(2006) Cohen Lectures, Northwestern University (2006) D.K.McDonald Lecture, Canada (2007) CNRS Silver Medal (2009) Max Planck Lecture, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart (2009) Thermec Distinguished award (2009) Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (2010) Lee Hsun Research Award, China (2010) Henry Marion Howe Medal (2010) Prix Gay-Lussac-Humboldt (2010) Member of the French Academy of Sciences(2010) Member of the Academia Europaea (2011) Wolf-Ramanujan lecture () (2012) Docteur Honoris Causa McMaster University (2012) Professor at Collège de France, annual chair "Innovation and Technology" (2012–2013) Grande medaille de la Société Française de Métallurgie et Materiaux (2013) Cambridge Granta award for excellence in teaching in materials science (2018) Shanghai Jiaotong University "Master Distinguished Lecture" (2018) Kelly lecture "Armours and Brasiers" (Cambridge 2019) Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université Catholique de Louvain (2019) Bibliography Y. Bréchet, Microstructures, Mechanical Properties and Processes, EUROMAT 99. Volume 3 (2000). J. Agren, Y. Bréchet, C. Hutchinson, J. Philibert, G. Purdy, Thermodynamics and Phase Transformations, EDP Sciences, 2006 (). Y. Bréchet, D. Embury, P. Onck, Architectured MuItifunctional Materials, MRS Symposium Proceedings (2009) M.F. Ashby, D.R.H Jones, Y. Bréchet, J. Courbon, M. Dupeux, "Matériaux. Tome 1, Propriétés, applications et conception", Dunod, 2008 (). J. Philibert, A. Vignes, Y. Bréchet, P. Combrade, "Métallurgie, du minerai au matériau", Dunod, 2002 (). Salvo, Y. Bréchet, M.F. Ashby, "Traité des matériaux, Tome 20, Sélection des matériaux et des procédés de mise en œuvre", PPUR, 2001 (). Y.Brechet, Lecon inaugurale au college de France " du materiaux de rencontre au materiau sur mesure" (2013) Y.Estrin, Y.Brechet, J.Dunlop, P.FRatzl "architectured materials" (2019) Notes and references Living people 1961 births French materials scientists French physicists Members of the French Academy of Sciences École Polytechnique alumni Grenoble Alpes University alumni People from Chamalières Academic staff of Grenoble Institute of Technology