Hélène BUDZINSKI

Hélène Budzinski is a research director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). She is the director of the mixed research unit called EPOC “Oceanic and Continental Environments and Paleoenvironments” from Bordeaux University, CNRS, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and Institut Polytechnique Bordeaux.

After a PhD in analytical chemistry related to petroleum organic geochemistry, she joined the CNRS in 1993 as a research fellow and developed pioneering activities in the field of environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology by focusing on pharmaceutical compounds present in aquatic environments. Her innovative work has led her to develop analytical methods for the determination of trace and ultra-trace levels of pollutants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, POPs, endocrine disruptors, …. Her research work takes into account experimental and theoretical approaches for the evaluation of chemical risk due to pollutants and their transformation products.

She is the author of more than 350 publications and she is frequently invited (more than 220 invitations) to national and international seminaries. She has many collaborations at international levels (INTERREG, ERANET, H2020).  She has directed or co-directed 66 PhDs and 26 post-doctoral researchers. She is also very involved in the organization of research, she co-directed Labex COTE and two CNRS/ Ifremer/ IRD research groups. She participates in numerous scientific committees and councils such as the French Parliamentary Office for evaluation of scientific and technological options (OPECST). She received the Analytical Chemistry Division Prize of the Société Chimique de France (SCF) in 1997 and was elected Senior Distinguished Member of the SCF in 2017. She received the CNRS bronze medal in 1995 and the CNRS silver medal in 2017. In 2019, she received the Berthelot Medal and Philippe A Guye Prize from the Academy of Sciences.

Hélène’s presentation abstract will be published soon