Alexandre SYLVESTRE Ph. D. student in atmospheric chemistry

Alexandre SYLVESTRE
Ph. D. student in atmospheric chemistry
Aix-Marseille University
CNRS FRE 3416
Laboratoire de Chimie de l’Environnement (LCE)
Atmospheric Reactivity and Instrumentation group
Saint Charles campus (case 29)
3, Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3
Phone: (+33)4 13 55 10 44
Cellphone: (+33)6 52 23 08 31
E-mail: [email protected]
Address: 69, rue Auguste Blanqui, 13006 Marseille
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 10/25/1987
EDUCATION:
2012 – Actual:
Ph. D. Student at the “Laboratoire de Chimie de l’Environnement”, Atmospheric Reactivity and
Instrumentation group, Marseille, France
Thesis subject: Chemical composition and origin of atmospheric particles around l'Etang de Berre,
France.
2010 – 2012:
MS in environmental science: analytical chemistry, reactivity and modeling, Aix-Marseille University,
France (with distinction)
2007 - 2010:
Bachelor of science in environmental chemistry science in Aix-Marseille University, France (with
distinction)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES:
2012 – Actual:
Ph. D. in the “Laboratoire de Chimie de l’Environnement”, Aix-Marseille University, France.
Subject: Chemical composition and origin of atmospheric particles around l'Etang de Berre, France.
2012:
Internship in the “Laboratoire de Chimie de l’Environnement”, Aix-Marseille University, France. (6
months)
Subject: Application of the new atmospheric ion source in mass spectrometry, Direct Analysis in Real
Time (DART), for the study of organic aerosol.
2011:
Internship in the “Laboratoire de Chimie de l’Environnement”, Aix-Marseille University, France. (1
month)
Subject: Preprocessing of data collect during APICE intercomparaison campaign.
2010:
Internship in the “Laboratoire de Chimie de l’Environnement” , Aix-Marseille University, France. (1
month)
Subject: Analysis of atmospheric sample collect at BAMAKO (POLCA project).
ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGES AND SKILLS:
Fieldwork: Field campaign preparation, instruments installation and servicing, data recovery
Sample preparation: Extraction technics (Soxhlet, Accelerated Solvent Extraction), concentration technics (Rotavapor, Turbovap® II),
dilution and filtration technics, manipulation of toxic compounds.
Analytical technics: Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS, Ion trap and triple quadrupole mass spectrometer): utilization and
servicing, Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer Spectrometers (SMPS), Multiangle Absorption Photometer (MAAP), Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
(AMS), Liquid Chromatography (Electrospray source) Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS, ToF mass spectrometer), Direct Analysis in Real Time
source in mass spectrometry (DART), Infrared spectroscopy.
Data treatment: Pika and squirrel software (AMS), Tof viewer software (PTRMS), Xcalibur software (GC-MS), MassLynx software (LCMS), source apportionment modeling software (PMF/ME2 (SoFi) and CMB EPA), GRIMM Universal Nano software (SMPS), Igor pro
software, infrared spectroscopy spectra identification, notion in nuclear magnetic resonance spectra identification, notion for R software,
notion in C++.
Other Skills: English (B1-B2), redaction of papers and reports, great computer skills, Inkscape and Gimp software, driving licence.
TEACHING/MANAGEMENT EXPERIMENTS:
2012-2014:
Engineer supervisor
2014:
Scientific support: 2nd year of primary school (20h).
Tutor for tutorial classes: in chemistry (4h).
Trainee supervisor (2 months)
2013:
Practical work supervisor: (BS in natural, terrestrial and environmental sciences) in analytic chemistry
at the Aix-Marseille University (15h), Marseille, France.
2008-2014:
Academic support at home: 2 students from the primary school to business school in mathematics,
physics and biology and 2 students from secondary school in mathematics and physics (3h/week).
FORMATIONS:
16 Dec 2013:
Formation on the manipulation of fire extinguisher, C.F.S (Samsic Formation Center)
7 Dec 2013:
European first aid certificate and IRR (Initiation to risk reduction), Croix-Rouge Française.
