Université de Strasbourg

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016, completed his PhD at the Louis-Pasteur University (Strasbourg I) under the supervision of Jean-Marie Lehn, himself a 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate. During his PhD thesis, he developed the first synthesis of cryptand ligands.  He was subsequently a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Strasbourg from 1971 to 2014 and currently holds a Chair at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS). His laboratory is based at the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (ISIS), CNRS / University of Strasbourg. Jean-Pierre Sauvage is an international pioneer in molecular machines. These devices are assemblies of molecules capable of changing shape while keeping their topology, as well as moving in a controlled fashion under the effect of light, thermal or electrical signals, for example. Jean-Pierre Sauvage and his team succeeded in particular in developing and synthesising molecular systems reproducing rotation, translation and contraction movements in the same way as a muscular fibre or other important biological processes. He was awarded the bronze medal of the CNRS in 1978 and its silver medal in 1988, and is a recipient of many other scientific awards. He was elected corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1990 and full member in 1997 and was made Knight of the French Legion of Honour and Grand Officer of the French National Order of Merit (2016). In 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Britain’s Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Dutchman Bernard L. Feringa. All three were rewarded for the design and synthesis of “molecular machines”. The work of Jean-Pierre Sauvage takes the nanosciences into a new dimension, with the development of these molecular machines that are capable of reproducing movements of the living world.

Dr. Carole Duboc received her PhD from the University of Grenoble under the supervision of Professor Marc Fontecave. Following postdoctoral position at the University of Minnesota, with Professor William Tolman, she joined the High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Grenoble in 2000 and the Department of Molecular Chemistry at Grenoble in 2007, where she is now CNRS senior researcher. Her research interests now focus on the design of efficient systems for redox catalysis involving multi-electron reactions, with a special focus on complexes capable of reproducing certain vital reactivity of the living world with a major interest in the field of energy and environment. Several specific reactions or processes are targeted: selective reduction of O2 in H2O or H2O2, reduction of H+ in H2, and activation & valorization of CO2.

Dr. Anthony Dufour is a tenured research scientist at CNRS, France. He is an active and reputed researcher on thermochemical conversion of fuels and energy. Dr. Dufour brings a wide spectrum of expertise in fundamentals of fuel pyrolysis, reactions of carbonaceous materials, advanced spectrometric characterization and in situ analysis, heterogeneous catalysis, production of biofuels and biochemicals, development of thermochemical reactors, and interdisciplinary assessment of bioenergy routes. Prior to joining Energy & Fuels, Dr. Dufour served as Editor of the Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis (Elsevier). Dr. Dufour has commenced his appointment with Energy & Fuels since this March.

Dr. Paul-André Genest is an Assistant Director and Publisher at the American Chemical Society where he is responsible for the management of roughly half of the ACS journals portfolio and Global Editorial Strategy team. Since 2016, he is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University where he co-teaches a yearly course on scholarly communication (BIOS 292: Preparation and Practice: Scientific Communication & Media). Previously, he worked as a Publisher and Senior Editor at Wiley and as an Associate Publisher and Scientific Editor at Elsevier. Dr. Genest has a BSc (Biology) degree and a MSc (Microbiology-Immunology) degree from the Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, and a PhD (Molecular Parasitology) from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He held two postdoc research positions at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands before transitioning to the scholarly publishing industry.

Sacha Devillers is an engineer in Food Industry and Environmental Sciences. Sacha worked for 10 years in the water treatment chemicals industry where he set up local offices for the Suez Group. He then moved to the publishing industry, working for 10 years at a major journal publisher, with responsibility for all French-speaking territories including Africa. He actively participated in the print to electronic content migration and all the opportunities it opened for the scientific community. Sacha joined CAS in 2018. He is motivated to work for a non-profit organization supporting scientists in their information management challenges. In his role as EMEA South Regional Director, Sacha now supports a team of local Customer Success Managers in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Africa and the Middle East.

Monica joined the ACSI sales team based in Oxford in July 2014. Alongside her Regional Sales Manager reponsibilities in the EMEA region, Monica represents the ACS internationally, fostering the relationship between the ACS and their end-users, authors, customers and stakeholders. She is strongly committed to bringing the ACS closer to the scientific community outside the USA and she fully engages at every opportunity in outreach events such as ACS on Campus.

Sophie Bergeron is a Customer Success Specialist with the CAS EMEA team, where she provides technical training and product consulting to customers in France. Sophie is an accomplished patent analyst with many years of experience in conducting rigorous scientific analyses of patents and technical information in global pharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining CAS, she worked at Novartis Pharma in Switzerland as a Senior Patent Analyst for more than a decade. Before that, she also gained experience working at Pfizer, Dow Pharma and Chirotech Tech. in the UK. Sophie holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Poitiers in France and a master’s degree in organic chemistry from the University of Liverpool in the UK.  Currently, she resides in Hégenheim, France.

Dr. Míriam Plana joined Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in 2007. Her main focus at CAS is helping scientists solve their scientific information challenges and reach their goals through CAS Solutions. Míriam received her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Barcelona, where she also completed her undergraduate studies. During her Ph.D. studies she moved to University of Oxford (UK), Technische Universität Berlin (Germany) and BAYER AG (Germany) to complete her research and learn new ways and techniques to do research. Before working at CAS, Míriam worked as a Technical Chemical Engineer, Head of X-Rays Diffraction and Researcher in R&D in different fields such as Cosmetic, Paper, Dyes and Enamels. She speaks English, German, Spanish, Catalan and some French.