Hello, I am Nathan Bossa

I am an environmental physico-chemist specialized in benefits and risks of nanotechnology for the environment along the product life cycle with a deep background in material characterization.

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LEITAT - Senior Researcher - 2019/present


DUKE University - Post Doc - 2015/2019

Ph.D Materials science - 2015- university of Marseille and INERIS

19 publications including 1 in Nature

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Project management

Tasks leader in International, multi-partner, multi-disciplinary projects.

Environmental remediation

Development of groundwater remediation solutions, study of the polluant degradability and behavior, environmental sampling.

Membrane water treatment

Improvment of membrane ultrafiltration with nanomaterials.

Data managment

Create interusable database, developing curation structure and ontology, users training.

Tools for risk assessment and Safe by design strategy

Tools and framework developmnent for nanotechnology risk assessment and safe by design strategies implementation for industrial sectors.

Caracterization of materials and interfaces

Skill in large variety of techniques (X-ray tomography, XPS, AFM, TEM and SEM), development of SOP.

Materials Characterization

Multi-scale X-ray techniques (Nano and Micro X-Ray Tomograhy, XRD, XPS, SAXS, EDX), microscopy (SEM, TEM), surface energy (contact angle), roughness (AFN), light interaction (DLS).

Pollutant life cycle

Pollutant exposure using modelling, in-site measurment and experimental methods toward workers, consumers and the enviroment during his life cycle.

Safe by design nanotechnology and regulation compliance

Development of tools and frameworks to assess the risk of nanotechnologies along the product life cycle. Implementaltion of safe by design strategies at the different phases of the product development to ensure a safe product launch following the regulation requirments.

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Projets

Projets

During my career, I have been involved in many  different projects including  univer…

What my collaborators say about me

Mark R.Wiesner

Mark R.Wiesner

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

During the time that Dr. Bossa was in my group, I relied upon him heavily to manage many of the day-to day activities in the lab. He was excellent at multi-tasking while excelling at everything he worked on. He was also a terrific mentor to both undergraduates and graduate students and I surmise that he will be as good in the classroom as he is in the lab.

Jérôme Rose

Jérôme Rose

CNRS Research Director

Nathan Bossa has great educational qualities which he developed during his stay in the USA. He has supervised many young researchers from the license to the doctorate. Although very young, Nathan Bossa has already acquired an undeniable international visibility. Over the years, as a thesis director and then remotely, I have been able to appreciate the seriousness and the unflinching motivation of Nathan Bossa. His humility to solve complex issues combined with great tenacity, enabled him in a short time to become an internationally recognized specialist. His personality, combining motivation, attention to detail but also and above all great listening skills allows him to collaborate with many groups. Whether it is his scientific and technical capacities, motivation, sense of common interest and personality, his role is essential to the smooth running of a group.

Thilo Hofmann

Thilo Hofmann

Chair and Prof. of Environmental Geosciences, University of Vienna Vice Dean

I have known Dr. Nathan Bossa for about three years. He was the primary point of contact on a collaboration between my lab at the lab of Professor Mark Wiesner and Duke University. He was a very active collaborator who added much to our work. A first paper based on our collaboration was published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology in 2017 and a second paper is currently under review. Dr. Bossa’s contributions to this work were essential. He added much to the organization of the work and the interpretation of the data. He is very competent in the area of nano-scale analyses (electron microscope, elemental analyses…) and he was very effective in bringing together researchers in my lab with those in Professor Wiesner’s lab. We have continued to interact following his move to his new position with the LEITAT Technology Centre in Barcelona, Spain, and I would welcome the opportunity to collaborate with him in the future. Dr. Nathan Bossa would be an excellent addition to your team and I highly recommend him without any reservation.