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Nous sommes heureuses et heureux de vous présenter le nouveau bureau de la section régionale Ile-de-France de la SCF pour ces trois prochaines années.
Nous avons la répresentation de l’Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, Paris-Saclay, Paris-Cité et Sorbonne Université avec Manuel Barday, Aurélien de la Torre, Claire Cuyamendous, Lydia Sosa Vargas, Natacha Krins, Julie Oble, Candice Botuha, Fanny Coumes, Geoffroy Guillemot et Stéphanie Halbert. De plus Florent Ducrozet, président du RJ-SCF Ile-de-France, participe également à nos réunions.
Les membres du bureau se présentent
Lydia SOSA VARGAS
Chargé.e de Recherche CNRS, Sorbonne Université
Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire
Twitter: @Dr_Curieosity Bluesky: @drcurieosity.bsky.social
Originally from Mexico, Lydia obtained her PhD from the University of East Anglia in the UK. She carried out her first postdoctoral position in Japan at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. In 2015, she joined the Polymer Chemistry team at Sorbonne University for her second postdoc before being recruited by the CNRS as a tenured researcher. Her research interests involve the molecular design and synthesis of pi-conjugated materials for applications in organic electronic and photonic devices, and supramolecular self-assembly at the nanoscale.
Lydia is currently president of the Ile-de- France section at the Societé Chimique de France. She is also member of the of the French Polymer group, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Polymer Division within the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
Claire CUYAMENDOUS
Maître.sse de conférence, Université Paris Cité
Cible Thérapeutique et Conception de Médicaments (CiTCoM – UMR CNRS 8038)
Claire is an associate profesor in pharmacognosy since 2020 in the Produits Naturels, Analyses et Synthèses team (PNAS), part of the Cibles Thérapeutiques et Conception de Médicaments (CiTCoM – UMR CNRS 8038) unit of Université Paris Cité. Her research activities focus on the synthesis of natural products and the isolation of innovative original natural compounds that can be used in hemisynthesis.
In 2015, she obtained her PhD at the University of Montpellier in the field of total synthesis of phytofurans, under the supervision of Dr. Camille Oger and Dr. Jean-Marie Galano. She went to New Zealand as a postdoctoral fellow at the center for biodiscovery in Victoria University of Wellington, to work with Dr. Joanne Harvey and Dr. Paul Teesdale-Spittle on the total synthesis of Pateamine. In 2017, she came back to France as teaching assistant for 2 years, firstly in Le Mans working on methodology of organic synthesis in team of IMMM and secondly at engineering School – Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF) working on asymetric synthesis. She then stayed 1 more year in Clermont-Ferrand to work on extraction and phytochemistry study project in collaboration with PiLeJe Industry.
Julie OBLE
Maître.sse de conférence, Sorbonne Université
Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire
Twitter: @ObleJulie Bluesky: @oblejulie.bsky.social
Julie is an assistant professor at the Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire (IPCM), Sorbonne Université (SU) since 2010. She received in 2007 her PhD degree from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France). In 2007, she obtained a one-year postdoctoral position at the University of Montréal (Canada). After two further years as a postdoctoral fellow at SU, she joined in 2010 the Organometallic Reactivity and Catalysis for Synthesis team at IPCM.
Her research focuses on the development of new metal-catalyzed domino reactions toward the synthesis of heterocycles, homogeneous and quasi-homogeneous catalytic C-H activations and biomass valorization. Julie is currently treasurer of the Ile-de- France section at the Societé Chimique de France.
Stéphanie HALBERT
Maître.sse de conférence, Sorbonne Université
Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique
Stéphanie is an assistant professor at the Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Sorbonne Université since 2015. She obtained her PhD from the University of Montpellier. In 2013, she joined the Inorganic Organic and Organometallic Chemistry team at LCT for her postdoc before being recruited. Her research activities focuses on DFT studies of structure, properties, mechanisms and selectivity in catalysis or organic reactions. These theoretical works are in collaboration with experimental groups.
Stéphanie is currently Secretary of French Young Chemists’ Network RJ-SCF, member of the Ile-de- France section at the SCF and board member of SCF.
Aurélien DE LA TORRE
Chargé.e de Recherche CNRS, Université Paris Saclay
Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay
Twitter: @Auredelatorre Bluesky: @auredelatorre.bsky.social
Aurélien de la Torre is a CNRS researcher at the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay (ICMMO), Université de Paris-Saclay. After studying chemistry at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, he obtained his PhD from the University of Montpellier in 2014 under the supervision of Drs. Jean-Marie Galano and Camille Oger. He carried out postdoctoral research in the groups of Prof. Nuno Maulide at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Prof. Ilan Marek at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
In 2018, he joined the “Methodology, Synthesis and Therapeutical Molecules” team at ICMMO as a CNRS researcher. His research interests include asymmetric catalysis, cycloaddition reactions, cascade reactions and natural product synthesis. Since 2022 he is also a member of the Ile-de-France section board of the Société Chimique de France.
