Qualifications
- Engineer in Civil and Rural Technology – France (1983)
- Master in Fluid Mechanics – University of Strasbourg (1984)
- Ph.D. – University of Strasbourg I in Water Sciences and Technologies (1987)
- “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” – University of Strasbourg (1993)
- Research fellow at EAWAG – ETH Zurich (CH) (Profs. W. Stumm and L. Sigg) (1988-1990)
- Research fellow at CNRS (1989-2000)
Achievements
- Körber prize for “promotion of the European science” with Profs. W. Kinzelbach (Heidelberg), L. Luckner (Dresden), R. Schwarzenbach & L. Sigg (EAWAG – ETH Zürich) (field of technology and physic and natural sciences) for research on “Propagation and migration of pollutions of ground waters”. Körber Foundation (Hamburg), September 1992.
- INP INNOV’ award for publishing the text book « Chimie et environnement », 3rd edition of INP INNOV’, June 2013, INP-ENSIACET.
Research interests
- Water and aquatic chemistry (analytical chemistry and dynamic speciation applied to environmental systems; trace metals or metalloids (mercury, silver, organotin, cadmium, arsenic…), groundwater, sensors…), reactive transport (modelling…)
- Reactivity at solid-gas-liquid interfaces (surface analyses, sorption, physicochemical modelling, metals, CO2 and CH4 in coals…)
- Role of water in food chemistry (application to tea preparation)
- Analytical chemistry: development of microsensors for in situ dynamic speciation of trace contaminants
Publications
- Behra, Ph., Sigg, L., 1990. Evidence for redox cycling of iron in atmospheric water droplets. Nature 344, 419-421.
- Bonnissel-Gissinger, P., Alnot, M., Ehrhardt, J.J., Behra, Ph., 1998. Surface oxidation of pyrite as a function of pH. Environ. Sci. Technol. 32, 2839-2845.
- Bueno, M., Astruc, A., Astruc, M., Behra, Ph., 1998. Dynamic sorptive behavior of tributyltin on quartz sand at low concentration levels: Effect of pH, flow rate, and monovalent cations. Environ. Sci. Technol. 32, 3919-3925.
- Loyaux-Lawniczak, S., Douch, J., Behra, Ph., 1999. Optimisation of Analytical Detection of EDTA by HPLC for Natural Waters. Fresenius’ Journal Analytical Chemistry 364, 727-731.
- Behra, Ph., Bonnissel-Gissinger, P., Alnot, M., Revel, R., Ehrhardt, J.J., 2001. XPS and XAS study of the sorption of Hg(II) onto pyrite. Langmuir 17, 3970-3979.
- Buerge-Weirich, D., Hari, R., Xue, H., Behra, Ph., Sigg, L., 2002. Adsorption of Cu, Cd and Ni on goethite in the presence of natural groundwater ligands. Environ. Sci. Technol. 36, 328-336.
- Lièvremont, D., N’Negue, M.A., Behra, Ph., Lett, M.C., 2003. Biological oxidation of arsenite: batch reactor experiments in presence of kutnahorite and chabazite. Chemosphere 51, 419-428.
- Carrayrou, J., Mosé, R., Behra, P., 2004. Operator-splitting procedures for reactive transport and comparison of mass balance errors. J. Contaminant Hydrol., 68, 239-268.
- Mossion, A., Potin-Gautier, M., Delerue, S., Le Hécho, I., Behra, Ph., 2007. Effect of water composition on aluminium, calcium and organic carbon extraction in tea infusion. Food Chemistry 106, 1467-1475.
- Hezard, T., Fajerwerg, K., Evrard, D., Collière, V., Behra, P., Gros, P., 2012. Gold nanoparticles electrodeposited on glassy carbon using cyclic voltammetry: Application to Hg(II) trace analysis. J. Electroanal. Chem., 664, 46-52.
Books
Behra, Ph. (ed.), 2013. Chimie et environnement. Dunod, Paris. Sigg, L., Behra, Ph., Stumm, W., 2014. Chimie des Milieux Aquatiques. 5th ed., Dunod, Paris.