4 Dec 2013:
Formation on « Nanomaterial: What are the risks? », CNRS.
9–14 Jun 2013:
Summer School on Organic Aerosols, Gothenburg/Tjarno, Sweden (in English, 1 week).
PUBLICATIONS:
2013:
Val S., Liousse C., Doumbia T., Galy-Lacaux C., Cachier H., Marchand N., Sylvestre A., Badel A., Gardrat E., Baeza-Squiban A.
Physico-chemical characterization of African urban aerosols (Bamako in Mali and Dakar in Senegal) and their toxic effects in human
bronchial epithelial cells: description of a worrying situation. Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 10:10, 2013.
COMMUNICATIONS:
2014:
Sylvestre A., Mizzi A., Mathiot S., Mesbah B., Don J., Revenko G., Chamaret P., Jaffrezo J-L., Wortham H., Marchand N.
Influence of Industrial Activities on Concentrations and Chemical Composition of Ambient Aerosol Particles. American Association for
Aerosol Research 33nd Annual Conference (AAAR), Orlando, Florida, USA, October 2014. (Platform presentation)
Pey J., Cerro J-C., Hellebust S., DeWitt H.L., Temime-Roussel B., Elser M., Pérez N., Sylvestre A., Salameh D., Mocnik G.,
Prévôt A., Zhang Y., Szidat S., Marchand N. Atmospheric Monitoring in the Western Mediterranean in Summer 2013: Overview of
Physico-chemical Properties and Variability. American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR), Orlando, Florida, USA, October 2014.
(Platform presentation)
DeWitt H.L., Pey J., Hellebust S., Temime-Roussel B., Mizzi A., Salameh D., Sylvestre A., Elser M., Pérez N., Cerro J.C.,
Jaffrezo J-L., Mocnik G., Prévôt A., Marchand N. Comparison of the Sources of Organic Aerosol (OA) Using Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
at Two Mediterranean Islands: Corsica and Mallorca. American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR), Orlando, Florida, USA,
October 2014. (Platform presentation)
Pey J., Cerro J. C., Hellebust S., Dewitt H. L., Temime-Roussel B., Elser M., Pérez N., Sylvestre A., Salameh D., Mocnik G.,
Prévôt A. S. H., Zhang Y. L., Szidat S., Marchand N. Ground-based atmospheric monitoring in Mallorca and Corsica in summer 2013 in
the context of ChArMEx: Results on number-size distributions, on-line and off-line aerosol chemistry, and volatile organic compounds.
Iberian Meeting on Aerosol Science and Technology (RICTA), Tarragona, Spain, July 2014. (Platform presentation)
2013:
Sylvestre A., Ravier S., Detournay A., Bruns E., Temime-Roussel B., Kilic D., Slowik J., El Haddad I., Platt S., Prévôt A.,
Marchand N. Evidence of the Secondary Origin of Nitrocatechols and Alkylated-Nitrocatechols in Atmospheric Aerosol Particles.
American Association for Aerosol Research 32nd Annual Conference (AAAR), Portland, Oregon, USA, October 2013. (Platform
presentation)
Marchand N., Sylvestre A., Ravier S., Detournay A., Bruns E., Temime-Roussel B., Slowik J.G., El Haddad I., Prévôt A.S.H.
Origin of nitrocatechols and alkylated-nitrocatechols in atmospheric aerosol particles. European Geophysical Union (EGU), Vienna,
Austria, April 2013. (Platform presentation)
2012:
Sylvestre A., Ravier S. and Marchand N. (2012) On the use of Direct Analysis in Real Time/Quad-Time of Flight (DART/QTOF) for the analysis of Organic Aerosol. European Aerosol Conference (EAC), Grenada, Spain, September 2012. (Poster)
Marchand N., El Haddad I., Detournay A., Salameh D, Abidi E, Sylvestre A., Temime-Roussel B, Ravier S., Piot C., D'Anna B.,
Jaffrezo JL., Wortham H. Keynotes: PM2.5 sources in a Mediterranean city (Marseille): influence of industrial emissions and
photochemical processes. 3rd Sino French workshop, Qingdao, China, Septempber 2012. (Platform presentation)