Nathalie Chèvre (Head of the group) – personal website
contact: nathalie.chevre[at]unil.ch
Imene Benali (invited Post-doc)
Imene and our group collaborate for more than 5 years. Imene is assessing the impact of pollutant in Algeria by measuring biomarkers in different types of mussels.
Imene is working at the University USTO/MB at Oran, Algeria.
Etienne Delaloye (Master)
Etienne aims in understanding the contribution of the swiss Golf to the pollution of surface waters by phytosanitary products. His work will first evaluate by modelling the golf courses that contribute the more to the pollution. It will be followed by a field-based campaign focusing on a specific gols course, with the idea of measuring this pollution.
Raffaele Holecz (Master)
Raffaele is conducting research on the behaviour and the effects of explosives in soil, focusing on the use of bioremediation to understand how a mixture of explosives is transformed by the action of bacteria. He is also conducting ecotoxicological analysis with Daphnia magna in parallel to assess the toxicity of products from the degradation of explosives, thus providing crucial information on the environmental impact of these compounds.
Yan Oestreicher (Master)
Yan is evaluating the impact of vineyard fungicides on copper levels in three rivers, each representing different wine-growing regions of the Lake Geneva area (La Côte ; Lavaux ; Chablais). Using GIS, he selects these rivers and conducts field sampling. Water and sediment samples are then analyzed in the laboratory to estimate the annual copper input into Lake Geneva.
Floriane Tisserand (PhD)
Floriane is assessing the effects of chemicals on microcrustacea like daphnids. She is investigating the life history traits (i.e. survival and growth) as well as the effects at the biochemical level.
Assiata Traore Dosso (PhD)
Assiata is assessing the fate and behaviour, as weel as the environmental and health impact of chemicals used for gold extraction. She focuses her study on the mines situated in the region of Hiré (Southern Ivory Cost). See « mine d’or ou mine de malheur«
Matteo Zarriati (Master)
Matteo is studying the impact of a river revitalisation on the water quality. His work is based on field sampling and laboratory analysis of various physico-chemical and biological parameters. The study will be carried out on a small river in the Canton of Ticino