Dr. Charles-André Gandin is Research Director with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at Mines Paris, PSL University, France, where he coordinates the team Metallurgy, Mechanics, Structures and Solidification. His research focuses on the modeling of solidification processes in materials science, especially metallic alloys, with a focus on microstructure simulation, phase transformations, thermodynamic calculations and thermomechanics.