Prof. Serge Stoll currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at Department F.-A. Forel for environmental and aquatic sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He received his PhD in Physical Chemistry by working in the field of soft matter science at the University Louis Pasteur, France. After joining Professor Buffle's research group in the department of analytical, inorganic, and applied chemistry at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, he became a senior scientist. Then he was promoted to senior lecturer, teaching environmental, soft-condensed, and analytical chemistry to undergraduate and graduate students in chemistry, environmental sciences, and general chemistry in medicine. Then he moved to the Department Forel in the field of aquatic and environmental sciences and takes an active part in the development of the Institute of Environmental Sciences in Geneva. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications in reference international journals, four book chapters, including numerous invited papers. He is also part of different environmental non-governmental organizations (ASL, Odysseus 3.1, etc), scientific selection and reviewing committees, is a co-editor in various journals, and is regularly invited to participate in international conferences and press interviews.
Prof. John Poté currently serves as a Research Scientist in Microbial Ecology and Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Geneva, Forel Institute, Versoix, Switzerland (since 2004). He received his Bachelor's degree in Sciences from the Université de Kinshasa in 1991 and his PhD degree from the University of Geneva in 2004. Prof. Poté served as an Assistant at the University of Bangui/RCA from 1995 to 1998 and as an Assistant at the University of Geneva, Forel Institute from 2000 to 2004. H
is a supervisor and co-director of PhD thesis and Master diploma dissertations. His interdisciplinary research on various fields includes the identification and evaluation of potential impacts of organic and inorganic pollutants including micropollutants, antibiotics, heavy metals, PCBs, HAPs,
and pathogenic organisms in the aquatic environment, the fate and risk of genetically modified plants in the environment, and the characterization of 16S and 18S of prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities on sediment profiles for evaluation of climate change.
Prof. Philippe Le Coustumer currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Université de Bordeaux and as a Senior Researcher at the INSERM US04 Bordeaux Imaging Center (BIC), Bordeaux, France. He obtained a Scientific DEUG from the University of Rennes in 1979, a Licence in General Geography from the University of Montpellier in 1984, a Master’s degree in Composite Materials Engineering from the University of Bordeaux in 1987, and a PhD from the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour in 1991. He joined the geology department of the University of Poitiers in 1993 as a lecturer. In 2000, he joined the University of Bordeaux in Science and Technology to study the fate of trace elements and nanoparticles in continental waters. From 2003 to 2011, he was in charge of international relations for the Earth and
Environmental Sciences Department of the University of Bordeaux. From 2015 to 2022, he was appointed as an expert of the French Standardisation System (SFN). From January 2017 to January 2022, he served as a Senior Researcher at the Bordeaux Imaging Center of the University of Bordeaux. He has been a member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) since November 2008. His main research areas include materials science, material characterization, nanoparticles, mineralogy, geochemistry, electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and environment.
