Mickael Tharaud

Informations principales

Personnel ingénieur, technicien et administratif

Ingénieur de recherche - Research engineer

Biogéochimie à l'Anthropocène des éléments et contaminants émergents

0183957878

IPGP - Bureau 407 - 1, rue Jussieu - 75238 Paris cedex 05

Contenu / Travaux

As a research engineer, I have the opportunity to make an active contribution to the design and implementation of innovative research projects linked to the challenges posed by current environmental and societal issues. Currently manager of 2 state-of-the-art inductively coupled plasma mass-spectrometers (one high-resolution and one time-of-flight ICP-MS), my research is particularly focused on the development of new methodologies for the detection, quantification and characterization of nanoparticles in environmental matrices (i.e. water, soils and organic materials) especially thanks to single-particle inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometry. spICP-ToF-MS is a technique used for elemental analysis of individual nanoparticles. It involves the injection of nanoparticles into an inductively coupled plasma, where they are vaporized and ionized, and the resulting ions are separated and analyzed based on their time-of-flight in a mass spectrometer, allowing for precise characterization of the elemental composition, number concentration and mass/size distribution of individual nanoparticles in a sample. Sample preparation as well as data examination are also addressed in my research activities allowing a more complete approach of the analytical procedure.

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Qualifications

2022. Data Science certification (LeWagon, France)
2021. PhD. in Earth and environmental Science (Université Paris Cité - IPGP, France)
2008. MSc. in environmental chemistry (Université de Limoges, France)

Experience

2023 – Pres. Research Engineer (IPGP - Université Paris Cité)
2018 - Pres. Technical manager of PARI
2011 - 2023. Engineer in analytical chemistry (IPGP - Université Paris Cité)
2009 - 2011. Engineer in geochemistry (IPGP - CNRS)

PhD supervision

2022 - 2025. M. Gelin (co-supervision 30%): The role of nanophase formation and transport in critical zone dynamics
2021 - 2024. F. Wang (co-supervison 50%): The cycle of nanoparticle within the critical zone

Teaching

2018 - Pres. Advanced plasma source Mass-Spectrometry (Doctoral school STEP'UP)
2015 - Pres. Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass-Spectrometry (Licence professionnelle in analytical chemistry)