Pierre-Colin Gervais
H +33 6 48 10 13 72 B
[email protected]
PhD in Process Engineering 32 years old, married, 2 children
15 rue Aristide Briand, F-54000 Nancy
Work Experience
Computer Skills Current, from august 2016
Business engineer – CTHEN French Institute for Radiological protection and Nuclear Safety, Technical Centre for the Approval of Nuclear Equipment (CEA) ➜ Tests supervision (dampers, filters, PPE) sept. 2015 – june 2016 Business creation project leader Promotech CEI (Nancy) ➜ Define and develop an offer ➜ Negotiating with strategic partners and prospects
numerical computing CFD multiphysics data analysis OS statistical computing
Laboratory Skills imaging
SEM, SPECT-CT, X-ray µ-tomography
characterization
Infrared spectroscopy, CNC High performance refractometry, SMPS chromatography
july 2013 – july 2015 Research engineer French Institute for Radiological protection and Nuclear Safety ➜ Experimental studies on fibrous filtration performances ➜ Airflow and particles transport modeling, simulation and optimization in HEPA filters ➜ Initiate internal and external collaborations (INRS, GeoDict, Bekaert, Novitom) oct. 2009 – june 2013 PhD researcher, lecturer Reactions and Chemical Engineering Lab., ENSIC Nancy, France ➜ Implementation of an imaging method to visualize aerosol deposit on the pleat height of mini-pleated filter feb. 2008 – sept. 2009 Researcher trainee Physics of condensed matter and advanced materials, Luxembourg and Saarland Universities, Luxembourg and Germany ➜ Influence of nano-particles during chemically induced solgel and glass transitions of epoxy/silica nanocomposites june 2004 – sept. 2004 R&D trainee Forges de Bologne, Manoir Industries, France ➜ Improvement of the chemical pickling process for cobalt or nickel-based superalloys
Education 2013 2009 2005 2004
PhD in Process and Product Engineering, Lorraine University, Nancy, France Master in Mechanical, Energy, Process and Product, Lorraine University, Nancy, France Licence in Industrial Systems Engineering, Lorraine University, Nancy, France French undergraduate university degree in technology in Chemical and Process Engineering, Lorraine University, Nancy, France
Matlab, Scilab Gambit, Fluent, ANSYS Workbench GeoDict OriginLab, Excel Mac OS, Windows, Linux R, SPSS
metrology aerosol
flow, pressure, humidity and temperature measurement, instrumentation, PID Monodisperse aerosol generator, Light-scattering spectrometer system.
Languages French English Italian
motherlanguage fluent learning in progress
Management Participation ➜ Fluid-Particle Separation French Society, member of the board of directors (http://www.sf2p.separation.fr) ➜ Reviewer for Separation and Purification Technology, Materials Research and Innovations ➜ PhD students and postdocs elected official, member of the LRGP laboratory council
Selected Publications Simulations of filter media performances from microtomography-based computational domain. Experimental and analytical comparison. P.-C. Gervais, S. Bourrous, F. Dany, L. Bouilloux and L. Ricciardi. Computers & Fluids, in press (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.04.019 Permeability modeling of fibrous media with bimodal fiber size distribution. P.-C. Gervais, N. Bardin-Monnier and D. Thomas.Chemical Engineering Science 73, 239-248 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2012.01.040
last update: oct. 2016.