Julien Vantourout was born and raised in Armentières, France. For his Bachelor and Master studies, he attended CPE Lyon and the University of Lyon 1, where he worked in the laboratory of Prof. Olivier Baudoin, and graduated in 2014. In the fall of that year, he enrolled the collaborative PhD program between GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Strathclyde working in the area of copper-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions under the supervision of Prof. Allan J. B. Watson and Dr. Albert Isidro-Llobet. He earned his PhD in Chemistry in March 2018. Afterward, he undertook a postdoctoral appointment at Scripps Research Institute (CA, USA) with Prof. Phil Baran, working on the design of a suite of new P(V)-based reagents and the development of electrochemically driven metal-catalyzed reactions. Julien was then promoted to the role of Staff Scientist of the Baran lab, overseeing several industrial collaborative projects. In December 2020, he started his independent career as a CNRS researcher in the SCORE lab at the ICBMS of Lyon focusing on the development of transition metal-catalyzed electrochemical transformations. Julien has co-authored multiple peer reviewed publications (>40) and is a co-inventor on two patent applications. He has been the recipient of several awards including the Young Chemist of Industry prize from the SCI.