Marco Caceci, Dr. Rer. Nat.

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05/88 - 05/90: Foreign Expert (Ingenieur, Contract Temporaire Etranger)

Commissariat á l´Energie Atomique, Departement Recherche et Development sur les Dechets, Service Etudes Stockage Dechets: CEA-DRDD-SESD/FAR, bat. 52, B.P. 6, F-92265 Fontenay-aux-Roses CEDEX, France. Alain Billon, supervisor.
Responsibility for students and staff training, program and laboratory management, and international relations.
Research and review activity on the fundamental and applied chemistry of the transuranic elements, with emphasis on their behavior in waters and soils. Study of colloid formation, evolution and role in metal transport in the environment.
Built High Sensitivity High Resolution Double Beam Diode Array Fiber Optic Spectrophotometer, with High Temperature (300 C) High Pressure Cell, for thermodynamic investigations of actinide complexation. Applied Time Resolved Laser Fluorescence Excitation Spectroscopy to the study of chemistry of Curium; Photon Correlation Spectroscopy to the determination of size, shape and surface charge of colloidal particles.
Participated in CEE COCO (COlloids and COmplexation) club within EC project MIRAGE (Migration Radionuclides in Geosphere).

11/86 - 04/88: Staff Scientist

Institüt für Radiochemie, Technische Universität München, W. Meissner Str., D-8046 Garching, Germany.
Gunnar Buckau, supervisor.
Research on the fundamental and applied chemistry of the transuranic elements, with emphasis on their interaction with environmental organic matter (humic and fulvic acids).
Responsibility for students and staff training and laboratory management. Responsibility for CEE and BMFT research project for the characterization and study of groundwater organic matter. Coordinated multilaboratory analytics (ICP, NAA, UV-Vis, IR, HPIC, HPLC etc.).
Developed automated HPLC system for MW analysis of humic/fulvic matter, and related software.
Americium recovery and purification from lab waste (gram amounts).
Operations on PC-AT and on VAX systems: C and Pascal programming, IEEE-488 bus control of instrumentation, deconvolution/processing of spectra, statistical processing of analytical data, modeling of environmental systems.

10/84 - 10/86: Chargé de Recherche au C.N.R.S.

Institut Curie, Section de Physique et de Chimie, Laboratoire Curie, 11, Rue Pierre & Marie Curie, 75231 Paris CEDEX. Monique Pages, Director.
Chemistry of the actinide elements. Research on the interaction of tracer and macro amounts of actinide elements (mostly Np) in different oxidation states with humic and fulvic acids and other model compounds.
Methods developed include spectrophotometry (built fast, precise, glove-box diode array spectrometer, wrote spectra deconvolution codes), ultrafiltration, potentiometry. Data acquisition and processing on PCs (Pascal, Forth) with IEEE-488 interface, and on VME bus computers under VersaDos, 68K Assembler (Motorola).

01/81 - 05/84: Post-doctoral Research Associate

Florida State University, Chemistry Department, Nuclear Chemistry Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. Prof. Gregory R. Choppin, Director.
Research: chemistry of the actinides; thermodynamics of solutions, complexation, synergism in solvent extraction.
Teached general chemistry (101). Managed radiochemistry laboratory, purchases and maintened instrumentation and computers.
Left because of expiration of J-1 visa.

01/79 - 12/80: Post-doctoral Research Grant (`Stipendiat´), Commission of the European Communities

Joint Research Centre (Euratom), European Institute for the Transuranic Elements, Nuclear Research Centre, Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany. Hennig Bokelund, Supervisor, Werner Müller, Director.
Trained in analytical techniques for nuclear materials and in nuclear chemistry.
Worked (project `Recarb´) on the reprocessing of advanced carbide, carbonitride fast-breeder fuels.
Ideated and built computer controlled system for fuel dissolution studies. Improved high precision wet analytical methods for uranium and plutonium Ideated and proved photochemical reprocessing method for carbide fuel dissolver solutions.
Contract renewed a second year, offered for third. Left to follow Gregory R. Choppin in Tallahassee.