Chimie ParisTech
(École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris)
France
Shortname: ENSCP
Description of the organization
The “Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris” is founder member of ParisTech (www.paristech.org) which is a research and higher education cluster of excellence composed of 12 French Grandes Écoles (Engineering and Business Schools) that cover a sweeping spectrum in science, technology and management The high professor/students ratio, the wide range of scientific disciplines covered and the quality of research at ParisTech attract the top 5% undergraduate students in chemistry in France and the best scientists. ENSCP delivers a master of chemical engineering after a highly selective recruitment, and other M.S degrees in materials, environment science, and nuclear energy via the international Master of Nuclear Energy. The Research Centre is composed of 100 faculty staff including 55 full-time professors, associate and assistant professors, 45 full-time CNRS researchers and 100 technicians and administrative. It is divided into two departments covering two broad research areas:
- Moissan department for energy, materials and process engineering
- Friedel department for molecular chemistry and life chemistry. Research and teaching correspond to the strong axis of the competence available at ParisTech in areas of priority interest to the French national and worldwide needs.
Main tasks attributed / previous experience related to those tasks
The sharp increase of nuclear activities in the world to face up the demand of energy is accompanied by an intensive activity of research in nuclear field. ENSCP developed for many years a large and active nuclear research and teaching program in collaboration with the main French nuclear industries such as Andra, Areva, CEA, EDF and IRSN. A chair between Areva and ENSCP has been recently set up for getting more and more efficient the research and the training in nuclear chemistry. The research at ENSCP covers all over the nuclear fuel cycle: from mining to the front-end of the nuclear cycle, corrosion and deposition-dissolution phenomena in pressurized-water reactors, elaboration of new materials for waste deposits, etc. All of the research’s topics are in strong interaction with the courses in the Master of Nuclear Energy. In CINCH, the most important tasks of ENSCP will be to define a methodology for the comparison and evaluation of the curricula, to find sustainable sources of financing for students and teachers exchange and to identify the main topics of the e-learning platform in nuclear fuel cycle. All of these tasks will be helpful for preparing ground for a future “European Master in Nuclear Chemistry”. ENSCP will lead WP5.
Short profiles of the key staff members
Gérard Cote is professor, Head of the Nuclear Science Division of Chimie ParisTech and Head of the major “Fuel cycle engineering” of the international master of science in Nuclear Energy (http://www.master-nuclear-energy.fr). His fields of interest are actinide solution chemistry, physical inorganic chemistry, separation science. He is author of about 140 open literature publications in solution chemistry, radiochemistry and separation science, 3 patents, and approximately 130 talks and poster presentations at local, national and international meetings.
Alexandre Chagnes is assistant professor at ENSCP. His fields of interest are solution chemistry, separation science, thermodynamic, nuclear chemistry and hydrometallurgy. He is author of 32 publications in solution chemistry, thermodynamics, electrochemistry and separation science, 39 talks and poster presentations at local, national and international meetings and he contributed chapters to two books. He was Associate editor of the International Solvent Extraction Conference 2008 (ISEC’08) in Tucson (Arizona, USA).