Laurence Le Coq is Professor in process Engineering at IMT Atlantique. 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 mass transfer and particle transport / deposit, through porous media. 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.
She is author of 40 publications in international peer-review journals and more than 70 communications in international congress. 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. She contributed 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. She is also member of "Energy & Process Engineering centre" of Carnot MINES Institute.
She is deputy director of GEPEA laboratory since 2012 and deputy director for the research of IMT Atlantique since september 2015.