Candice BOTUHA
Maître.sse de conférence, Sorbonne Université
Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, Equipe Chembio
Her research focuses on medicinal chemistry and the development of molecular tools for bioimaging. She is currently working on the design and synthesis of 1,2,4-triazole-containing compounds with biological activities, as well as on the design and development of ESIPT fluorescent probes for bioimaging.
She is currently assistant secretary of the Ile-de-France section at the SCF.
Natacha KRINS
Maître.sse de conférences, Sorbonne Université
Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris
Natacha Krins is an assistant professor in the RMES (Reactive Materials for Electrochemical deviceS) team of the Laboratoire Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris (LCMCP) at Sorbonne Université. She obtained her PhD from the University of Liège (Belgium) in 2009. She did a 1-year postdoc between Belgium and Paris, followed by a 3 year-postdoc at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She integrated the LCMCP as a postdoc in 2013 and she was recruited as an assistant professor in 2014.
Her research activities focus on considering inorganic nanomaterials for energy applications (conversion and storage). She believes that CARE can revolution university teaching and research to better embrace the systemic of the transition challenges.
Natacha is currently a member of the Ile-de-France section at the SCF.
Manuel BARDAY
Maître.sse de conférences, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Synthèse Organique (SORG – UMR 8180)
Manuel is an associate professor at the Institut Lavoisier de Versailles (ILV) since 2023. He is part of the Synthèse Organique (SORG) team, in the Catalyse et Hétérocycles axis. He obtained his PhD in 2018 from the University of Liverpool under the supervision of Dr. Christophe Aïssa. Then, he came back to France for his post-doctoral studies. He stayed one year in the COBRA laboratory with Dr. Tatiana Besset (Rouen) and two years in the StereO group with Pr. Thierry Constantieux and Dr. Muriel Amatore (Marseille). He finally went for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at the RWTH institute with Dr. Christopher Teskey (Aachen).
His work focuses on the development of selective catalysed processes, involving either transition-metals or organocatalysts.
Geoffroy GUILLEMOT
Maître.sse de Conférences, Sorbonne Université
Institut Parisien de Chimie moléculaire
Geoffroy Guillemot is a graduate of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC). He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Floriani. He then carried out postdoctoral researches on catalysis, with Prof. Dr A. Pfaltz (oxidation catalysis, University of Basel) and Dr J.-M. Basset (homologation of propane, CPE-Lyon), and then on the activation of dioxygen and the effects of the second coordination sphere with Prof. O. Reinaud (Université René Descartes) and P. LeFloch (Ecole Polytechnique).
In 2008, he joined the Polyoxometalates Team at IPCM as an assistant and then associate professor of inorganic chemistry. His main focus is on the design of isolated site models using polyoxometalates for applications in metal-catalyzed atom transfers and redox reactions that involve the coupled transfers of electrons and protons.
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Florent DUCROZET
Maître.sse de Conférences, Université Paris-Saclay
Institut de Chimie Physique
Bluesky: @floducrozet.bsky.social
Florent is an associate professor at the Institut de Chimie Physique since 2024 where he is part of the TEMiC group. He obtained his Ph.D. from Paris-Saclay University in 2022 where he was working on the radical reactivity of nanodiamonds under the supervision of Pr. Cécile Sicard-Roselli (ICP, UPSaclay) and Dr. Jean-Charles Arnault (NIMBE/CEA). Then, he did a first postdoc at the Notre-Dame Radiation Laboratory (Indiana, USA) on low-temperature plasma irradiation with Pr. Sylwia Ptasinska and a second postdoc at the Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris with Pr. Marco Faustini and Dr. Cédric Boissière on porous/hollow catalysts synthesis by spray-drying. His work focuses on synthesizing new photo- or electrocatalysts and studying their radical reactivity at the interfaces. Florent is currently the president of the RJ-SCF Ile-de-France.
Marie KOBYLARSKI
Ingénieur.e de recherche, CEA Saclay
NIMBE (UMR3685)
Dr. Marie Kobylarski obtained her engineering diploma from the Paris Technical Institute of Chemistry (Chimie ParisTech-PSL) and a Master of Molecular Chemistry from PSL University and Sorbonne University. She completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Thibault Cantat and Dr. Jean-Claude Berthet at the CEA-Saclay/LCMCE in 2022, where she worked on developing innovative catalytic pathways for the reduction of carbon-oxygen bonds for the oxygenated plastics reductive depolymerization. In 2023, she joined the LCMCE group as a permanent staff member to develop her valorization project full-time based on her PhD results. She is currently working on this technology transfer project related to the valorization of nylon waste and she aims at creating her start-up.
