Invited speakers

Dr. Anne-Marie CAMINADE, LCC, CNRS, Toulouse

2022 André Collet prize laureate

 Supramolecular interactions of phosphorus dendrimers and their applications in catalysis, materials, and biology

Anne-Marie Caminade is Deputy Director of the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC-CNRS) in Toulouse since 2021, Director of Research Exceptional Class (highest grade of the CNRS) since 2014, and Head of the “Dendrimers and Heterochemistry” group since 2006. She is at the origin of the phosphorus dendrimers, on which she was able to develop at first a very important and quality fundamental research to then show the very wide extent of the applications of these species in fields as varied as catalysis (metallic or organic), materials science and biology / nanomedicine. She authored over 500 publications (h index = 76, ca 18,000 citations). She has been recently honored by the French Chemical Society with the Achille Le Bel Grand Prize in 2021, by the German Chemical Society with the Grignard – Wittig Lecture award in 2022, and by her election to the Academia Europaea in 2022.

Pr. Thomas HERMANS, Université de Strasbourg

2022 Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker prize laureate

Controlling self-assembly by chemical fuels and light

Thomas Hermans is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg and group leader of the Laboratory of Nonequilibrium Complex Systems (www.hermanslab.com). He received his PhD from the faculty of Biomedical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. E.W. (Bert) Meijer (2006-2010). Next, he joined the group of Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski at Northwestern University as a postdoctoral fellow (USA, 2010-2013). Prof. Hermans received the ERC Starting Grant 2017, Thieme Chemistry Award 2018, Prix Guy Ourisson 2018, Prix Forcheur J.-M. Lehn 2022, Prix Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker 2022, and is a Young Scientist at World Economic Forum, World Laureates Association 2019-2020, and junior chair at the Institut Universitaire de France 2022-2027. He is coordinating a European (ITN) network ‘Creanet’ on chemical reaction networks. The main goal of the lab is obtaining adaptive, self-healing, self-replicating and ultimately living materials using molecular self-assembly under far-from-equilibrium conditions. Prof. Hermans is also co-founder and CTO of Qfluidics, a company working on wall-less fluidics for flow chemistry and low-shear magnetostaltic pumping for transport of delicate biologicals.

Dr. Mihail D. BARBOIU, IEM, CNRS, Université de Montpellier

Artificial Water Channels-toward Biomimetic Membranes for Desalination

Mihail Barboiu graduated from University Politehnica of Bucharest and received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Montpellier. He is CNRS Research Director at the Institut Europeen des Membranes in Montpellier and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. A major focus of his research is Dynamic Constitutional Chemistry toward Dynamic Interactive Systems: adaptive biomimetic membranes, delivery devices etc. Author of more than 330 scientific publications and 450 conferences and lectures, Dr Barboiu has received the EURYI Award in Chemistry in 2004 and the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award in 2015 for the development of Artificial Water Channels.

Pr. Jean-Marie LEHN, ISIS, Université de Strasbourg

Adaptive Chemistry: if order can be, order will be!

Jean-Marie Lehn is Professor at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 for his studies on the chemical basis of “molecular recognition” which also plays a fundamental role in biological processes. His work led him to define a novel area in chemistry, “supramolecular chemistry”, which concerns the entities formed by the association of chemical species through intermolecular forces. It developed into the chemistry of "self-organization" processes and thereafter "adaptive chemistry". Author of over 1000 scientific publications, Lehn is a member of many academies and institutions. He received numerous international honours and awards.