Dr. Delphine Vantelon
Scientist in environmental geochemistry, I obtained my PhD in 2001 at the LEM (Nancy, France) on the links between the macroscopic properties of clays and their structural organization. I then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the ETHZ (Zürich, Switzerland) where I focused on heavy metal pollution in soils. In 2003, I joined the team of scientists of the LUCIA beamline at SOLEIL synchrotron, dedicated to X-ray fluorescence and absorption (micro) spectroscopy in the soft X-ray domain. I became its manager in 2013. I continue my research work oriented to the transfer of metallic contaminants in the different compartments of the critical zone, in relation with the structural properties of the carrier.