Dr Maélie Caussé
Maélie Caussé is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, in Chris Pickard’s group.
Her work focuses on searching superconductivity at high temperatures in hydrides, employing machine learning (ML) for high-throughput screening to identify groundbreaking materials.
She completed her Ph.D. in 2024 at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), under the guidance of Grégory Geneste and Paul Loubeyre. Her thesis involved experimental and computational studies of superhydrides at extreme pressures and temperatures, incorporating techniques like diamond anvil cells (DAC) and ab initio calculations.
Equipped with expertise in high-pressure physics, electronic structure analysis, and crystal structure prediction, she is proficient in tools like DFT calculations, superhydrides synthesis in DAC and X-ray diffraction analysis. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges computational, experimental, and theoretical methods.
Beyond academia, she enjoys traditional Japanese music by playing Koto. She also paints watercolours.
Select publications
- M.Caussé, G. Geneste, L. Toraille, B. Guigue, V. Paul-Boncour, P. Loubeyre, ’Synthesis of Laves phase YFe2H6 and YFe2H7 at high pressure : reaching a limit of interstitial hydrogen uptake’, JALCOM 1010, 177392 (2025)
- A. Camiruaga, J.-M. Beau, Y.Bourdreux, M. Caussé et al., ’Mixing water with lipids : conformations of isolated and micro-hydrated glycolipids in the gas phase’, J. Chem. Phys. 160, 214313 (2024)
- M. Caussé, G. Geneste, P. Loubeyre, ’Superionicity of Hδ− in LaH10 superhydride’, Phys. Rev. B 107, L060301 (2023)
- E. Alvarez Andres, M. Caussé, et al., ”Assessment of the generalizability to pediatric protontherapy of a 3d network generating pseudo-ct.” Radiotherapy and Oncology, 152, (2020)
Select awards
- Best Poster Award – Metal Hydrogen System Conference 2024, Saint-Malo
- Best Poster Award – High Pressure Summer School, SUSSP 78, Edinburgh
