new member of the group

Welcome to Quentin Grail, who will be working in the Water Sciences Group for 3 months. Quentin is currently in the 4^th year of his 5 year Masters programme in Water and Environmental Engineering at the Ecole Nationale du Génie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement de Strasbourg.  Quentin will be working with Dr Stephanie Handley-Sidhu, Dr Joanna Renshaw and Prof Lynne Macaskie, investigating the remediation of nuclear effluent and contaminated groundwaters using a novel biomineral ion exchanger. This work is part of the EPSRC/NERC funded BANDD project (Biogeochemical Applications in Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Disposal) involving the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester and Strathclyde, and BGS.