Bachelor and Master students can make use of SCK•CEN’s expertise and facilities to prepare their thesis.
Although most topics available are focusing on nuclear science and technology, also students with other background and/or qualifications can apply via this website. Please note that your application will only be considered when we have received all necessary documents via our web-based application system.
Available topics
Take a look at the available topics.
SCK•CEN grants an annual award (worth 1500 and 1000 euro resp.) to the authors of the best and second best Master thesis performed at our laboratories.
Laureates
Academic year 2010-2011
1. Marc Deprez
For his work "Effect of Post-Irradiation Annealing on Defects in Irradiated Model Alloys by Means of Positron Annihilation Coincidence Doppler Broadening Spectroscopy"
SCK•CEN mentor: Marlies Lambrecht
Assessors: Jacqueline Lecomte-Beckers (ULg) and Luc Dupré (UGent)
University promoter: Eric van Walle (KULeuven)
2. An Mariën
For her thesis on "Development and calibration of electrochemical oxygen sensors for application to low temperature regions in liquid lead alloys cooled reactors"
SCK•CEN mentor: Jun Lim and Kris Rosseel
Assessors: Prof. Jacqueline Lecomte-Beckers (ULg) and Prof. Walter Bogaerts (KULeuven)
University promoter: Prof. Peter Baeten (VUB)
Academic year 2009-2010
1. Steven Peetermans: "Windowless spallation target - Proton beam interaction study in the MYRRHA reactor"
2. Guillaume Bousselin: "Validation of a planar probe diagnostics for plasmatron VISIONI and its application for the study of deuterium retention in tungsten"
Academic year 2008-2009
1. Jérémy Debast: "Investigation of the Gamma-radiation effects on recoated fiber Bragg gratings"
2. Ciaran Cleary: "Safeguard Analysis of Material Flows in a Gas Centrifuge Plant"
Academic year 2007-2008
1. Ruben Van Marcke: "ALARA research on BR2/SIDONIE"
2. Julien Hautefeld: "Etude des conditions spatiales sur le développement embryonnaire de la souris"