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. 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.

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.