Nelly Chagneux

- Leader of the R&D laboratory and responsible for the safety regulation inside the laboratory
- Management of technicians and coordination of activities of the multidisciplinary R&D team
- Planification, organisation and follow-up of activities ; decision of actions to do in function of priority in the company (formulation, tests and evaluations of products in laboratory or by the customers)
- Make the connection between the R&D team and the commercial one
- Representation of the company and advertisement of our R&D in front of our customers and during conferences
- Patents follow-up and updates (connection zith our patent attorney)
- Writting of reports and summarise our activities and resultst to the board meeting
- Look for new customers
- Look for new partners for fundings of R&D projects
- Look for industrial partners to scale-up our polymer products
- Detection and planification of new research opportunities/innovative applications
- Follow-up of new litterature and patents

Functions :

to design and to carry out experiments
to determine and to prioritize the objectives
to report on the results
to write the argumentary of patent
to do the technological watching

Scientific competences :

Controlled radical polymerisation
Ring-opening polymerization
Functionalization of alcoxyamines (organic synthesis)
Liquid chromatography of polymer at critical conditions
Size exclusion chromatography
IR, NMR, MALDI-TOF, ESI-MS, ESR and elementar analysis
- TEM, SAXS, DSC

Management :
to lead the organisation of the library in our lab
to supervise a Bachelor trainee

Results :
2 publications, 5 presentations in scientific conferences and 1patent
- extrapolation of laboratory syntheses on small industrial scale

Functions:

- to carry out the experiments
- to report on the results
- to do technology watching

Scientific competences:

- block copolymer synthesis by radical polymeristion and ring-opening polymerization

Results: 1 publication and 1 presentation

Functions :

- to carry out the experiments

Project : synthesis of biological active compounds as insecticide (organic chemistry)

Functions :

-to carry out the experiments
-to report on the results

Project : Synthesise of hardener for two-components polyurethane coatings for car refinisching

- analyze raw materials, intermediate and final products in cellular concrete industry
- communicate between the analytical staff and the production staff