Dr. Valérie Léveillé

Senior Waters and Wastewater Treatment Engineer
WSP

Dr. Léveillé obtained her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Université de Sherbrooke in 2000. She completed a master's degree in chemical engineering at the Plasma Technology Research Centre in 2002 and a doctorate in chemical engineering at McGill University in 2006. She has 17 years of experience in waters treatment. She was a process engineer specialised in electrochemical wastewater treatment technologies and then product manager at Terragon, Environmental Technologies for 7 years. She is a senior waters treatment engineer at WSP since September 2016. During her career, Dr. Léveillé has developed domestic wastewater treatment (grey water, black water), drinking water and industrial water treatments for homes, isolated communities, ships, military bases, schools, train and locomotives garages, mines, food industries, rendering plants and cosmetic industries. She has also developed in feasibility of the zero-waste discharge concept for isolated northern communities and ships. She conducts several audits on the physical integrity and safety of waters treatment system and prepares technical opinions. She conducts detailed design studies of industrial wastewater treatment. She is leading the development and scale-up of an electro-oxidation process for PFAS destruction in groundwaters. She is co-author of 4 patents and 1 patent pending on electrochemical and cold plasma technologies as well as 20 peer review papers, conference proceedings and presentations.