Clément Sanchez - Curriculum vitae#

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UNIVERSITY DIPLOMAS

• Engineer of l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (Major) 1978
• Doctorat ès Sciences (PhD in Physical Sciences) University of PARIS 6-Pierre et Marie Curie 1981

CAREER IN NATIONAL EDUCATION

• Attaché de Recherche CNRS (1978-1982)
• Chargé de Recherche CNRS (1982-1988)
• Director of Research II CNRS (1988-1995)
• Professor at l’Ecole Polytechnique (1991-2003)
• Director of Research I CNRS (1995-2006)
• Director of Research Exceptional Class CNRS (2006-2011)
• Director of the laboratory « Chimie de la Matière Condensée» (1999---)
• Co-Director of the laboratory « Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris » UMR CNRS 7574 (2000-2004)
• Director of the laboratory « Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris » UMR CNRS 7574 (2005-2013)
• Professor at the Collège de France, Chaire de « Chimie des Matériaux Hybrides » (2011---)

NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSABILITIES

• Member of the 33th section (Materials) of 'Commission de Spécialistes', Univ-Paris-VI, (1996-2008)
• Member of the 19th section (Materials) of 'Comité National du CNRS' (2000-2008)
• Membre of the Rerearch Directory of the section 15 of ‘Comité National du CNRS’ (2005-2008)
• Member of the ‘Directoire de la Recherche’, expert for chemistry, University-Paris VI, (2000-2006)

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC RESPONSABILITIES

• Scientific expert for Materials Science of CNRS-Industry CRIN Cell (1991-1994)
• Scientific expert for Sol-gel chemistry at the Center of Atomic Energy Le Ripault (since 2001)
• Scientific expert for DGA in Materials Chemistry since 2007
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Comitee of "SOLEIL" , the new French synchrotron
• Head of the Nanochemistry Division C’Nano Ile de France (2006-2009)
• Member of the Board «Maison de la Chimie » (2008---)
• Member of the Scientific council of AC Nanosciences-Nanostructures (2002-2004)
• Member of the Scientific council of ‘Action Matériaux-CNRS’ (2004)
• Member of the Scientific council of ‘ANR « Nanomatériaux » and Member of the directory’ (2005-2006)
• Scientific coordinator of the OFTA group on "Hybrid Materials" (1993-1996)
• Book " Matériaux Hybrides" Arago 17, Mai 1996, Ed Masson
• Scientific coordinator of the OFTA group on "Biomimetism and Materials" (1998- 2001)
• Book "Biomimétisme et Matériaux " Arago 25 , 2001, Ed Tech et Doc.
• Editor in Chief of the international Journal “New Journal of Chemistry”(2000-2004)
• Member of the Editorial Board of:
  • "Chemical Communication" (2000-2004)
  • "Journal of Materials Chemistry"(2005-2012)
• Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of:
  • "New Journal of Chemistry" (2005- 2009)
  • "Chemistry of Materials" (2004---)
  • "Chemical Society Reviews" (2011---)
• President of the France-Berkeley Foundation (2010---)

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION or CO-ORGANIZATION OF NATIONAL SYMPOSIA

• "Matériaux Intelligents" (Société Francaise de Physique, Rennes, 1994).
• "Matériaux Hybrides" Société Chimique de France (Bordeaux, 1997).
• "Nanosciences" Société Chimique de France (Rennes, 2000).
• "Les Journées Sol-Gel du CEA" (Tours, 2004, 2006, 2007).
• "Matériaux Fonctionnels Avancés: Des Nanocéramiques aux Hybrides" (Matériaux 2006, Dijon)
• "N3 Nanochimie, Nanomatériaux, Nanostructures » (Matériaux 2010, Nantes)

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION or CO-ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA

