Assistant Professor - Université Paris-Est Créteil

LEESU - Université Paris-Est Créteil, École des ponts ParisTech, AgroParisTech

1. Contact

Contact: julien.le-roux(AT)u-pec.fr

Phone: +33(0)1 82 39 20 80

Address: Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, MSE 307, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), 61 avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94010 Créteil Cedex

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2. Research themes

• Characterization and reactivity of natural waters, wastewater and organic micropollutants with oxidants used in water treatment. Studies about formation mechanisms of disinfection byproducts (especially nitrogenous ones, e.g., NDMA, haloacetamides) during chloramination, chlorination or ozonation of natural waters or wastewaters as well as organic pollutants and model compounds.
• Organic pollutants in surface waters and wastewaters. Degradation mechanisms of organic pollutants and identification of transformation products (GC-MS and LC-MS analyses, high resolution mass spectrometry).
• Transfer and transformation of organic micropollutants in urban systems: comprehension, quantification and modeling. Modeling transport and degradation mechanisms of organic pollutants in the urban aquatic environment based on in situ measurements, pilots experiments or microcosms.

3. Current research

• Tertiary treatment of organic micropollutants in wastewater effluents
  - Carboplus project (SIAAP - SAUR): performances of an industrial activated carbon pilot in fluidized bed for the removal of organic micropollutants
  - Potential use of ozone coupled to activated carbon
  - Identification of degradation products (high resolution mass spectrometry)
  - action R2.5 of the OPUR program about wastewater treatment by oxidation(ozonation, UV photolysis, peracids). PhD thesis supervision (Christelle Nabintu Kajoka).
• Analytical chemistry
  - Screenatm’eau project: Method developpement of non-target screening for the analysis of micropollutants by liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry at the interface water/atmosphere
  - ANR WaterOmics project: Characterization of urban organic by high resolution mass spectrometry. Supervision of PhD thesis (Nina Huynh)
  - action R2.6 and O2 theme of the OPUR program : Lon-term characterization of wastewater by non-targert analyses (high resolution mass spectrometry)
• Pollutants behavior in urban systems
  - ReFUJ project: PICRI Transformation of a urban brownfield to a park. Study of organic pollutants transfer from the soil to underground water. Simulations in column experiments and influence of hydrological conditions.
  - Roulépur project: Adsorption isotherms of organic micropollutants (alkylphenols and bisphenol A) on soil from a sustainable urban drainage system

4. Current Teaching

• Courses and seminars of environmental physico-Chemistry (Undergraduate Licence 3 Physics-Chemistry, 1st year Master’s degree Environmental Sciences and Engineering, 2nd year Master’s degree Aquatic Systems and Water Management), tutor of field classes (M1 SGE).
• Atoms and molecules, general chemistry (undergraduate Licence 1, UPEC)
• Statistics (undergraduate Licence 2 Chemistry-Biology, UPEC), Satistics and computer tools (M2 SAGE)
• Industrial chemistry, distillation (Licence 3 Chemistry-Biology)
• Chemistry and electrochemistry (Ion Specific Electrodes), liquid chromatography, bibliographic review projects in English (Master 2 Analysis and Quality Assurance)
• Co-director of Master’s degree Analysis and Quality Assurance (AAQ) (chemistry)

5. Collective involvement

• Member of the organization committee of the conferences "Environmental Science Days", co-organized by Université Paris-Est Créteil (OSU Efluve) and Val de Marne department.
• Member of the scientific committee of the scientific congress "Water Information Days" organized by APTEN association in Poitiers (France)
• Member of the APTEN association bureau (secretary). APTEN is the alumni association of water treatment engineers from ENSI Poitiers engineering school.

6. Professional background

Scientific production, on HAL-ENPC, ordered by type