The 12th edition of the French-Italian Chemistry Days (JFIC) will be hosted in Nice on April 9–10, 2026, at the Université Côte d’Azur (Parc Valrose, Grand Château de Valrose). This prestigious event stands as a key meeting point for the French and Italian chemical communities, offering a unique platform to exchange cutting-edge knowledge, foster collaborations, and highlight the latest scientific breakthroughs. Covering a broad spectrum of chemistry — from organic and bioorganic chemistry, green chemistry, material chemistry, computational chemistry and AI, and medicinal and food chemistry — the conference will showcase progress in synthesis, characterization, and analysis of innovative compounds and materials.
The scientific program will be enriched by plenary lectures delivered by internationally renowned experts, alongside oral and poster presentations by early-career researchers (PhD students and postdoctoral fellows) selected for their excellence by the Scientific Committee. In total, the two-day program will feature 4 plenary lectures, including the 2 distinguished awards recognizing outstanding contributions from a French and an Italian chemist, 5 invited talks, and over 39 oral communications. Special emphasis will be placed on supporting the next generation of scientists: poster sessions and oral contributions will be driven by young chemists, and 3 presentations will honor the 2026 Thesis Prizes, awarded by the South-PACA section of the French Chemical Society (SCF) and the regional sections of Piemonte – Valley d’Aosta and Liguria of the Società Chimica Italiana (SCI).
By bringing together more than 100 chemists from both countries, the 12th JFIC will not only celebrate the long-standing Franco-Italian collaboration in chemistry but also provide an exceptional opportunity to build new partnerships, inspire scientific innovation, and strengthen the ties between senior researchers and emerging talents.

Barbara Bonelli received the PhD in Chemical Science from the Università degli Studi di Torino, under the supervision of Prof. Edoardo Garrone. Then, she moved to the Department of Applied Science and Technology of Politecnico di Torino, where she is currently responsible for the Vibrational Spectroscopy lab and, in 2012, established the Surf-CheM (Surface Chemistry of Materials, www.scm.polito.it) research group. Born scientifically as a physical-chemist and a spectroscopy expert, at Politecnico she expanded her scientific interests to materials science and technology, and chemical engineering, focusing on the synthesis and characterization of (nano)materials for gas adsorption/storage; energy storage&production; heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis (including water splitting, CO₂ reduction and advanced oxidation processes for water remediation) and biomedical applications (including biomolecules detection and the study of nanomaterials toxicity and ecotoxicity). In 2019, she has been Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry of MIT (USA), in the framework of a MITOR program with Prof. Moungi Bawendi. In 2017, she has been Visiting Professor at Universidad Catolica de Temuco and at Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Chile). In 2020, she has been Visiting Researcher at Universidad de Las Islas Baleares (Spain). In 1997: Visiting Researcher at the Instituto Superior Tecnico de Lisboa (Portugal). She currently coordinates the activities of the Departmental Teaching Committee. At present, she published ca 207papers in peer-reviewed journal and holds three patents. She took part to several national and international conferences, nine times as an invited speaker.

Prof. Dr. Francesca Spyrakis – Full Professor, University of Torino

Laurence Charles has been a Professor of Chemistry at Aix Marseille University since 2005 and conducts her research within the Institut de Chimie Radicalaire (ICR, UMR 7273), which she co-directed from 2012 to 2023. She leads a team of seven researchers working in mass spectrometry, NMR, and EPR.

She graduated as an engineer from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (now Sigma Clermont) in 1992 and worked as a laboratory manager at the Institut Louise Blanquet in Clermont-Ferrand from 1992 to 1999. At the same time, she obtained a DEA (postgraduate diploma) in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Lyon 1 in 1994 and completed her PhD at the University of Paris 6 under the supervision of Professor Jean-Claude Tabet in 1999. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Purdue University (USA) under Professor R. Graham Cooks (2000–2001), she worked as a laboratory manager at Sanofi-Synthélabo (2001–2002) before starting her academic career at Aix Marseille University in 2003.

Specialized in mass spectrometry, her work combines fundamental research—focused on ionization and fragmentation mechanisms of synthetic polymers—with applied projects on the structural characterization of macromolecules with complex architectures. Since 2015, she has been developing MS/MS sequencing methods to read information encoded in the backbone of digital polymers designed for data storage. Co-recipient, with Dr. Didier Gigmes (ICR, Marseille) and Jean-François Lutz (ISIS, Strasbourg), of the Academic Innovation Award granted in 2024 by the French Polymer Group, and winner of the Senior Researcher Award granted in 2025 by the Physical Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society, Laurence Charles is the author of nearly 200 articles and two patents.

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Dr. Olivier Chuzel received his PhD from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Olivier Riant, after completing a DEA at Université Claude Bernard Lyon I. Following his doctoral studies, he carried out postdoctoral research at Université Paris XI (Orsay) in the group of Dr. Emmanuelle Schulz. After a one-year ATER position at the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris in collaboration with Dr. Virginie Vidal, he was appointed Maître de Conférences (Associate Professor) at Aix-Marseille Université in 2008, within the Department of Chemistry, where he teaches and conducts his research at the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille (CNRS UMR 7313). In 2024, he successfully obtained his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR). Dr. Olivier Chuzel was awarded the Guy Ourisson Prize at the 59th GECO meeting in 2018. His research interests include synthetic methodology, enantioselective metal and organic catalysis, boron chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, surface catalysis, and the interfaces between chemistry, materials science, physics, and biology. For more details about the Dr. Olivier Chuzel and his research, click here.

Dr. Élise Dumont graduated from ENS Paris and obtained her PhD in chemistry from Université Paris VI in 2006, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jean-Marie Lehn and Prof. Dr. Bernard P. Roques. She then pursued postdoctoral research at the Australian National University with Prof. Dr. Leo Radom, and at UCSF with Prof. Dr. J. Andrew McCammon. After serving as Associate Professor and later Full Professor at ENS de Lyon, where she also chaired the Department of Chemistry, she has been Professor at Université Côte d’Azur and a member of the Institut de Chimie de Nice (CNRS UMR 7272) since 2022. As a specialist in computational chemistry and biochemistry, her research focuses on multiscale modeling of damaged DNA, G-quadruplexes, and protein–ligand interactions, at the interface of supramolecular chemistry and structural biology. Recipient of several distinctions, including a nomination to the Institut Universitaire de France, she is also actively engaged in international scientific activities, notably through the co-organization of the Franco-Chinese Conference in Theoretical Chemistry (2025).

Dr. Raphaël Rodriguez – Directeur de Recherche à l’Institut Curie

The Scientific Committee is composed of the members of the SCF PACA, Liguria and Piemonte – Valley d’Aosta sections and of the local organizing committee.

Other members from Piemonte – Valley d’Aosta

Local Organizing Committee: Jade Dussart-Gautheret, Romain Melot, Véronique Michelet, Kristina Plevova.