Prof. Pierre Servais

Email: pservais@ulb.ac.be

Address: Université Libre de Bruxelles
........ ..... ESA, CP-221
......... .... Bd du Triomphe, B-1050

Tel: +32 (0)26505995
Fax: +32 (0)26505993

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Aquatic microbial ecologist

Research interests

- Bacterial ecology of aquatic systems (Study of the activity and diversity of bacteria in various types of aquatic systems).
- Health-related microbiology (Development of detection methods for micro-organisms of sanitary interest in waters; origin and fate in aquatic systems of micro-organisms from fecal origin; wastewater disinfection).
- Microbiology of drinking water treatment and distribution (Biological treatment used in drinking water production, deterioration of microbiological water quality during distribution; biofilms in distribution systems; biofouling of membranes used in drinking water treatment).
- Biogeochemistry of aquatic systems (Role of micro-organisms in the cycle of key biogeochemical elements as C, N, P).

o Director of research on freshwater systems, drinking water and heath-related microbiology (ESA, ULB)
o Professor in Management of Aquatic systems, Microbiological water quality, Drinking water treatment (ULB)
o Promoters of 3 on-going Ph D Thesis)

o Coordinator of the Microbiological studies in the Piren Seine program (France)
o Member of the PAI TIMOTHY
o Scientific expert for the " Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Environnement et du Travail (AFSSET)(France)
o Editorial Advisory Commitee "International Journal Limnology"
o Scientific Committee: "Revue des Sciences de l'Eau"
o Member of International Water Association, Association Francophone d'Ecologie Microbienne, Société Française de Microbiologie, Association Française de Limnologie