Pierre Henocq

Radionuclide & Cement chemistry • Transport • Corrosion • Radioactive Waste Management 25 years of experience in Concrete Durability 13 years of experience in Radioactive Waste Management

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

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)