Philippe Spätig

Mission Integrity assessment of nuclear reactor internals and of components of the primary coolant system, as well as of embrittlement of pressure vessel steels.Development of small specimen test techniques, non-destructive methods, and analytical and numerical analysis to determine materials properties evolution in harsh environments.Teaching for the Master in Nuclear Engineering and education of young scientists in the field of nuclear materials and fuel. Philippe Spätig is currently Adjunct Professor at EPFL in the School of Basic Sciences, in the Laboratory of Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviours. He obtained his diploma of Engineer Physicist at EPFL in 1991 and his PhD at EPFL in 1995 on the role of thermal activation in the plasticity of the intermetallic Ni3Al.From 1995 to 1997, he worked as postdoc in the Materials Group of the Center for Research in Plasma Physics at EPFL, studying the effects of high-energy proton irradiation on alloys and pure metals. He then moved to the University of California Santa Barbara and spent two years in the group of Professor G.R. Odette, working on fracture mechanics of ferritic structural steels.He joined again the Materials Group of the Center for Research in Plasma Physics at EPFL in 2000 and worked in this group until the end of 2012. His research was focused on irradiation hardening and embrittlement of steels, as well as on the development of oxide dispersion strengthened steels. He also worked and developed experimental and analytical small specimen test techniques to reliably extract mechanical properties from limited material volume.In 2013, he joined the Laboratory for Nuclear Materials at Paul Scherrer Institute, while being affiliated with the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and System Behaviours at EPFL. Since then he mainly works on environmentally-assisted fatigue and fracture on austenitic and pressure vessel steels, where the effects of light water reactor environment on mechanical properties are investigated. Education Physicist Engineer | Physics 1991 – 1991 EPFL - Switzerland PhD | Physical Metallurgy 1995 – 1995 EPFL - Switzerland Directed by Prof. J.-L. Martin Teaching & PhD PhD Students Rémi Martinie, Gabriel Artus Benedikt Brinkmann Past EPFL PhD Students Emiliano Campitelli, Raul Alejandro Bonadé, Pablo Federico Mueller, Per Magnusson, Nazar Ilchuk, Anna Prokhodtseva, Christiane Vieh, Kun Wang, Ignasi Villacampa Roses, Serafin Knitel, Zaiqing Que, Elvis Fornasiere, Wen Chen, Elif Cansu Kursun, Puyi Gao, Dongyang Jiang Courses Advanced topics in nuclear reactor materials ETH-530 To comprehend advanced aspects of materials science as applied to nuclear power (fission and fusion), to get acquainted with materials for advanced plants, advanced damage characterization and life-time assessments Effects of radiation on materials MSE-600 The purpose of this course is to provide the necessary background to understand the effects of irradiation on pure metals and on alloys used in the nuclear industry. The relation between the radiation-induced defects and the evolution of the mechanical properties is highlighted.