GEMTEX
Textile Research Laboratory

GEMTEX, TEXTILE REASEARCH LABORATORY

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Projects per year
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current PhD students
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Researchers and technicians
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The missions of the project mentoring committee, goals and strategy

NEWS

E-textile conference

04/11/25
Di SHA Will defend his doctoral thesis entitled: «Research on the production behaviour and collaborative regulation of sustainable clothing companies under carbon emission constraints and government incentives» on Thursday, 6 November 2025 at Ensait He will be accompanied by his thesis supervisor: Kim-Phuc TRAN.

 

E-textile conference

21/10/25
E-Textiles 2025, the 7th International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles will take place from the 12th-14th of November at ENSAIT  – University of Lille, in Roubaix, France.
Chairs: Prof. Vladan Koncar, Dr. Cédric Cochrane and Dr. Xuyuan Tao.
More informations

 

New  PhD student : 

Kim Lê GIRAUD

21/10/25
Kim Lê GIRAUD as started his PhD Thesis on the 1st of October. She will be involved in BIGBAGNAT project. Her thesis subject is about the multi-scale characterisation of natural fibre reinforcements for use in recyclable and compostable big bags. Her thesis supervisors are Damien Soulat, Ahmad Rashed Labanieh, Manuela Feirreira, Romain Benkirane.

 

New  PhD student : 

Bekinew Kitaw DEJENE

 

21/10/25
Bekinew Kitaw DEJENE as started his PhD Thesis on the 1st of October. He will be involved in Pré-Vert project. His thesis subject is about the development of innovative, bio-inspired and frugal textile solutions to improve the comfort of homes under renovation. More informations here

 

New thesis defense 

 

03/10/25
Jean IVARS will defend his doctoral thesis entitled: ‘Regeneration and development of reinforcements based on recycled carbon fibres, optimisation of parameters using numerical methods’ on Thursday 7 October 2025 at Ensait. He will be accompanied by his thesis supervisors Ahmad LABANIEH, Damien SOULAT ans Kim Phuc TRAN

Bekinew Kitaw DEJENE

 

New thesis defense 

 

29/09/25
Jian HU has defended his doctoral thesis entitled: ‘Characterisation and optimisation of the forming behaviour of composite preforms obtained by automated fibre placement on Thursday 2 October 2025 at Ensait. He will be accompanied by his thesis supervisor Xavier LEGRAND.

 

4 Gemtex researchers ranked in the « Top 2% »

29/09/25
We are pleased to announce that the laboratory has placed four of its ECs on the ‘singleyr authors’ list and three on the ‘career authors’ list, in the Stanford/Elsevier 2025 list highlighting the top 2% of most cited scientists in the world
More informations here

Sainan WEI, visiting researcher

09/09/25
We are delighted to welcome Ms Sanai WEI, professor in the Department of Textile Engineering, Faculty of Textiles and Clothing, Hebei University of Science and Technology, China.
More informations here

New thesis defense 

Confidential defense

25/08/25
Bénédicte STRICH has defended her doctoral thesis entitled: ‘Alternative to current microfibres for sustainable industrial cleaning’ on Friday 5 September 2025 at Ensait. She has been accompanied by her thesis supervisor and co-supervisor: Aurélie CAYLA and François RAULT.

 

A lifetime achievement award for Pr. Vladan KONCAR

24/06/25
AUTEX, the Association for Universities for Textiles, has awarded Vladan Koncar a Lifetime Achievements Award. This is the highest distinction awarded by AUTEX to high-level academics involved in the association. The award was presented by Professor Georgios Priniotakis at the opening session of the AUTEX International Annual Conference, held in Dresden in June 2025. More information

 

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