Sylvain GIGOT
Doctorant, Université Paris-Saclay / CEA Saclay
NIMBE (UMR3685)
Since he graduated the Master « Green Chemistry, Catalysis and Environment » and the Master of Engineering in Chemical Sciences (CMI) at the University of Poitiers, Sylvain Gigot is currently a PhD student at CEA-Saclay (DRF/NIMBE/LCMCE-LEDNA), working on hydrogen storage via hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions of organic molecules (LOHC) using heterogeneous catalysis. He also did two Master internships at the University of Oulu, Finland and at IFPEN, Solaize, France.
Sylvain is currently the secretary of the Young Board of the French Chemical Society in Île-de-France.
Morane LUCAS
Doctorant.e, Ecole polytechnique
Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique
Morane Lucas obtained her Double Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry & Biology at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in 2020. With a keen interest in the interface between these two fields, Morane went on to complete two Master’s degrees: Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Paris-Cité University, and Organic Chemistry at the University of Paris-Saclay.
After two internships at the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and IPCM (Parisian Institute of Molecular Chemistry), she joined Ecole Polytechnique in 2023 for a PhD in chemical biology under the supervision of Dr Bastien Nay and Dr Christophe Le Clainche. Her research focuses on the synthesis of photoactivatable molecules for the spatiotemporal control of biological phenomena.
Morane joined the board of the Youth Network of the Ile-de-France section at the Société Chimique de France in 2024 and is currently one of the communication manager.
Laura ALTENSCHMIDT
Post-doctorant.e, Uppsala University
Department of Chemistry – Ångström
After finishing her master degree in Germany, Laura Altenschmidt moved to France for her PhD studies working on the assembly of magnetic nanoparticles for the development of new materials. In 2021, she received her PhD from the Université Paris-Saclay and continued as a postdoc on a project in collaboration with SOLEIL synchrotron using IR spectroscopy. Currently she is a postdoc in the structural chemistry group at the Ångström laboratory at Uppsala University. She is involved in a project concerning the recycling of Li-ion batteries. Her research interests are the study and understanding of the synthesis-structure-property relationships in materials using a combination of laboratory and synchrotron techniques.
Laura joined the board of the RJ-SCF of the Ile-de- France section at the Societé Chimique de France in 2022 and is currently Vice-présidente.
Angel LE TRI
Doctorant.e, Sorbonne Université
Institut Parisien de Chimie moléculaire
Angel is a first-year PhD student working on peptide-conjugated organometallic complexes targeting resistant cancers under the supervision of Dr.Benoit Bertrand at the IPCM, Sorbonne University. She arrived in France in 2018 to pursue her Bachelor’s and her Master’s in Chemistry and Life Sciences at Sorbonne University and PSL University. Passionate about the interface between Chemistry and Biology, she aspires to work on the conception of bioactive molecules for therapeutic application. Angel joined the board of the Youth Network on the Ile-de-France section at the Société Chimique de France in 2023 and is currently their vice-president.
Amanda Lyn ROBINSON
Post-doctorant.e, Université Paris-Saclay
Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay
Linkedin Bluesky: @alrchemist.bsky.social
Amanda is a coordination chemist with an interest for projects at the interface of biology and chemistry. She completed her PhD focused on bio-inspired iron complexes for oxygen activation under the supervision of Pr Frédéric Banse and Dr Jean-Noël Rebilly at the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay (ICMMO) in 2022. She then went on in her first post-doc to develop metal-organic frameworks and polyoxometalates for artificial photosynthesis under the direction of Dr Caroline Mellot-Draznieks at the Laboratoire de Chimie des Processus Biologiques of Collège de France. She now back at ICMMO, developing novel Prussian blue composite materials for biomedical applications in a second post-doc with Pr Laure Catala.
Constance LECOURT
Chargé.e de Recherche, Sorbonne Université
Institut Parisien de Chimie moléculaire
Constance Lecourt obtained her bachelor’s degree in chemistry – physics option from Sorbonne University (UPMC) in 2014, and her master’s degree in inorganic chemistry from the Claude Bernard University in Lyon in 2016. She then defended her PhD thesis in 2019, carried out at the LMI in Lyon under the supervision of Prof. Luneau and Dr. Desroches. She continued her research during a first postdoctoral period, in collaboration with Dr. Fillaud at LISE and Prof. Lescouëzec at IPCM in 2020. She then joined Dr. Jean-Pascal Sutter’s team at LCC as an ATER, and finally Dr. Lescop’s team at ISCR in 2021. She also had the opportunity to collaborate through international mobilities (Prof. Reber, Université de Montréal, Canada; Prof. Tretyakov, Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russia; Prof. Inoue, Hiroshima University, Japan; Prof. Scheer, University of Regensburg, Germany; Prof. Koshevoy, University of Eastern Finland). Coordination chemistry is at the heart of her research activities, with a focus on the synthesis of multifunctional heteropolymetallic compounds for the study of their photophysical, magnetic and switchable properties.
