TER HALLE Alexandra

Alexandra TER HALLE is a Research Officer at the CNRS in Chemistry. After studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon from 1993 to 1997, she obtained her doctorate in organic chemistry in 2000 at the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon. His research then focused for seven years on the impact of irradiations on organic contaminants at the Laboratoire de Photochimie Moléculaire et Macromoléculaire in Clermont-Ferrand (LPMM, UMR 6505 CNRS - Université Blaise Pascal, Aubière). She initiated and coordinated various projects (ANR Ecophyto, FUI PHYTOMAR and industrial partnership with Syngenta). At IMRCP (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) since September 2011, she has been studying biodegradable materials used in environmental chemistry. She is the scientific coordinator of the French program "Expedition 7th continent" dedicated to the study of plastic pollution in tropical gyresub-tropics. She is the author of approximately forty-five publications and four patents.