Elena Gascon Diez
Dr Elena Gascon Diez
Ancienne Post-doctorante en biogéochimie du mercure dans les sédiments et particules en suspension lacustres. Responsable de laboratoire mercure. Auparavant doctorante et collaboratrice scientifique en géologie environnemental et limnologie - sédimentologie, métaux trace, biogéochimie du mercure, particules en suspension, matière organique et biologie moléculaire. Actuellement :
Ancienne collaboratrice du Département F.-A. Forel des sciences de l’environnement et de l’eau
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
June 2009 |
University of Geneva, F.-A. Forel Institute, Environmental Geochemistry PhD student |
July 2008 - July 2009 |
Associate Chemical analyst ROLEX S.A. Laboratories, Geneva, Switzerland. Analysis of heavy metals. |
April 2008 |
Field mission to Decazeville, France, as part of a European Union project to monitor water pollution levels. |
July 2006 |
Field mission to the North Atlantic on the oceanographic boat “Cornide de Saavedra”, belonging to the Spanish Oceanographic Institute, as part of a study on climatic variability in ocean waters. |
EDUCATION
2007-2008 |
ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECT IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT University of Geneva. Subject: Analysis of chemical pollutants (heavy metals) in freshwater. |
2002-2007 |
BACHELOR + MASTER IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, University of Alcala de Henares, Madrid. |
ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
- ICP-EOS « Perkin Elmer Optima 4300DV
- Voltamety : Macro et Micro Electrodes
- Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
- Potentiometric tritator « Mettler DL77 titrator»
- UV-Vis « Spectro Flex 6600 »
- Total Organic Carbon Analyzer « TOC-5000A »
- Mineralization « Multiwave Anton Paar (Perkin Elmer) »
- Distillation
LANGUAGES
- SPANISH : Mother tongue
- FRENCH : fluent
- ENGLISH : fluent
COMPLEMENTARY EDUCATION
- Informatique: ArcGIS ; STATGRAPHICS ; SPSS ; EXCEL ; WORD
- Course " Water and Environmental Sanitation Project in Emergency and Development Cooperation " University of Alcalá de Hernares, Madrid.
- Conferences of Rural Development, Faculty of Environmental Sciences of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.
OTHERS
- Open Water SSI (Scuba Schools International) Diver Certification
- Driving license: B, A, A1
- Driving license boats coastline and lakes