Team Management:• 14 people including 3 engineers• Customer quality: complaints management, customer audit follow-up• Continuous improvement: green belt/black belt project management, 5S and problem solving• Operational quality: supervision of quality KPIs, improvement of product yields, definition of internal specifications• Collaboration with the production, sales and business development teams

Team Management:• 27 people• Qualification/calibration of equipment, follow-up of customer audits and updating of the laboratory's documentation quality system• Collaboration with the quality, production, sales and business development teamsTechnical:• Performing physical, chemical and water quality analyses (30+ characterization techniques)• 80k+ samples, 190k+ analyses per year

Development and validation of analytical methods:• XRD (Rietveld and High-temperature chamber)• PSA (Sieving, Laser diffraction, AccuSizer and Sedigraph)• BET• Titration of Bayer liquor and water• Statistical data analysis

Comparative study of the retention mechanisms of strontium and cesium on zeolites.Technical:• Exchange Selectivity - Cation Exchange Isotherm (HPLC, X-ray Fluorescence)• Crystal structure determination (powder XRD)Main Results:• Determination of structural models of ion exchange properties on natural and synthetic Zeolites1 publication, 1 poster

Conception and optimization of a continuous pilot plant for the production of hydroxyapatite.Technical:• Industrial production of spray-dried powders for thermal spraying applications• Collaborating with industrial & academic partners• Particle characterization (granulometry, BET, flowability, zetametry)Main Results:• Development of a continuous pilot plant from laboratory scale up to industrial scale for theproduction of well defined particles1 poster at COST (Aveiro, Portugal)

Effect of ion substitution on hydroxyapatite using continuous low-temperature process.1 publication

Physico-chemical and structural study of hydrated calcium pyrophosphates(CPP): Application to microcalcifications associated with arthritis.Technical:• Formation and evolution of crystal phases• Surface and bulk properties including inflammatory potential• Development of diagnosis tools for microcalcifications characterization• Physico-chemical characterization in vitro and ex vivo: - Powder and single crystal diffraction (XRD, neutron, electron) - Spectrocopy (FTIR, Raman, Solid state NMR) Thermal analysis (TGA-DTA, DSC) - Microscopy (SEM, TEM, AFM) - Chemical analysis (UV-visible spectroscopy, ICP-AES, HPLC, GC)Main Results:• Reliable synthesis protocol of CPP• Complementary characterizations of the pathological phases (crystal structure, morphology, surface properties)• Kinetics of nucleation and growth• Ex vivo analyses of pathological cartilage1 patent, 11 publications, 10 oral communications, 3 posters

Ab initio modelling of crystal structures, morphologies and spectroscopic properties by DFT.

Development of materials for oil operation: Synthesis and structure-properties relationship.

Study of nanocrystals with applications in self-cleaning glasses: Synthesis, characterization of photocatalytic properties, modelling of surface reactivity.1 publication