Professor Position at the ENSG (http://www.ensg.univ-lorraine.fr/) Lorraine University Field : Environmental Physical Chemistry Starting date : 01/09/2014 Teaching tasks : The ENSG is part of Lorraine University. This National Graduate School (‘Grande Ecole Scientifique’) delivers engineer diploma to ca. 120 students per year, covering a large spectrum of the field of Geosciences. The school has strong connections with industries on applied geosciences. The successful candidate will join a team of 39 teachers/researchers and she/he will be the only one with the Professor status in the field of Environmental Science. She/he will develop her/his research activities in the Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Continental Environments (LIEC), member of the OTELO laboratory consortium that represents the second largest research center in Geosciences in France with more than 450 agents and a research budget of more than 15 Millions euros per year. The candidate must be qualified to be allowed to candidate for the Professor position, she/he must have passed the ‘Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches’ or an equivalent thereof, she/he must have a solid experience in research and teaching in science, and technology of the Environment. The candidate will give practical courses and lectures in her/his field of expertise to 1st and 2nd year students at the ENSG. In addition, the candidate will have to prepare and provide courses in the field of Environment, especially in environmental physical-chemistry, chemistry of natural waters, soil science, remediation technology and environmental diagnosis. The candidate will be expected to reorganize the teaching of professional activities connected to Environmental Science at ENSG, in interaction with other structures composing Lorraine University. She/he must have organization skills and leadership. She/he will contribute to the collective tasks of management of ENSG. Her/his involvement in the supervision of training field courses is also expected. Keywords : Environmental geochemistry, Physical chemistry, Environmental sciences, Continental surfaces.

Research profile : Dynamics of transfer of contaminants in aquatic media, and physical-chemistry of natural interfaces. The fate over space and time of organic and inorganic contaminants (metals, pesticides, pharmaceutical residues) in waters and soils is not only governed by the physicochemical features of these anthropogenic compounds but also by their very interactions with the various mineral, organic and/or biological colloids composing natural aquatic media. Therefore, in order to better capture and predict the dynamics of transfer processes involving contaminants and natural interfaces, it is mandatory to (i) develop a mechanistic analysis of the relevant interactions at various scales, with including therein a detailed investigation of the interfacial properties of the relevant colloids (structure, texture, chemical and physical heterogeneities) and (ii) identify and classify the processes leading to interaction between contaminants and colloids. The choice of colloids and contaminants will have to be motivated by solid knowledge on natural media. It would be highly welcome to connect results obtained on model and natural systems. This research position proposed by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Continental Environments (LIEC, UMR 7360) is aimed at reinforcing the activities led in the lab in the field of environmenal physical chemistry, especially the analysis of interfacial properties of colloids (model and natural minerals, organics and biosurfaces) in connection with their reactivity toward contaminants. The activity of the candidate will benefit from the expertise of the group and from that of the laboratory as a whole. It will be conducted in close interaction with research programs of the LIEC but also those of the scientific center OTELO (Zone Atelier du bassin de la Moselle, Observatoire Pérenne en Environnement de Bure, Labex Ressources 21….). The candidate is expected to integrate one or two scientific fields of the LIEC and take part or coordinate multidisciplinary research programs at the local, national and international levels. She/he must be an international leading scientific authority and will have in mind the transfer of her/his academic research results toward stakeholders and agencies in charge of environmental issues. She/he will contribute to strengthen the position of the LIEC within regional university structures via a strong involvement in the research and teaching projects of the newly created Lorraine University. Laboratory name (French) : Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux / Site Charmois, Vandœuvre-les-Nancy UMR 7360 Keywords : Environmental physical chemistry – transfer of contaminants – interactions at colloidal interfaces.