Audrey AUFFRANT
CNRS Research Director
Email: audrey.auffrant@polytechnique.edu
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Audrey obtained her M2 degree in Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry in 1999 at University Pierre et Marie Curie as part of the ENS Ulm’s Magistere. She then completed her PhD in Molecular Chemistry in the same university working in the group of Drs F. and E. Rose to the development of pallado-catalyzed functionalization of tricarbonylmanganese arene. Then she joined for 2 years the group of Prof. Dr. F. Diederich at ETH Zürich to investigate polyethynylbutatriene systems. after coming back to France at University of Strasbourg to work with Drs. J.P. Sauvage and J.P. Collins on the synthesis of polypyridine iridium(III) complexes to study their photophysical properties. She was then hired by CNRS as Chargée de Recherche and joined the Heteroelements and Coordination laboratory (UMR7593) at Ecole Polytechnique to work with Dr. P. Le Floch on the coordination chemistry of heteroatomic ligands. From 2010 she has been conducting her research independently. She was awarded in 2010 with the CNRS Bronze medal. Her current research interests concern the development of P-based ligand systems, the study of their coordination chemistry focusing on abundant metals, and the applications of their complexes for catalysis, optic, or material science.
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