Christian SERRE

Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Director of UMR8004 – Institut des Matériaux Poreux de Paris

ENS – Département de chimie
24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris

ESPCI
10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris

Email: christian.serre@ens.psl.eu / christian.serre@espci.fr
Phone: +33 1 44 32 24 63
Office: E026G (ENS) / F04 (ESPCI)

Academic Career

• 2001-2009 : CNRS researcher, Institut Lavoisier UMR CNRS 8180, Université Versailles St Quentin (France)

• 2009-2016 : CNRS director of Research, Institut Lavoisier, CNRS Université Versailles St Quentin (France)

• Since 2016 : Head of the Institute des Matériaux Poreux de Paris, UMR CNRS 8004, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de Paris, PSL University

Education

• • 1990-1994 : Engineer from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de Paris (ESPCI), speciality : Chemistry of Materials (3d-4th years)

• • 1994-1995 : MSc in Physical Chemistry, Université Paris VI (France), with honours

• • 1996-1999 : PhD from the Université Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

• • 2000 : Post-doctoral fellow at the CNRS-Rhodia- Princeton university joint laboratory (NJ, USA).

Research interests

• • Synthesis, structure determination, including the use of X-ray diffraction data, and applications related to health, environment and energy of porous stable and functional porous solids (Metal Organic frameworks…).

Institutional Responsabilities

• • • Coordinator of the priority project from the Ile de France DIM Respore (2017-2020).

• • • ERC Panel member.

• • • FCT Panel member (Portugal).

• • • Member of the editorial board of EurJIC and Matter (Cell press).

• • • Member of the MOF commission of the International Zeolite Association, Member of the EuroMOF committee.

• • • Member of the French Chemical Society.

Awards and distinctions

• • • CNRS Bronze medal 2006.

• • • Laureate of the Lindau 56th Nobel Laureate Meeting 2006.

• • • FP7 ERC starting grant 2008-2013 (BioMOFs).

• • • French Chemical Society Solid State Chemistry award 2011.

• • • Berthelot Medal and Prix Fondé de l’Etat from the French academy of Sciences (2016).

Publications