Siméon Nachev obtained his PhD at the University of Grenoble in 2015. He worked as a Postdoc at the University of Saskatchewan until 2017. In 2019, he joined the Centre de Métallurgie du Québec in Trois-Rivières as a researcher. His interests focus on the lightening of metal structures and the strengthening of the mechanical properties of alloys, the solid storage of hydrogen in metal hydrides and the design of hydrogen tanks as well as hydrogen embrittlement of metal infrastructure.