Group Alumni

**PhD Students

Name (nationality)

Present Position

Ph.D. Title Year
Emmanuelle Liger (France)

Environmental Scientist

Paper Industry, Sweden

Catalysis by mineral surfaces : The U(VI) reduction by sorbed Fe(II) case 1996
Uta Gabriel (Germany)

Research Fellow

Brisol University, UK

Reactive transport of U(VI) in sandy aquifer : LITRF and column experiments, and modeling 1998
Michel Schlegel (France)

Environmental Scientist

CEA Military Affairs, France

From adsorption of Co(II) on hectorite and quartz to the heterogeneous nucleation of phyllosilicates 2000
Arnaud Martin-Garin (France)

Environmental Scientist

IRSN, France

Cadmium transfer in a calcareous sandy aquifer ; AFM, column and field experiments : 2000
Crançon Pierre (France)

Environmental Scientist

CEA Military Affairs, France

Uranium transport in soils ; column experiments in high gravity fields 2000
Alix Peaudecerf (France)

Mother at home

Cation inhibition of apatite dissolution ; molecular dynamics and mineral stability 2002
Tanya Peretyashko (Ukraina)

Postdoc

Batelle, Washington

Hg cycle in French Guyana anoxic surface waters 2002
Christophe Tournassat (France)

Researcher, BRGM (France)

Clay surface chemistry : acid base properties and Fe(II) sorption 2003
Sudipta Chakraborty (India)

Lecturer, Kalyani Univ., India

Arsenic sorption on micas and mobilisation in Bengale Aquifer 2007
Stéphane Guédron (France)

Research Assistant, University of Geneva

Impact of gold mines on mercury contaminant fluxes 2008
André Burnol (France)

100%

Dissimilatory As release by Iron Reducing Bacteria 2009
Drissa Samaké (Mali)

50%

Decontamination by local clays of leather industry waste waters 2008
Alejandro Fernandez-Martinez

50%

Imogolite physics & Chemistry 2008

 

**Post-Docs

Name (nationality)

Present Position

Research Topic (Funding) Year
Ewen Silvester (Australia)

Professor

Univ. La Trobe, Australia

Oxidation of Cr(III) by buserite

(INRA)

1994
Uta Gabriel (Germany)

Researcher INRS-Géomatériaux

Canada

Reactive transport of BTEX in soils : diffusion experiments, and modeling

(GDF)

1998
Ahmad Ansari (India)

Project Manager

Eco-Tex, Germany

Arsenic Geochemistry in Ganga River delta sediments : field work and sorption experiments on micas (CEFIPRA) 1999-2001
Gabriela Roman-Ross (Argentina)

Researcher

University of Girona, Spain

Arsenic transfer in natural systems, and field experiments, PIXE and Neutron Scattering of As-calcite and As-gypsum solid solutions 2000-2002
Gabriela Roman-Ross (Argentina)

Researcher

University of Girona, Spain

Geochemistry of Prion affected soils (scrapie meadows) in Southern Europe (FATEPRIDE) 2003-2004
Mariette Wolthers (Netherlands)

Researcher (4 year contract)

University of Utrecht

Modeling of carbonate and bentonite surface chemistry ; experimental coprecipitation U(VI)-calcite (ANDRA) 2003 - 2005
Antoine Géhin (France)

Ingénieur

Chemistry of Fe(II)-clay interaction ; Mössbauer spectroscopy (ANDRA) 2003 – 2006
Christelle Hureau (France)

Chercheur

CEA

ESR Spectroscopy and ES-ICPMS of Cu(II)- and Mn(III)-prion protein complex (FATEPRIDE) 2004 – 2005
Emilie Chalmin (France)

Responsable de ligne

ESRF (ID-21)

Geomicrobiology and laser induced fluorescence of calcite growth on prehistorical rock art (PNRPC) 2005
Catherine Noiriel (France)

Maître de Conf. Uni. Lille

Impuretés (métaux, ligands) et précipitation de la calcite (ANR CO2) 2006
Rafael Perez Lopez (Spain)

Researcher (Lisbonne)

As-ich Feoxide based stromatholithes (µXAFS, µFluoX) and their As release over time upon ponding (Univ. Huelva) 2006-2007
Fabienne Favre

(Switzerland)

Réactivité du fer structural des argiles (SNF) 2006-2007
German Montes-Hernandez

(Mexico)

Se(VI), Se (IV), Selenocystine

impact on calcite growth (ANR CO2)

2006-2007
Gabriela Aurelio

(Argentina)

As(V), Se(VI), Se (IV), Eu(II) and Mn(II) substitution in calcite : DFT model (CONICET) 2007
Oleg Sobolev

(Russia)

Hydration and Hydrolysis of radionucleides in clay interlayers ; neutron scattering (FUNMIG) 2005-end 2009
Ludmilla Aristilde

(USA and Haiti)

Ternary antibiotics-Me-clay complexes

(Me = Ca(II), Fe(II))

(FULLBRIGHT)

2008-present
Laura Leone Sorption offilhydrogen on clay minearals. (ANDRA) 2008-2009
Daiki Takano X-Ray Tomography of fractured clay with circulating Se° banoparticle rich solutions (ANDRA) 2008-2009
Lenny Winkel 2009-2010
Sylvain Grangeon 2011
Antoine Géhin 2008-2013
Chris Parson 2011