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Alain Demourgues

Alain Demourgues

Dr Alain DEMOURGUES is working at ICMCB-CNRS-UMR5026 since october 1993 as Research Fellow. He got his PhD in solid state chemistry at University of Bordeaux in 1992 working on high oxidation state oxides, then 2 post-docs in IBM-Almaden (USA) and Daresbury-Synchrotron (UK). He became Research Director (Senior Scientist) at CNRS in october 2008.

He received IBM-France award in 1993 (Young scientist in Materials Science), SFC (Société Française de Chimie) award in 2003 (Solid State Chemistry division) and Lamb award (French academy of science) in 2019. He was consulting scientist from 1998 at RHODIA-SOLVAY in the field of Solid State Chemistry, Redox and opto-electronic properties to 2016. His research topics concern Solid State Chemistry and Mixed Anions Compounds involving Fluorine: inorganic syntheses and compositions, structural features and UV-Visible-NIR absorption, reactivity and ionic/electronic properties. He contributes to 145 publications (h-factor 33) and 11 patents and gave 60 invited conference (3 plenary lectures) and 47 in international symposia. He was in charge of 23 industrial contracts and directed 27 PhD students. 

He organized as chairman, the 14th European Symposium on Solid State Chemistry (14th ECSSC) in Bordeaux in July 2013. He was invited as a Keynote speaker in July 2016 at the Gordon Research Conference (Solid State Chemistry Division) and the title of the lecture was : Tailoring the composition and structural features to tune the opto-electronic properties of mixed-anions compounds where Fluorine is a key element’. He is in charge from 2022 to 2027 of IRP-CNRS (International Research Project) devoted to solid state chemistry & mixed anions compounds, involving 4 french universities (IMN-Nantes, UCCS-Lille, ISCR-Rennes and ICMCB-Bordeaux) and Kyoto University (Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Kyoto, Japan).