Thèmes de recherche

Supramolecular polymer catalysis and chirality

Parcours Scientifique

• 2018 – Habilitation “Asymmetric catalysts based on supramolecular polymers : dynamicity and chirality amplification” (HDR, 10/04). Jury : E. Monflier (Univ. Artois, reviewer), N. Giuseppone (ICS, reviewer), S. Arseniyadis (Univ. Queen Mary, reviewer), F. D’Agosto (CPE), D. Hourdet (SU), J. Crassous (Univ. Rennes I), L Bouteiller (SU).
• 2012 – now – Research Scientist (permanent position) for CNRS (CRCN), based at Sorbonne Université, IPCM Institute, Polymer Chemistry team, Paris (France)
• 2011 – 2012 – 2-years post-doc in Pr. Piet van Leeuwen group, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona (Spain).
• 2009 – 2011 – 14 months post-doc in Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry (UPMC) under the supervision of Dr. Laurent Bouteiller, Paris (France).
• 2005 – 2009 – PhD in Chemistry – University of Strasbourg (France) – 05/16/2009 « New classes of ligands and metallic complexes for the functionalization of alkanes by C-H activation » Supervisor : Dr. Pierre Braunstein.
• 2004 – 2005 – Master Student – “Chemistry of Biomolecules : Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity” at the University of Montpellier II (France).
• 2002 – 2005 – Engineering student at ENSIACET, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques. Toulouse (France).

Membership of scientific society boards

• 2020 – now – Co-opted member of the of the board of the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Society of Chemistry (SCF).
• 2020 – now – Elected member of the “Supramolecular Chemistry Group” of the SCF.

Publications and talks

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• Author of 39 publications (30 since 2012, 15 since 2018). 1 patent. 4 book chapters (4 since 2018).
  >2000 citations (average of 51 citations by article) with an h-index of 21.
• 28 publications as corresponding and/or first author including J. Am. Chem. Soc (x3), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (x2), Chem. Commun. (x6), Chem. Eur. J. (x1), Chem. Soc. Rev. (x3).
• Participation in 13 international conferences (including 6 invited lectures) and 13 national conferences or local meetings.
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Ongoing grants

• 2021-2025 : China Scholarship Council (thesis of H. Kong)
• 2021-2025 : China Scholarship Council (thesis of R. Chen)
• 2021-2026 : PI of AdECat (PRC funded by ANR) – € 227,360 (part allocated to the team). Collaboration with the groups of V. Mouriès-Mansuy (Sorbonne Université), Daniel Taton (LCPO, Bordeaux) and A. Vidal-Ferran (ICREA/Univ. Barcelona). ANR AdECat