Louis Fensterbank#
| Membership Number: | 6651 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ipcm.fr/FENSTERBANK-Louis |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0001-7120 |
Present and Previous Positions
- From 10/2023 Professor at Collège de France, Paris, Chair “Activations in Molecular Chemistry"
- 2018 Exceptional First Class Professor, Sorbonne Université, Paris
- 2017 - 2022 Head of the "Institut Parisien de chimie Moléculaire", Sorbonne Université, Paris
- 2007 - 2014 Director of the Master of Chemistry of Paris-Centre
- 2004 Second Class Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
- 1995 CNRS Research Fellow, Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
- 1994 - 1995 Temporary Lecturer, Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
- 1990 - 1993 Research Assistant, State University of New York at Stony Brook, United States
- 1989 - 1990 Teaching Assistant State University of New York at Stony Brook, United States
Fields of Scholarship
- Photochemistry and photocatalysis, electron transfer and energy transfer
- Radical chemistry, Single Electron Transfer (SET) catalysis
- Methods and applications in organic chemistry
- Flow processes
- Organometallic electrophilic catalysis (Au, Pt, Ir, Ag)
- Heterochemistry
- Function molecules
- Mechanistic studies (DFT) and determinations
- Functionalized nanoparticles (Au, Cu...)
- Integrated steps to reach molecular complexity
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Chair “Activations in Molecular Chemistry” at Collège de France, Paris
- 2021 Senior Member at "Institut Universitaire de France”
- 2017 Silver Medal of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- 2016 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2016 Organic Chemistry Division Prize of the French Chemical Society
- 2014 Clavel-Lespiau Prize of the French Academiy of Sciences
- 2008 Junior Member at "Institut Universitaire de France”
