Professor in Data/AI applied to Materials and Processes Attached to the Institut Clément Ader Albi (ICA-A) Center

POST ENVIRONMENT:

A school of the ministry in charge of industry, IMT Mines Albi is a school of the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT), France's leading group of engineering and management schools. At the forefront of industrial and academic challenges on the international stage, it acts as a territorial scientific and economic driver by combining its four missions: training engineers by integrating the dynamics of sustainable development, conducting scientific research, contributing to economic development, and disseminating the culture of science, technology, and innovation, in a virtuous and innovation-driving cycle.

Its positioning in terms of training and research makes IMT Mines Albi a benchmark school in three of IMT's four themes: responsible industry of the future; energy, circular economy, and society; engineering, health, and well-being. In 2023, IMT Mines Albi adopted a strategic plan for a five-year period, broken down into seven major actions, responding to the strategic orientations of the IMT group to which it belongs.

IMT Mines Albi represents:

• 985 engineering students and researchers in training;

• 300 staff members;

• a consolidated budget of €32 million;

• three training and research centers: Institut Clément Ader Albi (ICA-A), RAPSODEE, and Centre Génie Industriel.

The Institut Clément Ader Albi (ICA-A) Center is a training and research center of IMT Mines Albi. It brings together 70 people, including 20 teacher-researchers.

In terms of training, it is a player in the generalist engineering training at IMT Mines Albi, under student or apprenticeship status, and leads the "Advanced Materials and Processes for Tomorrow's Transportation" specialization.

In terms of research, it is an integral part of the Institut Clément Ader (ICA – UMR CNRS 5312), a laboratory bringing together 250 people and developing scientific themes focused on materials engineering and mechanics, particularly in the field of aeronautics. Its five supervisory bodies are INSA Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO, Université Paul Sabatier, IMT Mines Albi, and CNRS.

ICA Website: https://ica.cnrs.fr/

ICA conducts studies on mechanical structures, systems, and processes. Its sectors of activity are the mechanical industries, with a particular focus on aerospace, space, transport, and energy.

The Institut Clément Ader Albi center contributes to ICA's four research groups:

• Composite Materials and Structures;

• Surfaces, Machining, Materials, Tools;

• Metrology, Identification, Control, Monitoring;

• Modeling of Mechanical Systems and Microsystems.

ICA-A's scope of action is to optimize tools or material forming processes (metals, composites, polymers, glasses, etc.) and to study the relationships between microstructure, process, and behavior, particularly for the aeronautics and space sectors. Its activities are strongly experimental, but also numerical.

ICA-A has its own research platform on the IMT Mines Albi campus, the MIMAUSA platform. ICA-A has been a Restricted Zone (ZRR) since 2021.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Generally, the recruited person will participate in the school's educational projects, training missions, research and technology transfer activities, the setup and monitoring of contractual activities, as well as national and international collaborations. They will actively contribute to the development of these activities and may be required to assume administrative and supervisory responsibilities.

The recruited person will notably be responsible for:

• pedagogical responsibilities: head of teaching cycle, head of specialization, head of Master's or Mastère program, head of teaching unit;

• and/or research responsibilities: center director, deputy center director, head of research group, head of research axis, platform manager;

• and/or responsibilities related to industrial transfer and economic development;

• and/or transversal responsibilities, such as: process or subprocess manager, international thematic lead.

Training Activities

Within the training program of the ICA-A center, the recruited person will participate in the pedagogical and teaching activities of IMT Mines Albi.

 In this context, they will be required to:

• contribute to the evolution of pedagogical programs and provide teaching in the fields of data analysis and artificial intelligence applied to eco-design, the development of new materials, their forming, as well as the study of their degradation mechanisms and the prediction of part lifespan;

• support and organize the School's training missions in their various forms: initial or continuing education, under student or employee status, and training leading to Mastère or Master degrees;

• participate in the setup or management of new training programs (Mastère or Master), take responsibility for one or more teaching units, get involved in the organization and monitoring of student projects, as well as in the development and exploitation of MOOCs;

• supervise projects with simulated situations, internships, and final studies.

Research Activities

 Within the research program of the ICA-A center, the recruited person will:

• propose a scientific approach for the development of innovative methods for data exploitation and analysis and the use of AI, capable of meeting the demands of multi-scale simulation/experiment dialogue. These methods will be used for monitoring or understanding material properties related to their manufacturing or to monitoring the health status of parts in service in potentially critical environments (high or low temperatures, strong mechanical stresses, oxidizing or corrosive atmospheres);

• be attached to one of the research groups of the ICA laboratory (UMR 5312)

• demonstrate their ability to develop contractual activity with companies and participate in the setup of teaching and research chairs in relation to companies;

• contribute to the scientific influence of IMT Mines Albi and the ICA laboratory through active involvement in supervising theses and post-doctoral researchers, significant scientific output, dissemination of scientific information at conferences, and organization of scientific events;

• be involved in setting up collaborative projects with other research centers of IMT Mines Albi: RAPSODEE and CGI.

Valorization and Economic Development Activities

Within the valorization and economic development program of the ICA-A center, the recruited person will be required to:

• strengthen local and regional economic development by supporting incubating or prospecting entities within IMT Mines Albi;

• and/or support ad hoc initiatives by responding to requests for support (CIFRE theses, direct contracts) from companies, particularly VSEs and SMEs, in their area of expertise;

• and/or support industrial dynamics by participating in the establishment and management of industrial chairs or joint laboratories to optimize technological and methodological transfer to local, regional, or national stakeholders.

Evolution of Responsibilities

In the medium term, the recruited person may be offered:

• pedagogical responsibilities: head of teaching cycle, head of specialization, head of Master's or Mastère program, head of teaching unit;

• and/or research responsibilities: head of research group, head of research axis, platform manager;

• and/or responsibilities related to industrial transfer and economic development.

PROFILE SOUGHT:

The candidate must have at least eight years of research experience in the specialty of Data/AI applied to materials and processes.

Qualification for professor positions in section 60 of the CNU is highly desirable.

In addition, the candidate must:

• present scientific expertise in several of the following areas: digital twins, system dynamics, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, deep optimization;

• demonstrate experience in the design and management of educational programs;

• show a strong ability and a pronounced taste for leading a research team;

• possess real interpersonal skills, as well as a developed sense of human relations and collective values;

• present scientific output consistent with national and international standards and significant experience in doctoral supervision.

BEYOND THE PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT, WHY JOIN US? 

• A pleasant working environment on a 22-hectare campus;

• a managerial package with 49 days of annual leave (holidays + RTT);

• remote work possible;

• on-site administrative catering;

• support for sustainable mobility for commuting;

• social benefits (supplementary social protection and family assistance);

• relocation assistance;

• assistance with integration into the region: https://www.grand-albigeois.fr/entreprendre/creer-se-developper/soutien-au-recrutement-salarie/

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Status: civil servant or secondment to our management framework.

• For internal use:

• Position category and reference profession: Profession A – Professor, Director of Studies, and Director of Research

• Reference profession(s) for applicants: all categories

• Location: Albi – IMT Mines Albi.

• Application opening date: October 1, 2026.

• Application deadline: November 1, 2026.

• Desired start date: January 1, 2027.

The positions offered for recruitment are open to all, with, upon request, accommodations for candidates with disabilities.

Contacts:

On the job content:
Ms. Anaïs BARASINSKI – Center Director
 

On administrative/HR aspects:
Ms. Marie GILLET – Recruitment and Skills Development Manager
 

Data Protection

As part of the General Data Protection Regulation, candidates are informed that their data will be kept by the administration for a maximum period of two years, unless otherwise requested in their cover letter.

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