Damien LAAGE

Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
Professeur attaché, ENS

ENS – Département de chimie
24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris

Email: damien.laage [at] ens.psl.eu
Phone: +33 144322418
Office: E111c

Education

  • PhD theoretical chemistry, Sorbonne Univ. Paris, Advisor: J.T. Hynes (2001)
  • MSc physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (1997)

Professional experience

  • Directeur de recherche CNRS, UMR PASTEUR (2014-)
  • Professeur attaché, Ecole Normale Supérieure (2014-)
  • Chargé de recherche CNRS, UMR PASTEUR (2002-2014)
  • Postdoctoral researcher, ETH Zürich (2001-2002)

Research interests

Theoretical chemistry; chemical reactivity in solution, at interfaces and in biochemical environments; water and hydrogen-bond dynamics; neural network potentials for simulating chemical reactions

Awards and distinctions

  • ERC Starting Grant (2012)
  • Young researcher award – French chemical society, physical chemistry division (2012)
  • CNRS bronze medal (2010)

Selected publications

  1. Gomez, A.; Thompson, W. H.; Laage, D. Neural-network-based molecular dynamics simulations reveal that proton transport in water is doubly gated by sequential hydrogen-bond exchange. Nature Chemistry 2024, 16, 1838 [10.1038/s41557-024-01593-y].
  2. de la Puente, M.; Gomez, A.; Laage, D. Neural Network-Based Sum-Frequency Generation Spectra of Pure and Acidified Water Interfaces with Air. J Phys Chem Lett 2024, 15, 3096-3102 [10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00113].
  3. David, R.; Tuñón, I.; Laage, D. Competing reaction mechanisms of peptide bond formation in water revealed by deep potential molecular dynamics and path sampling. J Am Chem Soc 2024, 146, 14213-14224 [10.1021/jacs.4c03445].
  4. de la Puente, M.; Laage, D. How the Acidity of Water Droplets and Films Is Controlled by the Air–Water Interface. J Am Chem Soc 2023, 145, 25186-25194 [10.1021/jacs.3c07506].
  5. de la Puente, M.; David, R.; Gomez, A.; Laage, D. Acids at the Edge: Why Nitric and Formic Acid Dissociations at Air-Water Interfaces Depend on Depth and on Interface Specific Area. J Am Chem Soc 2022, 144, 10524-10529 [10.1021/jacs.2c03099].