Pierre Henocq
Ph.D | Concrete Durability & Materials Scientist | R&D Project Manager
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Radionuclide & Cement chemistry • Transport • Corrosion • Radioactive Waste Management 25 years of experience in Concrete Durability 13 years of experience in Radioactive Waste Management
Experience
Research project manager at Andra (French national radioactive waste management agency), R&D Division (2013 – Present)
Management of the activities on radionuclide migration in cement-based and clay-rock materials Task leader in the European projects EURAD and EURAD2
- Radionuclide migration in the cement-based materials and the geological barrier
- Chemical and mechanical evolution of the disposal components
- Characterization of the microstructure of porous media
- Radionuclide properties: Solubility/speciation, sorption and diffusion
- Effect of organic, saline and temperature perturbations
- Development of alternative techniques for diffusion of radiotracers
- Influence of microbiology in disposal conditions (redox, gas release)
- Geochemical modelling (reactive transfer, sorption models, activity models)
- Thermodynamic database development: Thermochimie ()
Scientific collaborator at Laboratory of Construction Materials, EPFL (2012 – 2013)
- Developing durability tests for cement-based materials
- Characterization of calcined clays blended materials
Physicist, project manager at SIMCO Technologies inc., R&D department (2005 – 2012)
Managing R&D projects for characterizing and predicting the service life of concrete structures. Expert in cement chemistry, electrochemistry, mass transfer modelling in porous materials (saturated and unsaturated), and corrosion of steel reinforcement.
- Characterization of the rebar corrosion process in reinforced concrete
- Wasteform mixture characterization (Savannah River National Lab.)
- Modelling electro-migration tests
Lecturer at Laval University (2005 – 2012)
Master and Ph.D - Concrete durability (GCI-7082 NRC 13611)
Lecturer at Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies (2017 – Present)
Master II – Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Education
Ph.D Thesis in Civil engineering – Laval University (CRIB) (2005)
DEA (Master II) in Experimental physics of ions and molecules – Paris VI University (1998)
Master in Materials Sciences in Materials Sciences – Paris XI University (1997)
Master in Physics and applications in Physics and applications – Paris XI University (1996)
Licence in fundamental physics – Paris XI University (1994)
