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As Director of Research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France), I currently develop my research activity on Polymer-Derived Ceramics (PDC) at the Institute of Research for Ceramics (IRCER, UMR CNRS 7315); a joint research unit belonging to CNRS and the university of Limoges.
I received my PhD degree in inorganic chemistry (11/2002) from the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 and then, I worked as a postdoc fellow in Max-Planck-Institute for Metal Research (Stuttgart, Germany) on Polymer-Derived SiBCN ceramics (2003). In Jan. 2004, I got a CNRS Research Fellow (tenure) position to develop a research activity dedicated to PDC at the Multimaterials & interfaces lab (LMI, UMR CNRS 5635, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1). In September, 2010, I moved to the European Institute of Membranes (IEM, UMR CNRS 5635) to extend my PDC activity towards membranes. I defended my habilitation thesis (materials science) at the University of Montpellier in Oct. 2012 and worked as a group leader (Material department) for two years at IEM before getting the position of Director of Research at CNRS (Tenured senior scientist) in Oct. 2016. In agreement with CNRS, I moved to IRCER in Oct. 2017.
My research interests are i) the design of PDC as objects including as well fibers & matrices as 3D architectures in the carbide and/or nitride systems and ii) the implementation of the PDC route to form nanocomposites in multi-component inorganic systems. Main applications concern the energy field. Until now, I have been the supervisor of more than 30 PhD students. I have co-authored 125 peer reviewed papers (H factor: 46), written 8 patents and 13 book chapters, and I gave more than 80 invited conference talks. I am associated editor for several journals such as J. Am. Ceram. Soc., International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology & J. Ceram. Soc. Jp. I am the editor of a book and the (co)-organizer of several international conferences. I was awarded the Solid State Chemistry Division Prize (June 2014) and received an award for recognition of my work done in chemistry (July, 2015) by the French Chemical Society (SCF). I am JSPS fellow and I have been nominated in sept. 2021 as the director of the research federation 'MatV2L' gathering IRCER and four ‘local’ institutes to coordinate their scientific works in the materials science field.