Teodora Retegan

Short Bio:

Researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden <br><br> Teodora Retegan is a PhD researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden since 2009 in Nuclear Chemistry and Industrial Materials Recycling group. <br> There she conducts research related to extraction and separation of metals by means of solvent extraction from different streams like: spent nuclear fuel, electronic waste (WEEE), mining industry (primary and secondary sources) and secondary waste from industrial processes. She has been working in close relation with industry and is/has been leading or contributing to numerous projects related to industrial applications, among others: separation of REMs from magnets, separation of REMs from low energy lamps and mercury decontamination, separation of REMs and Indium from LCDs, measurement and detection of brominated flame retardants, mercury removal from spent catalysts, alkaline batteries recycling. <br> On the nuclear related research, she has been active in three EU FP7 projects where she was working with separation of actinides from lathanides and actinides from eachother from spent nuclear fuel. This has been the first step in new nuclear fuel production, which currently is the research theme of a large-scale project where she is still active: ASGARD. Also, she is actively researching on safety related issues, especially on fuel-coolant interactions (currently Pb and LBE for Gen IV systems). She is actively involved in teaching Nuclear Chemistry and is active in the second round of Cooperation in education and training In Nuclear Chemistry project (CINCH-II). <br> She is leading PhD and MSc students, is active in teaching, peer-reviewer of several journals (e.g. Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange, Journal of Solution Chemistry, Separation and Purification Chemistry) and expert evaluator of EURATOM (FP7) and national foundations. <br> She is also the recipient of the Renova's Environmental Scholarship for Strategies for discarding of WEEE, especially smaller electronic devices (2010) and The Foundation of King Carl XVI Gustaf's 50th Anniversary Fund for Science, Technology and Environment for Recycling and detoxification of waste fluorescent lamps and CFLs (2014). <br> She is enjoying very much reading and she is beta-reader for science-fiction (SF) novels at author's requests.