• 7th International Workshop on Glasses and Ceramics from Gels (Paris, 1993)
• 1st European Workshop on Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials (Bierville, France, 1993):
• "Better Ceramics Through Chemistry VI", Materials Research Society (San-Francisco, 1994)
• "B. C. T. C. VII, Hybrid Materials", Materials Research Society, (San-Francisco 1996)
• "Insights into New Materials" World Congress of the AICHE, (1996)
• "Hybrid Materials", Materials Research Society, (San-Francisco, 1998)
• REU International meeting on "Advanced Materials", REU NSF-CNRS (Gainesville 1999)
• "Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials", Materials Research Society, (San-Francisco, 2000)
• REU International meeting on "Advanced Materials", REU NSF-CNRS (Paris, 2000)
• "Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials", Materials Research Society, (San-Francisco, 2002)
• 3 EUROMAT Symposia on "Biomimetic and Bioinspired approaches to Functional Inorganic and Hybrid Materials", (Lausanne, 2003)
• "Hybrid Materials", Materials Research Society, (Boston, 2004)
• "Functional Hybrid Materials: Nanoscale Objects to Nanostructured Inorganic and Hybrid Materials", European-Materials Research Society, (Strasbourg, 2005).
• "Hybrid Materials", Materials Research Society, (San Francisco, 2007)
• 1st International Conference on "Hybrid Materials”, (Tours-France, 2009)
• International Conference on "Hybrid Materials II”, (Strasbourg-France, 2011)
• " Electronic Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Device Physics", Materials Research Society, (San Francisco, 2011)

- International Conference on "Hybrid Materials IV”, (Sitges-Spain, 2015) - International Conference on "Hybrid Materials V”, (Lisbonne-Portugal, 2017) - IUPAC -Centenary World Meeting 2019 (Paris –France) as President - International Conference on "Hybrid Materials VI”, (Sitges-Spain, 2019) -International Conference on "Hybrid Materials VII”, (Genova, Italy 2021) in preparation

EDITION of BOOKS and JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

• Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials 1993.
• "Better Ceramics Through Chemistry VI", Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, vol 346,1994
• Numéro special du New Journal of Chemistry, Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials, Oct 1994 (Guest Editor)
• "Better Ceramics Through Chemistry VII" Hybrid O-I Materials, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, vol 435,1996
• Numéro spécial du Journal of Sol-gel Science and Technology, Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials. 1995
• Hybrid O-I Materials, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, vol 539, 1998
• "Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials", Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, vol 528, 2000
• "Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials", Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, vol 726 , 2002
• "Functional Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials", Wiley VCH , vol XVII, 2003, ISBN 3-527-304843 2002
• "Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials", Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, vol 847 , 2004
• Themed Issue on "Functional Hybrid Materials", J. Mater. Chem., 215, vol 35-36, 2005
• Special Issue of the Symposium "Functional Hybrid Materials: Nanoscale Objects to Nanostructured Inorganic and Hybrid Materials", in Progress in Solid State Chemistry (33), 2005
• "Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials", Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Vl.1007, 2007
• Special Issue on "Recent progress made in Hybrid Materials Science", Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011

MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMITEE in INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS

• 6th International Workshop on Glasses and Ceramics from Gels (Séville, Espagne, october 1991)
• Perspectives in Inorganic Chemistry, (Brixen Italy, 1995)
• Perspectives in Inorganic Chemistry, (Brixen Italy, 1996)
• Perspectives in Inorganic Chemistry, (Brixen Italy, 1997)
• SPIE International Symposium “Optical Devices for Fiber Communication”, Boston, september 1999
• 13th International Zeolite Conference (Montpellier, France, July 8–13, 2001)
• Silica –2001, Mulhouse Sept 2001 France
• XIV International Symposium of OrganoSilicon Chemistry, Würsburg, july 2005
• International Mesostructured Materials Symposium, Cap Town, May 2004
• Symposium “Nanoporous Materials IV” june 2005 Niagara Falls, Canada.
• International Mesostructured Materials Symposium, Shangai, sept 2006.
• International Materials Symposium CIMTEC, Sicile, July 2006.
• Essonn’ European School on Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, Grenoble Sept 2005-2006-2007-2008
• Nanoporous V conference, Vancouver 2008.
• EUCHem 2008 Conference, Turin, Italy.
• International Advisory Board of the International Sol-Gel conference, Hangzhou, China, 2011

