He is the principal investigator for Composites Lab (MCEM), previously known as COHMAS (Composite and Heterogeneous Materials Analysis and Simulation, an integrated environment for composite engineering that he created in 2009 when joining KAUST).

Following his “aggregation” in theoretical mechanics, Pr. Lubineau earned a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS-Cachan), France. Before joining KAUST, Pr. Lubineau was a faculty member at the École Normale Supérieure of Cachan and a non-resident faculty member at the École Polytechnique, France. He also served as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley.

His fields of research include integrity at short and/or long-term of composite materials and structures, inverse problems for the identifica­tion of constitutive parameters, multi-scale coupling technique, nano and/or multifunctional materials. He covers a wide expertise related to most fields of composite materials, with over 200 published papers in journals spanning from material science (Advanced Materials, Macro­molecules, etc.) all the way to theoretical mechanics (JMPS, CST, Scien­tific Reports) and applied math’s (IJNME, CMAME, etc.).

He is also a board member for various journals, including the Internation­al Journal of Damage Mechanics.

Prof. Lubineau is an elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.