Rinaldo Poli#
| Membership Number: | 7132 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://rinaldo-poli.jimdofree.com/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5220-2515 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 08/2024, Emeritus Professor, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France
- 2005 - 2024 Professor, Institut National Polytechnique, Toulouse, France
- 2003 - 2005 Research Director, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France
- 1996 - 2004 Professor, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
- 1995 - 1996 Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- 1992 - 1995 Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- 1987 - 1992 Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- 1985 - 1987 Research Associate (post-doc), Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
Fields of Scholarship
- Hydrides and dihydrogen complexes
- Effects of the spin state in organometallic reactivity
- Biphasic catalysis with polymeric nanoreactors
- Controlled radical polymerization
- Chiral ligands, their coordination chemistry and catalytic applications
- High oxidation state aqueous organometallic chemistry and oxidation catalysis
- Intermolecular hydroamination of non-activated olefins
- Coordination adaptable networks.
- Homogeneous catalysis
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Grand Prix “Achille Le Bel” of the French Chemical Society
- 2020 “Membre Distingué” (Fellow) of the French Chemical Society
- 2020 Berthelot Medal of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2020 Jaffé prize of the “Fondation de l’Institute de France”
- 2010 Paolo Chini Memorial Lecture, delivered by the Italian Chemical Society
- 2018 Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2017 ChemPubSoc Fellow
- 2016 Franco-Brazilian chair, French Embassy in Brazil
- 2010 Senior Award of the “Division of Coordination Chemistry” of the French Chemical Society
- 2010 Senior Award of the “Interdivisional Group of Organometallic Chemistry” of the Italian Chemical Society
- 2008 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Wiedereinladung)
- 2007 Senior member of the “Institut Universitaire de France”
- 2003 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (Forschungsstipendium)
- 1992 Medaglia Nasini, delivered by the Italian Chemical Society
- 1992 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1992 - 1994), USA
- 1991 Exxon Education Foundation Award, USA
- 1990 Presidential Young Investigator (1990 - 1995), USA
- 1987 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Distinguished New Faculty (1987 - 1992), USA
- 1983 Giuseppe Stampacchia Award (University of Rome)
