Szilvia Kalacska

Laboratoire Georges Friedel (CNRS), MINES St-Etienne, France

Dr. Szilvia Kalacska, physicist. During her PhD, she was working on a novel method to calculate the total dislocation density from HR-EBSD measurements. After her PhD in 2018 (Eötvös University, Hungary), she joined Empa (Swiss Federal Labs for Materials Science and Technology, Thun, Switzerland) as a post-doctoral research fellow to develop a focused ion beam tomography technique (3D HR-EBSD) on deformed micron sized samples. In 2021, she obtained her current position as a CNRS Researcher at Laboratoire Georges Friedel (Saint-Étienne, France), where she is now building her micromechanics/HR-EBSD research group. She focuses on in situ micromechanical testing in extreme conditions (during ultra-fast deformations) and in the presence of hydrogen, using various SEM and synchrotron based analytical methods.