College of Science & Engineering

 

School/College	School of Engineering
Email	Lucile.chatellard@glasgow.ac.uk
Twitter	Lucile_Chlrd

Research vision

I dedicate my research to find sustainable solutions to reduce our waste and transform it into new resources that can be substituted to fossil resources. My vision is embedded in the circular economy concept for which a product is never considered as waste at the end of its life but as a new resource.

I deeply believe that all the processes we need to achieve that goal have already been created in nature and that mimicking them is one of the best options we have to reduce our environmental impact. I want to contribute to this goal by understanding, designing and optimising bioprocesses inspired by nature.

For now, I mainly focused on the conversion of organic wastes, such as agricultural residues and wastewater, by communities of microbes. During the bioprocess, microbes convert waste into microbe cells, but also into building blocks molecules that be used to create bio-sourced materials.  My research allows understanding how all these microbes work together to drive their biological activity to a specific purpose, such as the production of bioenergy, solvent, or bioplastic precursors.

I dream that by the end of my career, we will have changed our system toward a sustainable one, caring about ecosystems as a whole.

Expectations from collaboration

My research covers many disciplines, united to create sustainable environment. I am looking for collaborators around all these disciplines to provide full and global solutions to environmental issues.

I am looking for people who share my environmental concerns to directly apply my research in their field and develop biorefinery and circular economy concept with them. I am targeting collaborators in the fields of waste management, energy and material production, in both academia and industry. I also want to collaborate with NGOs and policy makers to make my research the most suitable for all communities.

As our problems are global, I believe that the solution is global too. For that reason, I am looking for international collaborations with no border limit.

I also want to collaborate with NGOs and policymakers to make my research the most suitable for all communities.

As our problems are global, I believe that the solution is global too. For that reason, I am looking for international collaborations with no border limit.

Key Skills

• Microbiology,
• bioprocess engineering

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First published: 7 May 2019