Lucie Coudert

Lucie Coudert has been an assistant professor at the Research Institute on Mines and Environment (IRME) at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) since 2018. With a master’s degree in chemistry and a doctorate in environmental science, she worked as a research associate at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique for 4 years before joining the IRME-UQAT team. She has held the Tier 2 Research Chair in Mine Tailings Reprocessing since 2019, and her work focuses on the development of (bio)hydrometallurgical processes for recovering precious metals and some critical and strategic metals present in mining and metallurgical tailings, with a view to maximizing the exploitation of mineral resources. She is also working on the development of mineralurgical separation and/or extractive metallurgy processes to separate problematic elements and thus transform potentially problematic mine tailings into value-added by-products that can be valorized on the mining site (e.g., mine reclamation) or off-site (e.g., by-products with commercial value).