Nicolas Dacheux

• Syntheses through wet and dry chemistry methods, and hydrothermal routes of inorganic precursors
• Sintering of ceramic materials
   
• Dissolution and leaching of ceramic materials (model nuclear fuels, matrices for specific conditionning)
   
• Determination of thermodyanmic data associated with dissolution reactions and saturation processes
   
• Techniques dealing with the characterization of materials (XRD, vibrational spectroscopies, SEM, TEM, EPMA) and elementary (ICP-AES, ICP-MS) or radiochemical (alpha or beta liquid scintillation, alpha, beta or gamma spectrometry) analyses in solution

• Supervision or co-supervision of 46 PhD thesis
   
• Head of "Partitionning chemistry, Materials and Process" speciality within Master of Chemistry at University Montpellier
   
• Teaching in Bachelor, Professional Bachelor and Master grades at University Montpellier 2 , mainly in Radiochemistry, Chemistry at the ultra-trace level, Radioecotoxicology, Management of radwaste and Nuclear materials
   
• Teaching in Radiochemistry/Radioactivity at University Paris-Sud (PCGE Master), Ecole Polytechnique Féminine (5A - ECD) and within the French-Chinese Institute of Nuclear Energy (IFCEN)

Author of 216 publications in international scientific peer-reviewed journals, 6 patents, 45 proceedings, 16 scientific popularization papers, 100 oral communications and seminars and 39 invited conferences.

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Award-winner of Société Française à l’Energie Nucléaire (SFEN) Prize – Essonne (1995), of Yvan Peychès Grand Prix of Académie des Sciences (2001) and of Special promotion award of IN2P3 (CNRS, 2002).