Nicolas Meunier

Defence & Space | Funding Your Innovation at Deloitte Belgium

Wavre, Walloon Region, Belgium

About

Experience

  • Deloitte (Zaventem, Flemish Region, Belgium)
    • Senior Manager - Global Investment & Innovation Incentives (GI³)
      Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

      - Focusing on Defense and Space industries. - Defense Tech Scale-up Ecosystem Leader within Deloitte Belgium (for Start-ups and SME). - Funding of innovation investments through national and European grants and incentives. - IP landscaping and strategy to identify niche and patents opportunities.

    • Manager - Global Investment & Innovation Incentives (Gi³)
      Sep 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs

    • Experienced Senior Consultant - Global Investment & Innovation Incentives (Gi³)
      Dec 2020 - Aug 2021 · 9 mos

  • Co-Founder at Novalys Consulting
    Jun 2020 - Dec 2020 · 7 mos

    Advice and assistance for entreprises: - Identification of eligible R&D activities for national grants and incentives - Identification of energy efficiency improvments and their deployment - Assessment of GHG emissions and opportunities to reduce them - Assessment of strategic management towards carbon neutrality - Share of technical and economical knowledge of industrial sectors and CCUS opportunities

  • Deloitte Belgium (Zaventem, Flandre, Belgique)
    • Experienced Senior Consultant - Global Investment & Innovation Incentive (Gi³)
      Sep 2019 - Jul 2020 · 11 mos

      Advice and assistance for clients: - Identification of eligible R&D activities for national and European grants and incentives - Elaboration of I.P. landscaping within the industrial sectors to identify niche and patents opportunities - Share of technical and economical knowledge of industrial sectors and CCUS opportunities

    • Senior Consultant - Global Investment & Innovation Incentive (Gi³)
      Nov 2018 - Aug 2019 · 10 mos

  • Research Fellow at F.R.S. - FNRS
    Sep 2013 - Oct 2018 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    - Collaboration with the European Cement Research Academy (ECRA), HeidelbergCement and the European School of Catalyst, Polymers and Materials (ECPM) of Strasbourg (France). Development and optimization of sustainable solutions for the reduction of CO2 emissions in the industry: - Identification of state-of-the-art technologies and currrent R&D trends within the industry sector - Assessment of the technical feasability of CO2 capture and conversion processes (simulations in Aspen Plus) - Assessment of the economic viability of CO2 capture and conversion processes (simulations in Aspen Economics) - Optimization of industrial processes (CAPEX/OPEX minimization, heat & mass integration, productivity enhancement, etc.) - Life cycle analysis (LCA) of CO2 capture and conversion processes to evaluate their "real" environmental benefits - Share of technical and economical knowledge of CCUS opportunities through trainings, seminars, consortia, etc. - Strategic advise on pertinent sustainable solutions for industrial partners of the cement sector (HeidelbergCement, Italcementi, VDZ, etc.) Development and evaluation of innovative adsorbents/catalysts for the capture and conversion of CO2 into methanol: - Development of improved procedures for adsorbents/catalysts synthesis and shaping - Experimental investigation of adsorbents/catalysts to evaluate their physical and chemical properties used in simulations