SCIENTIFIC DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS

• Recipient (1978) of the Major Medal of the ENSCP
• Recipient (1983) of a NATO Fellowship
• Laureate (1988) of the IBM Price for « Materials Science »
• Laureate (1994) of the Price from the French Chemical Society (Solid State Chemistry Division)
• Recipient (1995) of the CNRS Silver Medal
• Laureate (2000) of the Yvan Pueches Price of the French Academy of sciences
• Laureate(2000) of the ADFAC –University of Paris VI Price for research valorisation
• Recipient (2007) of the Lavoisier Medal CEA Le Ripault
• Catalan-Sabatier Award of the Real Sociedad Espagnola de Quimica (2007)
• Laureate (2008) of the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
• Lecturer (2008) of the Otto-Warburg-Vorlesung, University of Bayreuth
• Guest Professor of the University of Jilin-China (2009-)
• Guest Professor of the University of Wuhan-China (2009-)
• Recipient (2009) of the P. Süe Award of the French Chemical Society
• Recipient (2010) of the Institut Français du Petrole Award of the French Academy of Sciences
• Nominated Foreing Academician of the Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia, Spain 2011.
• Nominated Academician of the European Academia of Sciences, 2010.
• Nominated Academician of the French Academie of Sciences, 2011.
• Nominated Academician of Academia Europaea, 2011.

- Nominated Academician of Academia Europaea, 2012. - Nominated Fellow of the Material Research Society, 2012. - Lecturer of the Nippon Sheet Glass-UCLA lecture, University of Los Angeles : 2014. - Recipient of François Sommer Award « Man and Nature » 2014. - Nominated Foreing Academician of the Royal Academia of Belgium, 2014. - Recipient of Eni Award « Protection of the Environment » 2014. - Nominated Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014. - Recipient of the Career Award of the International Sol-Gel Society 2015. - Guest Professor of the ETH Zurich (2016) - Advanced Materials PSA Award 2016 - Chevalier dans l’ordre national de la légion d’honneur (2017) - Highest Award (Grande Médaille) of the French Society for Materials & Metallurgy (SF2M) (2017) - Nominated Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics (2017) - Nominated Academicien of the French Academy of Technologies (2018) - International Chair Francqui Award (U. Louvain-U. Namur- U. Leuven) (2018) - Prof C.N.R Rao Oration Lecture Award of University of Delhi (2018) - CNR Rao Award Lecture of the Chemical Research Society of India (Raipur-2018) - Nominated Fellow of the ISGS (International Sol-Gel Society), 2018. - Nominated Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Resarch Society of India (CRSI) 2018

TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFERT, INDUSTRIAL VALORISATION

• Basic research performed since 20 years on the field of hybrid materials yield to numerous applications (for example see the patents and the review article on applications, J. Mater Chem.2005- CHEM. SOC. REV.2011)
• Leader of many European and industrial contracts and grants (Rhodia, Saint-Gobain, IFP, Corning, Protex,Rhône-Poulenc, Bouyges, Lafarge, l’Oréal, CEA, EADS, Sumitomo, Air liquide, Materis, Solvay…),
• High valorisation of the research on Hybrid Materials (co-inventor of 54 patents).
• ADFAC-UPMC Award for Research valorisation for Hybrid Materials (2000)

RESEARCH INTERESTS and FIELDS of EXPERTISE

• Soft chemistry based routes to nanostructured materials. Sustainable chemistry (chimie douce)
• Sol-Gel chemistry from metal alkoxides precursors
• Templated synthesis of inorganic gels and mesoporous coatings (self-assembly)
• Designed construction of hybrid organic-inorganic materials (metal oxides based on Si, Sn, Ti, Zr ...)
• Optical, electrical and mechanical properties of hybrid materials
• Bio-inspired approaches to hierarchically structured inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic materials
• Hybrid Biomaterials
• Applications of hybrids in the domains of environment, health and energy

SUMMARY of PRODUCTIONS
More than 520 Publications in journals, 15 Book Chapters, more than 50 Patents: 14 Books as Editor or Co-editor, more than 420 Invited Conferences.