Lucie Coudert

Lucie Coudert has been an assistant professor at the Institut de recherche en mines et environnement (IRME) at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) since January 2018. With a master's degree in chemistry and a doctorate in environmental science, she worked as a research associate at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique for 4 years before joining the IRME-UQAT team. From 2013 to 2018, her research focused on the development of hydrometallurgical processes to recover value-added elements, including certain critical and strategic metals (CSMs), present in different types of matrices (treated wood waste, contaminated soils, electronic waste, contaminated effluents). As holder of the Tier 2 Research Chair in Mine Waste Reprocessing since 2019, his work focuses primarily on the development of (bio)hydrometallurgical processes to recover precious metals and certain SCMs, present in mine and metallurgical waste, with a view to maximizing the exploitation of mineral resources. It also works on the development of mineralurgical and/or extractive metallurgical separation processes to transform mining or metallurgical waste into value-added by-products that can be valorized on the mine site (e.g., mine reclamation) or off-site (e.g., commercial value by-products). Its work also focuses on the treatment of heavily contaminated mine effluents, with a view to stabilizing problematic elements or adding value to value-added elements.