The Hubert Curien pluridisciplinary Institute (IPHC) has been involved since several years in research projects related to the decommissioning of nuclear facilities and particle accelerators, more specifically in the characterization of radioactive waste for waste management. The post-doctoral fellow will be part of the Radiochemistry team and will work in close collaboration with the DeSIs team (Dosimetry Simulation Instrumentation) of the IPHC. He/she will be in charge of the methodological development of the quantification of Difficult-To-Measure (DTM) radionuclides in decommissioning waste, in particular metallic waste. He/she will carry out experimental work on the separation/quantification of DTMs in activated metals, as well as simulations using Monte-Carlo codes to predict the amount of DTMs (such as Tc-99, Ni-63, Fe-55) in target metals.

• Bibliographic research of separation methods for DTM radionuclides (conventional and exotic) in the context of decommissioning
• Taking charge of the experimental set-up for the development of separation methods and quantification of DTM radionuclides in the selected metals
• Use of Monte-Carlo simulation codes (Geant4, MCNP, ...) to simulate the quantity of DTM radionuclides in materials produced by neutron activation
• Writing of research notes and publications
• Participation to conferences and workshops

The Hubert Curien pluridisciplinary Institute, a joint research unit under the joint supervision of the CNRS and the University of Strasbourg (UMR7178), is a multidisciplinary laboratory where research teams from different scientific backgrounds (ecology, physiology and ethology, chemistry and subatomic physics) develop very high-level programs based on scientific instrumentation. The IPHC is structured in 4 departments and has in total 393, including 257 permanent staff (119 researchers and 138 engineers and technicians), 46 staff on fixed-term contracts and 102 doctoral students.
The post-doctoral fellow will be under the supervision of Dr Lu Liu, junior professor at the Radiochemistry-IPHC and Dr Nicolas Arbor, lecturer at the DeSIs-IPHC.