Dr. Elodie Passeport
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Engineering & Stable Isotopes (Tier II)
Cross appointment:
Dept. Civil and Mineral Engineering,
Dept. Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
PhD (2010), AgroParisTech / Irstea, Paris, France
MSc (2007), AgroParisTech, Paris, France
MSc (2006), National Institute of Applied Sciences, Toulouse, France
Research areas
– Green infrastructure for urban runoff quality control, e.g., bioretention cells.
– Constructed wetlands for the treatment of various kinds of wastewater, i.e., municipal, agricultural, and industrial effluents.
– Traditional and novel applications and method development in Compound Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA).
– Groundwater remediation.
– Passive sampling.
– Chemical and microbially-mediated reaction mechanisms of organic contaminants.
– Microplastics sources, fate, and detection methods.
Biography
Elodie Passeport is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Environmental Engineering and Stable Isotopes. Dr. Passeport is cross-appointed in the departments of Civil and Mineral Engineering, and Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry.
Dr. Passeport obtained her PhD from AgroParisTech in France in 2010 for which she received the PHYTOPHARMA industry-sponsored (BAYER) Award for best Ph.D. Thesis. Dr. Passeport was a post-doctoral fellow in the Plant and Microbial Biology department at the University of California, Berkeley (2011-2012) and then in the Earth Sciences department at the University of Toronto (2012-2014). Her research focuses on environmental remediation of contaminated surface- and groundwater in urban, agricultural, and industrial settings. Her approach is to characterize the transfer and transformation mechanisms that govern the fate and removal of contaminants in natural and engineered aquatic environments to inform design and operation of environmental remediation strategies, such as natural attenuation in contaminated groundwater, and green infrastructure such as bioretention cells and constructed wetlands. Dr. Passeport’s group develop new methods based on stable isotopes to help track contaminant fate in the environment. Dr. Passeport’s also investigates the sources and fate of microplastics in urban areas. Dr. Passeport received the Bill Burgess Teacher of the Year Award for Large Classes from the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto (2018), the Early Career Teaching Award from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (2020), and the Ontario Early Researcher Award (2021).
Dr. Passeport will be joining the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers in January 2024.
CURRENT MEMBERS
Dr. Jovana Radosavljevic
Postdoctoral fellow
Civil and Mineral Engineering
PhD (2023), University of Waterloo
Co-supervised with Prof. Philippe van Cappellen (University of Waterloo)
Kelsey Smyth
PhD candidate
Civil and Mineral Engineering
BSc (2016), University of Manitoba
Co-supervised with Prof. Jennifer Drake (Civil Min Eng.)
NSERC CGS-M award; NSERC CGS-D award
Shuyao Tan
PhD candidate
Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
BSc (2019), University of Toronto
Co-supervised with Prof. Josh Taylor (ECE)
Shuping Wang
PhD candidate
Civil & Mineral Engineering
BSc (2020), University of Waterloo
Gabriel Negrelli Garcia from
BSc (2019) Escola Politecnica, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dr. David Glöckler
Postdoctoral fellow
Civil and Mineral Engineering
PhD (2023), Technical University of Munich
FORMER GROUP MEMBERS
Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates
– 2023: Gabriela Barreto Bossoni
– 2023: Suchana Shamsunnahar
– 2021: Langping Wu
– 2019: Mélisa Hatat-Fraile
Graduate students – Research stream
– 2022: Suchana Shamsunnahar, PhD student, UofT Civil and Mineral Engineering
– 2022: Ariel Lisogorsky, MASc student, University of Waterloo, Earth and Environmental Sciences
– 2020: Ka Yee Lam, PhD student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2020: Zhu Hao Yu, MASc student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2020: Xinyao Gu, MASc student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2018: Christian Larsen, MASc student, UofT Civil and Mineral Engineering
– 2018: Ceren Akdeniz, MASc student, UofT Civil and Mineral Engineering
– 2018: Leandra Rhodes, MASc student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2017: Antoine Boyer, MASc student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2017: Brenden Ding, MASc student, UofT Civil Engineering
Graduate students – Course stream (Master of Engineering program)
– 2023: Hariharan Sivanandam, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2022: Weiwu Chen, UofT Civil and Mineral Engineering
– 2020: Yourong Li, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2018: Ziyu Shan, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2017: Neeti Sondi, UofT Civil and Mineral Engineering
– 2016: Ceren Akdeniz, UofT Civil and Mineral Engineering (transferred to MASc)
Undergraduate students
– 2023: Jaden Irving, 2nd year undergraduate student, UofT Civil and Mineral Engineering
– 2023: Loïc Bouilly, 2nd year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2022: Michael Chan, 1st year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2022: Savannah Byrne, 1st year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2022: Christina Pizzonia, 1st year undergraduate student, UofT Chemistry transferring to Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2022: William Wen: 2nd year undergraduate student, UofT Engineering Science
– 2021: Cassidy Tan, 1st year undergraduate, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2021: Harsh Ganatra, 2nd year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2021: Yao Sheng Chai, 2nd year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2021: Naman Mamtani, 2nd year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2019: Yourong Li, 4th year undergraduate student, UofT Environmental Chemistry
– 2019: Yucong Shi, 4th year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2019: Amandine Rault, 4th year undergraduate student, Polytech Nantes Process Engineering
– 2019: Ziting Xia, 1st year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2019: Chaitanya Ahuja, 1st year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2019: Syed Naqvi, 4th year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2018: Wei-Cheng Hooi, 2nd year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2017: Gordon Wong, 3rd year undergraduate student, UofT Civil Engineering
– 2016: Suzanne Malec, 2nd year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2016: Mehdi Bouras, 2nd year undergraduate student, Institut Universitaire de Toulouse, Génie Chimique – Génie des Procédés
– 2015: Garnet Lollar, 2nd year undergraduate student, UofT, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology & Earth Sciences
– 2015: Zhu Hao (Eric) Yu, 2nd year undergraduate student, UofT Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
– 2015: Bruno José da Silva, 3rd year undergraduate student, UofT/Brazil, Chemistry