Mathieu Trocm´e 23 rue du Lœss, BP 28 67 037 Strasbourg cedex 2 FRANCE T (+33/0) 38810 6503 B [email protected] Age: 29 Nationality: French

´ Mathieu TROCME Physics engineer PhD student CV

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(last update: 21 oct. 2009)

Career Objective: To become a professional researcher or a research engineer in subatomic physics

Specific Skills -

Radiation detection and measurements (beam expertise) Dosimetry and radiation protection Monte Carlo simulations (Geant 4, MCNPX) Programming (Root/C++, Perl), data acquisition (Labview) and CAD (Catia)

Education 2005–2009 (in progress)

: Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France PhD thesis in applied nuclear physics (neutron dosimetry) Teaching assistant

2004–2005

: Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France Master’s degree in Subatomic Physics [university grant] (magna cum laude, rank 4/14)

2003–2005

: ENSPS (National Engineering School of Physics), Strasbourg, France Master’s degree in Physical engineering, French Engineering Diploma (magna cum laude, rank 8/83)

2002–2003

: University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Physics BSc/MSci, Erasmus exchange programme (magna cum laude)

1998–2002

: University of Caen, Caen, France Physics BSc (magna cum laude, rank 2/32) Physics and Chemistry two-year university degree (magna cum laude)

1995–1998

: Charles de Gaulle High School, Caen, France High school diploma specializing in Physics and Chemistry

Experience Since Oct 2005 (4 years)

: CNRS/IPHC/RAMSES (French National Center for Scientific Research / Hubert Curien Multidisciplinary Institute / Radiation protection and Environmental Measurements Group), Strasbourg, France – PhD thesis Theme: “Development of an electronic CMOS-based personal neutron dosimeter” Purpose: Development of a personal neutron dosemeter based on CMOS active pixel sensors Activity: Management of the experiments, data acquisition and analysis, optimization of the whole device Key Words: Neutron Dosimetry, Microelectronics, CMOS sensors, Simulations (Geant 4, MCNPX)

Mar-Sep 2005 (6 months)

: CEA DAPNIA/SPhN, Saclay, France – Final year engineering school and university placement Theme: “Simulation of the Spaladin experiment with Geant 4” Purpose: Validation of the experimental filter for the reconstruction of spallation events Activity: Appraisal of detection inefficiencies and parasitic reactions, coupling Geant 4 with Root Key Words: Spallation, Reverse kinematics, Experimental filter, INCL4, ABLA/GEMINI, Root, Geant 4

Jul-Aug 2004 (2 months)

: Nuclear Medicine industrial placement at EuroRad, Strasbourg, France Theme: “Optimization of pixelized γ-camera collimators for breast cancer treatment” Purpose: Optimization of current collimators, development of new collimators Activity: Characterization, optimization and simulation of current and new collimators Key Words: Pixelized γ-camera, CdTe, Parallel hole collimator, Pinhole collimator, Root, Geant 4

Nov-May 2004 (7 months)

: Engineering school project at IRCAD-EITS (Institute of Research into Cancer of the Digestive System - European Institute for TeleSurgery), Strasbourg, France Theme: “Routing and transfer of endoscopic images” Purpose: Enhancement of a surgical teleteaching room Activity: Development of a real-time application in C, Ethernet network implementation Key Words: TCP/UDP, Linux, C (SDL/GTK) Participation at the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics in the Industrial Application of Internet Technologies section, Ajaccio, France - Paper and Poster (Best Student Poster Award)

July-Aug 2003 (2 months)

: Particle Physics summer placement at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) as an official summer student in the Experimental Physics Division within the LHCb group, Geneva, Switzerland Theme: “The LHCb Trigger Tracker Station: Charge calibration in the Si tracker test beam” Purpose: Analysis of electronics modules performances Activity: Development of different processing methods for corrupted data Key Words: Si-strip detector, Radiation hard read-out chip, Root

Nov-May 2003 (7 months)

: Particle Physics project at the University of Bristol in the Particle Physics Department within the SLAC/BABAR group, Bristol, UK Theme: “Rare B meson decays” Purpose: To highlight CP violation in neutral B mesons Activity: Calculation of the branching ratio of the B 0 → Ks0 π + π − channel Key Words: ∆E−mES plane, Monte Carlo efficiency, Argus function, Cut optimization, Root

July-Aug 2001 (2 months)

: Nuclear Physics training course at the CNRS-IN2P3 / LPC Caen (National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics / Nuclear Physics Laboratory), Caen, France Theme: “Study of a low energy non-monokinetic neutron detection device” Purpose: Characterization of the apparatus (efficiency, resolution and energy threshold) Activity: Setting up of the experiment (Hardware), data acquisition Key Words: GEDEON-HINDAS Programme, D´eMoN detectors, n/γ discrimination, TOF spectrometry

PhD thesis - Title: “Development of an electronic CMOS-based personal neutron dosimeter” - Supervisors: Pr. Abdel-Mjid Nourreddine, Daniel Husson - Expected date of PhD defense: 16 december 2009

Work achieved - Characterization (noise, gain, SNR, ...) of several families of sensors - Determination of the response of the overall detection device (neutron convertor plus sensor) with the Monte Carlo simulation codes Geant 4 and MCNPX - Design and fabrication of several neutron convertors (10 B implantation in different materials) - Comparison between simulations and experiments with neutron sources and neutron beams - Sensor calibration with a Van de Graaff accelerator (protons and α particles) - Development of an unfolding code - SSNTD irradiations (PN3, Neutrak, CR-39) with a Van de Graff accelerator (protons and α particles) - Participation in the setting up of routine passive dosimetry of neutrons at the lab (national intercomparison tests) - Participation in the setting up of a neutron calibrator for the lab (Bonner sphere spectrometry) -

Installation of MCNPX in multiprocessing mode at one of the French computing center Installation of Geant 4 on the Grid Contributions to Root improvement (username: zesp) Interfacing of the simulation codes (MCNPX and Geant 4) with CAD softwares (Catia) Most technical points are described here.

