Marie Louise Tercier
Mary-Lou Tercier-Waeber is presently senior researcher scientist in analytical and environmental chemistry at the University of Geneva-Switzerland and consultant of the Idronaut company in Milan-Italy specialized in the development of innovative underwater marine instrumentation. She has been invited scientist at Scripps Institute, University of California from September 1988 to February 1989.
She has long-term interests in essential/toxic metal cycling in aquatic systems and the processes governing their (bio)geochemical behaviour and fate. Her research combines 1) the development of bioanalogical sensors with ultra-trace detection limits (ppt level), mini/micro integrated analytical systems and submersible probes and 2) the application of these tools to perform autonomous high-resolution in situ speciation analysis to investigate the mechanisms regulating the transformation of metals in aquatic systems and assess the combined effects of chemical and physical stress on their fate and impact.
She is author/co-author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications, 1 patent, 4 invited book chapters and numerous invited contributions at scientific conferences. She has been awarded in 1998 by the Swiss Technological Institute for the key innovation in sensors and submersible probes for in situ trace metal monitoring.
She has been involved as UNIGE main investigator, PI, scientific coordinator, and/or WP leader in several national and EU projects: STEP EU project (1990-1993); Swiss Priority Programme MINAST on microtechnology (1996-1999); VAMP – EU MAST-III (1995-1998); IMTEC – EU FP5-ENV (2000-2003); BIOSPEC – EU FP5-ENV (2001-2004); ECODIS – EU FP6-ENV (2005-2008); MOBESENS – EU FP7-ICT (2008-2011). She has also collaborated, or be a consultant, to several external Swiss, European, US and Canadian projects (1996 - ).
Presently she is coordinator of the EU FP7-Ocean 2013 project “SCHeMA” (2013-2017), and involved as main investigator in the ESA project “Waterlens” (2013-2014) and the Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia project: “In situ sensing tools to study dynamic aquatic ecological processes”.