Peggy Gunkel Grillon
University of New-Caledonia, New Caledonia
Biography
Peggy Gunkel Grillon is an Environmental Chemist having expertise in heavy metals and their contamination, bioavailability and mobility in the environment. She is an Assistant Professor since 2008 and Deputy Director of ISEA laboratory (Institut des Sciences Exactes et Appliquées) at the University of New Caledonia. She has a keen interest in understanding heavy metals behavior in the environment for a modern society concerned with sustainable development. Recently, her activities also include the development of remediation techniques. With her colleagues she’s been working for 4 years on the electrochemical precipitation of heavy metals in seawater to trap dissolved metallic contaminants.