Nicolas DIETRICH, Ph.D., age 39 years
Date of birth: June 12th, 1980
Nationality: French
CURRENT POSITION
2009 – Today: Associate Professor at INSA Toulouse – Chemical Engineering & Environment Department –Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI), Toulouse, France
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2018 Habilitation (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en Science – HDR), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT), Toulouse, France Title: “Étude de l’hydrodynamique et du transfert de matière aux interfaces gaz-liquide : Les outils de visualisation optiques au service de la modélisation en Génie des Procédés.”
2008 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France Title: “Étude locale et expérimentale des phénomènes interfaciaux”. Laboratoire des Sciences du Génie Chimique (LSGC), Nancy. Supervisor: Pr. Huai-Zhi LI & Dr. Souhila Poncin
2005 Engineering degree in Chemical Industries (Ingénieur des Industries Chimiques), École Nationale des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC), Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France
2005 Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and products, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2008 – 2009 Assistant professor (Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche), ENSIC, Nancy, France
2005 – 2008 Ph. D student, Funding from the French Ministry of Higher Education & Research, LSGC, Nancy, France.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2015 – today Head of the Master of Science in “Complex System Engineering” of University of Toulouse, INSA Toulouse, INP Toulouse, IMT Mines d’Albi, (2-year program, 480 ECTS credits, 50 students per year), Toulouse and Albi, France
2018 – today Co-Head of the “Multiphase Flow” research group of the FERMaT research federation (FR3089) involving 50 scientists and 30 PhD students in the Occitanie region (7 laboratories), Toulouse and Albi, France
2013 – today Co-Head of the master’s degree “Fluid Engineering for Industrial process”, (2-year program, 120 ECTS credits, 30 students per year), INSA Toulouse & INP Toulouse, France
2015 – today Head of the 4th year of engineering course in Chemical Engineering (60 ECTS credits, 50 students per year), INSA Toulouse, France
2012 – 2017 Head of the transition semester for international students of the n+i network, 25 students per year, INSA Toulouse, France
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS
12 PhD supervisions: Mélanie Jimenez (2010-2013), Abderhamme Kherbeche (2012-2015), David Benizri (2013-2016), Xiaomin Xie (2013-2017), Lixia Yang (2013-2017), Naila Bouyaed (2014-2017), Feishi Xu (2015-2019), Kritchart Wongwailikhit (2016-2019), Mei Mei (2017-2021), Gaelle Lebrun (2018-2021), Kalyani Kentheswaran (2018-2021), & Eliot Wantz (2019-2022).
5 PhD international PhD students hosted and co-supervised: Aldo Padilla (2012 – 3 months – Chile), David Mikaelian (2012 – 1 month – Belgium), Ly Tran (2013 – 5 months – Vietnam), Aida Ahmia Cherifa (2016 – 8 months – Algeria), Alexandra Buess (2018 – 1 month, Belgium)
5 Post-doctoral & research engineers: Jessica François (2010-2011), Benjamin Boulbène (2012), Loic Letner (2014), Francisco Felis (2017-2018) & Abdhermane Kherbeche (2018)
28 Master of Science supervisions: Carinna Hoppe (2019), Mohammed Farhat (2018), Masakusa Sugiyama (2018), R. N. Mancheno (2017), J.C. Molina Choque (2017), P. Samanta (2016), Anthony Cavalier (2016), Rania Hariz (2015), José Ignacio Del Rio Sanz (2014), Lorena Moura (2014), Victor Sousa (2014), Erij ben Slimene (2013), Mike Turnock (2013), Cristina López Martínez (2013), James Milnes (2012), Bounab El Hadi (2012), Maria Guadalupe Navarrete Tapia (2012), Oscar Conesa-Palacios (2011), Maria Perez (2011), Augusto Alejandro García Ciniselli (2010), Oussama Harrathi (2010), Junwei Qian (2009), Nadia Mayoufi (2008), Elodie Magné (2008), Amélie Michelle (2008), Silvia Pheulpin (2007), Laurent Richard (2007) & Amélie Pouplin (2006).
TEACHING ACTIVITIES [1800 hours]
2009 – today Associate professor, INSA Toulouse, France
250 hours/year: Heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, unit operation, chemical engineering design, absorption, separation, etc.
2008 – 2009 Assistant professor (Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche), ENSIC, Nancy, France
144 hours/year: Distillation, crystallization, mixing, fluids mechanics
2005 – 2008 Teaching assistant, Farmacy faculty, Université Henri Poincarré, Nancy, France
96 hours/year: Heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, unit operation, chemical engineering design, absorption, separation, etc.
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2019 Scientific Evaluator for the “Toulouse Tech Interlab” funding program, INSA-ISAE-INP Toulouse, France
2018 – 2022 Elected member at the Scientific Board, INSA Toulouse, France
2018 Scientific Evaluator for the “Toulouse University – APR PhD” funding program, France
2018 Scientific Evaluator for the “MITACS Accelerate research proposal”, Canada
2016 – 2018 Member of the Scientific Board, Research federation FERMaT, France
2015 Scientific Evaluator for the MITACS Accelerate research proposal, Canada
2015 – 2021 Elected member of the recruitment committee of the Chemical Engineering Department Board, INSA Toulouse, France
2014 – 2018 Elected member at the University Board, INSA Toulouse, France
2014 – 2018 Member of the Disciplinary Board, INSA Toulouse, France
2014 – 2018 Member of the Financial Board, INSA Toulouse, France
2012 – 2016 Elected member of the Chemical Engineering Department Board, INSA Toulouse, France
2012 – 2013 Member of the selection committee, INSA Toulouse and INPT Toulouse, France
2010 – today Reviewer for over 10 different Chemical Engineering journals and conferences (15/year)
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
French Laser Velocimetry Association – Association Francophone de Vélocimétrie Laser (A.F.V.L.)
French Institute of Chemical Engineering – Société Française de Génie des Procédés (S.F.G.P.)