Laurence Le Coq is Professor in process Engineering at IMT Atlantique. She is deputy director of GEPEA laboratory since 2012 and Vice Dean of Research & Innovation of IMT Atlantique since 2017. Her research activities are conducted in GEPEA laboratory, a joint research unit merging CNRS, Nantes University, ONIRIS and IMT ATlantique (approx. 200 people).
Her research activities deal with gazeous pollutant transfer and particulate matter transport / deposit, through porous media. The applications are indoor air quality, industrial flue gas treatment including combustion fumes and biogas / syngas purification prior to valorization. Her scientific skills are related to :
- mass transfer with possible heterogeneous reaction at solid-fluid interface of porous material,
- influence of porous media structure on flow
- and particle deposition or resuspension from a surface or a porous media.
From 2008 to 2015, she was in charge of the teaching & research department "Energy system & environmental engineering" of Ecole des Mines de Nantes (french school of engineer). For the same period, she was deputy director of the Nantes Doctoral School in Engineering science which represents more than 250 PhD students in this scientific domain. From 2015 to 2016, she was Vice Dean of Research of Ecole des Mines de Nantes.
She contributes to different evaluations on Labs or scientific domains for French national agency for research evaluation, European commission, National research institute on risk & health at workplace INRS, National Agency for sanitary safety ANSES.
She is also member of "Energy & Process Engineering centre" of Carnot MINES Institute. She is involved in scientific associations SFGP (Société Française de Génie des Procédés), SF2P (Société Française des Séparations Fluides-Particules) and ASFERA (Association Française d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Aérosols).