University, Australia