Stephane Siffert 
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11 Unité de Chimie Environnementale et Interactions sur le Vivant, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Dunkerque, France.
11 Unité de Chimie Environnementale et Interactions sur le Vivant, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Dunkerque, France.
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Prof. Stephane Siffert is a French Exceptional Class Professor at the University of Littoral-Opal Coast and the director of the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Interactions with leaving organisms.
He obtained his PhD in chemistry in 1997 at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg under the supervision of Prof. François Garin on the “Pt/Beta zeolite for hexane skeletal rearrangement reactions”. After a position as Research Assistant in Strasbourg, he carried out his post-doctorate at the University of Namur (Belgium) at the Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry (CMI) directed by Prof. B. L. Su. In 1998, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Littoral-Côte d’Opale in Dunkerque, where he established the main research theme on the catalytic treatment of Volatile Organic Compounds and then became the director of the “Catalytic Treatment and Clean Energy” team in 2010.
The topics his research concerns “heterogeneous catalysis” applied to the environment and energy. On one side, his research work deals with the catalytic treatment of atmospheric pollutants: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and soot. He also studies the purification and valorization of CO2 for the development of alternative solutions for transforming biomass into clean energy as well as the removal of organic pollutants from water by Fenton and photoFenton using solid catalysts. These treatments and valorizations are applied to agricultural, industrial and automotive effluents to provide solutions / prevention at the source.
At a fundamental level, the physico-chemical “in situ” or “operando” methods (IR, UV-vis, EPR) are used to refine the current reaction models.
Prof. Siffert is the coordinator of 3 European projects: Interreg III "Retrai" (2002-2007), Interreg IV "Redugaz" (2009-2013) and Interreg V "DepollutAir" (2016-2022) and the leader and co-leader of 7 other national and international projets. He has authored more than 110 scientific publications in highly impact journals including Enery Environ. Sci., Nano Energy, Appl. Catal. B., J. Catal., and delivered 180 lectures at international and national congresses.
He obtained his PhD in chemistry in 1997 at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg under the supervision of Prof. François Garin on the “Pt/Beta zeolite for hexane skeletal rearrangement reactions”. After a position as Research Assistant in Strasbourg, he carried out his post-doctorate at the University of Namur (Belgium) at the Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry (CMI) directed by Prof. B. L. Su. In 1998, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Littoral-Côte d’Opale in Dunkerque, where he established the main research theme on the catalytic treatment of Volatile Organic Compounds and then became the director of the “Catalytic Treatment and Clean Energy” team in 2010.
The topics his research concerns “heterogeneous catalysis” applied to the environment and energy. On one side, his research work deals with the catalytic treatment of atmospheric pollutants: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and soot. He also studies the purification and valorization of CO2 for the development of alternative solutions for transforming biomass into clean energy as well as the removal of organic pollutants from water by Fenton and photoFenton using solid catalysts. These treatments and valorizations are applied to agricultural, industrial and automotive effluents to provide solutions / prevention at the source.
At a fundamental level, the physico-chemical “in situ” or “operando” methods (IR, UV-vis, EPR) are used to refine the current reaction models.
Prof. Siffert is the coordinator of 3 European projects: Interreg III "Retrai" (2002-2007), Interreg IV "Redugaz" (2009-2013) and Interreg V "DepollutAir" (2016-2022) and the leader and co-leader of 7 other national and international projets. He has authored more than 110 scientific publications in highly impact journals including Enery Environ. Sci., Nano Energy, Appl. Catal. B., J. Catal., and delivered 180 lectures at international and national congresses.
Research Interests
heterogeneous catalysis, the catalytic treatment of atmospheric pollutants, purification and recovery of CO2 catalytic treatment of atmospheric pollutants.
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