Vincent L. Pecoraro is an invited professor at ENS in April 2024.
He is the John T. Groves Collegiate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is a major contributor in the fields of inorganic, bioinorganic and supramolecular chemistries. He has risen to the upper echelons of these disciplines with nearly 350 publications (an h-index of 96), 4 book editorships and 5 patents. He has served the community in many ways including as an Associate Editor of Inorganic Chemistry for 20 years and now is Past-President of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC, https://www.sbichem.org/). Internationally, he has received a Le Studium Professorship, Blaise Pascal International Chair for Research, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and an Honorary PhD from Aix-Marseille University. His many US distinctions include the 2016 ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry, the 2021 ACS/SCF Franco-American Lectureship Prize and being elected a Fellow of the ACS and AAAS. He also recently co-founded a Biomedical Imaging company, VIEWaves. He was ranked in 2022 as one of the world’s top 1,000 most influential chemists.
His program is the following:
-two lectures on (1) Zinc in biology (Friday 5th, 2pm-4pm, amphithéâtre Jaurès) and (2) Heavy Metal ions (Friday 12th, 2pm-4pm, salle des Elements).
-a seminar about “Educational pathways for independent scientific research in the US and France” (Tuesday 16th, 1:30pm, room R)
– two seminars:
(1) on Thursday 11th, 11am, room R
Metallacrowns: Lanthanide Containing Metallamacrocycles Applied to Luminescent Imaging, Molecular Nanothermometry and Single Component White Light Emission
(2) on Monday 22nd, in the frame of the Culturchem seminars in Sorbonne University; Strategies for the design of alpha helical metalloenzymes
Vince Pecoraro vlpec@umich.edu