Pierre Braunstein

Pierre Braunstein received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (France) and then spent a year at University College London, with Profs. R. S. Nyholm and R. J. H. Clark as a Royal Society/CNRS post-doctoral fellow. After his State Doctorate from the University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, he went to the Technical University Munich with Prof. E. O. Fischer (Nobel Laureate) as an Alexander-von-Humboldt post-doctoral fellow.

He became Research Director Exceptional Class within the CNRS, and is now Emeritus Research Director. He currently holds various positions in China: at Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Soochow University and Yangzhou University.

His broad research interests lie in the inorganic and organometallic chemistry of the transition and main group elements, where he has (co)authored almost 600 scientific publications and review articles. Focused on fundamental research, his work has also led to applications, ranging from homogeneous catalysis, e.g. ethylene oligomerization, to cluster-derived nanoparticles for heterogeneous catalysis and nanosciences.

He has received numerous national and international awards and honors. He is a member i.a. of the French Academy of Sciences, of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and since 2015, Head of the Division of Chemical Sciences in the European Academy of Sciences.

He was President of the Cercle Gutenberg from December 2006 to March 2019 and is Vice-President of the « Alfred-Kastler National Foundation » since 2007 (https://www.fnak.fr/en/our-objectives/), that were both founded by Guy Ourisson.

More information:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Braunstein