Papers - “A new Recoil Proton Telescope with CMOS-pixels for fast neutron metrology”. D. Husson, A. Allaoua, S. Higueret, T.D. Lˆe, L. Lebreton, M. Trocm´e. Proceedings of Science 2008. Proceedings of Vertex 2008, 17th International Workshop on Vertex detectors, Ut¨ o Island, Sweden, July 28-August 1, 2008 - “Dependence of PN3 response to Am-Be neutrons on etching and reading process”. A. Belafrites, A. Nourreddine, S. Higueret, T.D. Lˆe, M. Trocm´e. Radiation Measurements 43 (482-486), 2008. Proceedings of ICNTS 23, 23rd International Conference on Nuclear Tracks in Solids, Beijing, China, September 11-15, 2006 - “A new compact device for efficient neutron counting using a CMOS active pixel sensor”. M. Trocm´e, S. Higueret, D. Husson, A. Nourreddine, T.D. Lˆe. Radiation Measurements 43 (1100-1103), 2008. Proceedings of SSD15, 15th International Conference on Solid State Dosimetry, Delft, The Netherlands, July 8-13, 2007 (3rd poster prize) - “Measurement of 222 Rn at the image level with the AlphaRad chip”. S. Higueret, D. Husson, M. Trocm´e, A. Nourreddine, T.D. Lˆe, N. Michielsen. Radiation Measurements 43 (1059-1062), 2008. Proceedings of SSD15, 15th International Conference on Solid State Dosimetry, Delft, The Netherlands, July 8-13, 2007 - “Development of an integrated CMOS detector for radon activity measurement and neutron dosimetry”. S. Higueret, M. Trocm´e, D. Husson, T.D. Lˆe, A. Nourreddine. CEA 2008 / EDP Sciences, Proceedings of ND07, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Nice, France, April 22-27, 2007 - “Development of a new electronic personal neutron dosemeter using a CMOS active pixel sensor”. M. Trocm´e, S. Higueret, D. Husson, A. Nourreddine and T.D. Lˆe. Radiation Protection Dosimetry 126 (536-540), Proceedings of NEUDOS10, 10th Symposium on Neutron Dosimetry, Uppsala, Sweden, June 12-16, 2006

Communcications -

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium 2008, Dresden, Germany, October 19-25, 2008 IPHC PhD Student Day, Strasbourg, France, January 31, 2008 Young researchers’ meeting, Les Houches, France, January 8-12, 2007 Workshop of the Associated Labs for Health Physics and Dosimetry, Prague, Czech Republic, October 19-20, 2006 Joliot-Curie Summer School on the nuclear fuel cycle, Maubuisson, France, September 18-23, 2006 IReS PhD Student Day, Strasbourg, France, March 6, 2006

Teaching 2005–2009 2006–2009 2009

: Physics labs for high school teacher national competition (experiment setting up and write-up) : Computing project supervisor for master thesis students (Neutron detection) : Electromagnetism class for 2nd year students

Scientific involvement 2007–2009 2007 2006, 2007 2006–2007 2006–2007 2005–2008 August 2007 April 2006

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PhD student representative (PhD student board creation, establishment of PhD student thesis follow-up, PhD student website creation, organization of the 1st PhD student day) Organization of an internal workshop on MCNP Supervision of 2nd year university summer trainees (Characterization of imaging plates : n/γ & X-rays) Author of a book chapter on nuclear wastes for the general public (Vuibert, selected for the 2009 Veolia prize) Contribution to a children’s comic book about the life of researchers (to be published, Strasbourg City Council) Involvement in the annual French Science week (Detection of cosmic rays with a spark chamber) Participation in e2phy 2007 (Summer school to strengthen links between high school teachers and researchers) Management of a children’s scientific workshop (Le Vaisseau, Strasbourg Science Museum)

Additional Information Languages

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French: Native speaker English: Fluent, written and spoken (TOEIC April 2004, 870/990) German: Basic Spanish: Basic

IT Skills

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OS: Windows/Cygwin, Unix Programming: C/C++, Perl, Shell script, VBA, Turbo Pascal Physics tools: Analysis - Root / Simulation - Geant 4, MCNPX (β-user) Engineering tools: Data acquisition - Labview / CAD - Catia / Collaborative work - SVN Word processing: Microsoft/Open Office, LATEX/BibTEX, HTML (PHP), CMS (SPIP, Trac)

Student jobs

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Holiday camp group leader (various camps in 2000-2001) Interim jobs (Handling, Packaging, Stocktaking) (1998-2001) Cleaner at the University of Bristol Union, Bristol, UK (2002) Mac Donald’s crew member, Bristol, UK (2002)

Miscellaneous

: - First aid certificate, crew member at the French Red Cross for two years (2000-2001) - Guitar player in a pop-rock band - Clean driving licence

References Pr. Abdel-Mjid NOURREDDINE Group leader CNRS-IN2P3/IPHC/DRS/RAMSES Doctor from the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg 23 rue du Loess, BP 28, 67 037 Strasbourg Cedex 2 FRANCE Tel: (+33/0) 38810 6576 Fax: (+33/0) 38810 6508 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Arthur PAPE Retired physicist Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley 13 cour Fernand Jaenger 67 200 Strasbourg FRANCE Tel: (+33/0) 388 306 147 Fax: (+33/0) 38810 6508 Email: [email protected]