Iuliana Laura Calugaru
Project manager at Centre technologique des résidus industriels (CTRI) and professor of chemistry at the Cégep de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Iuliana Laura Calugaru holds a PhD in mineral engineering. She works in the active and passive treatment of mining effluents. Her work focuses on the modification of under-utilized natural materials, tailings and by-products to increase their efficiency for mine drainage treatment, the prediction of mine drainage water quality, the chemical leaching of metals from various matrices and the valorization of by-products and tailings. Her current work focuses on the use of glycine as a green alternative to cyanidation for gold recovery, the development of a new passive dolomitic drain treatment system for contaminated mine effluents, and the sustainable and optimized extraction of niobium and other critical and strategic minerals (CSMs) from niobium deposits.
Iuliana Laura Calugaru
« Through my commitment to ONICSE's scientific council, I hope to contribute to a rigorous, interdisciplinary and humane approach to assessing the impact of contaminants. My ambition is to contribute to the production of knowledge that is accessible, useful and mobilizable to inform decisions with a public impact, while protecting both the health of the population and that of ecosystems. »