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Elodie Passeport is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Environmental Engineering and Stable Isotopes. Passeport is cross-appointed in the departments of Civil and Mineral Engineering, and Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. Passeport obtained her PhD from AgroParisTech in France in 2010 for which she received the PHYTOPHARMA industry-sponsored (BAYER) Award for best Ph.D. Thesis. Passeport was a post-doctoral fellow in the Plant and Microbial Biology department at the University of California, Berkeley (2011-2012) and then in the Earth Sciences department at the University of Toronto (2012-2014). Her research focuses on environmental remediation of contaminated surface- and groundwater in urban, agricultural, and industrial settings. Her approach is to characterize the transfer and transformation mechanisms that govern the fate and removal of contaminants in natural and engineered aquatic environments to inform design and operation of environmental remediation strategies, such as natural attenuation in contaminated groundwater, and green infrastructure such as bioretention cells and constructed wetlands. Passeport’s group develop new methods based on stable isotopes to help track contaminant fate in the environment. Passeport received the Bill Burgess Teacher of the Year Award for Large Classes from the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto (2018), the Early Career Teaching Award from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (2020), and the Ontario Early Researcher Award (2021).

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Visiting Researcher, HydroSciences Research Unit
    University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France2020 - 2021
  • Adjunct Faculty, School of the Environment
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2019 - present
  • Adjunct Faculty
    Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada2017 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD, Water Sciences
    AgroParisTech, Paris, France
  • MSc, Continental Environment
    AgroParisTech, France
  • Master 2, Continental Biosphere
    Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
  • MSc, Chemical Engineering
    National Institute of Applied Sciences, Toulouse, France

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    UC Berkeley, United States

LANGUAGES

  • French
  • Spanish; Castilian

AVAILABILITY

  • Industry Projects
  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

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