Pierre Braunstein - Curriculum Vitae#

Position: Emeritus Research Director with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Education:

• Ingénieur-Chimiste Ecole Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse 1969 Major de promotion
• 1971 PhD with Jean Dehand, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (France)
• Nov. 1971–Oct. 1972 Honorary Research Fellow with R. S. Nyholm, R. J. H. Clark, Department of Chemistry, University College London, London (UK)
• 1974 Doctorat des Sciences (State Doctorate), University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
• Nov. 1974–Oct. 1975 Humboldt Fellow with E. O. Fischer, Anorganisch-Chemisches Laboratorium der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen, Munich (Germany)

Major awards since 2000:

2002 Otto-Warburg Award, Germany; 2003 Chini Memorial Lecture, Italy; 2003 Nyholm Medal and Lecture, UK; 2004 Grand Prix de l'Institut Francais du Petrole de l'Academie des Sciences, France; 2006 Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Beijing; 2008 Descartes–Huygens Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and French Academy of Sciences; 2013 Sacconi Medal and Lecture (Italian Chemical Society), International Award of the Japanese Society of Coordination Chemistry, Award of the International Organic Chemistry Foundation (Kyoto, Japan), Grand Prix Pierre Süe of the French Chemical Society; Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore (2013-2017); 2015 Foreign Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, elected Head of the Chemistry Division of the European Academy of Sciences; 2016 – 2019 Visiting Professor at Qingdao University of Science and Technology (China); 2017 - 2019 Qiushi Chair Professor of Zhejiang University (China); 2017 - 2020 Chair Professor Soochow University (China); 2017 – 2022 Appointed Academic “Master” of the “111 Project” Rubber-Plastics Materials and Engineering Overseas Expertise Introduction Center for Discipline Innovation, Qingdao University of Science and Technology (China); 2018 - 2023 Distinguished Honorary Professor Yangzhou University; 2018 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Hong-Kong.

Hobbies:

Classical music, seeing art exhibitions with the family (unfortunately not often enough!)

RESEARCH AREAS:

Fundamental and applied molecular chemistry, creation of new chemical bonds (metal-metal), of new complex molecules, elaboration of concepts rationalizing structure-reactivity relationships, applications in homogeneous catalysis (ethylene oligomerization, cooligomerization olefins/CO and ethylene/polar olefins, transfer hydrogenation of ketones, alkane activation, deshydrogenative coupling of stannanes), nanomaterials from molecular precursors, applications in heterogeneous catalysis (carbonylation of organic nitro derivatives to isocyanates)

• Synthesis et complexation of polytopic functional ligands
• New organic molecules with delocalized π system (quinonoids)
• Chemistry of functional enolates and their metal complexes (synthesis, characterization, reactivity, catalysis)
• Synthesis and reactivity of bimetallic silyl complexes (new molecular interactions and catalysis)
• Molecular clusters (concepts, synthesis, structures, reactivity, catalysis)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• Coordination Chemistry and Cluster Chemistry in D.E.A. "Chimie des Métaux de Transition et Catalyses" then "Chimie des Métaux de Transition et Ingénierie Moléculaire”, Strasbourg (since 1980/81).
• Chemistry of the metal-metal bonding in Maîtrise de chimie, ULP (since 2001/02), the Mastère (2005/06)
• Chemistry of the metal-metal bonding (8 h) at the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal (Socrates-Erasmus programme, since 2001/02)

TRAINING-THROUGH-RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

• Supervision of 40 DEA (Master) students (Transition Metal Chemistry and Catalysis)
• Supervision of 55 Doctoral theses defended
• Collaboration with 55 post-docs and invited professors.

ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS and SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES OF GENERAL INTEREST

Regional

• Director of the Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry (Université Louis Pasteur, UMR 7177 CNRS)
• Member of the Scientific Council of the Chemistry Department (Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg).
• President of the Regional Section Strasbourg of the French Chemical Society (1989 - 1990).
• Nominated by the CNRS to the Comité Consultatif Régional de la Recherche et de la Technologie (1994 - 1998).
• President of the « Cercle Gutenberg » (2007- ...)

National

• President of the Coordination Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society (1990 - 1994).
• Elected member of the Council of the French Chemical Society (1997 - 2001)
• Member of the Comité National de la Chimie (1995 - 2004)
• Appointed by the CNRS or the Ministry of Research in various national evaluation committees
• President of the Alumni of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse (2006 - 2012)
• Vice-Président de la Fondation Nationale Alfred Kastler (2007 - ….)
• Member of the Council of the « Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie » (2008 - ...)
• Organization or co-organization of 13 national scientific conferences

International

• Appointed by the CNRS or the Ministry of Research in various international evaluation committees (PROCOPE, bilateral programme CNRS/DFG,...)
• President of the coordination committee of the European Science Foundation Network "Metal Clusters" (1992-95)
• Appointed by the Council of the European Science Foundation in the EURESCO Committee (2002-2004)
• Expert for the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (Beirat for the Programmes Nanotechnologies (2002-2006) and Environnement of the FZK Karlsruhe) (2002-2007)
• Elected Member of the Council of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2005-2009)
• Member of Panel PE5 “Materials and synthesis” - Advanced Grants of the European Research Council (since 2010)
• Expert for the evaluation of the research programmes of the NSF, Petroleum Research Funds (USA), European Commission, European Science Foundation, EPSRC (GB), CNR (Italy), DFG (numerous individual grants, SFB and SPP programmes), Volkswagen and A. von Humboldt Foundations (Germany), Fonds national (Switzerland), Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) - Austrian Science Fund and various research organisations in Canada, Spain, Hong-Kong, Israël, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan.
• Expert for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the evaluation of the excellence initiative (2006 - 2007)
• Appointed member of the Strategy Commission of the German National Research Council (Wissenschaftsrat + DFG) for the evaluation of the universities of excellence) (2011 - …)
• Referee for appointments and promotions of scientists from Germany, USA, UK, Canada, China (Hong-Kong, Taiwan), Spain, The Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland....
• Co-founder in 1999 with M. Veith (Sarrebrücken, Germany) of the first European Training Network/Europäisches Graduiertenkolleg" (GRK 532 of the DFG) between the Universities of Sarrebrücken, Luxembourg, Metz, Nancy and Louis Pasteur Strasbourg).
• Organization or co-organization of 25 international scientific conferences.

EDITORIAL FUNCTIONS

• Applied Organometallic Chemistry - Member of the “Advisory Board” (2009- …)
• Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. - Member of the Advisory Board (1993 - 1997)
• Comptes Rendus Acad. Sciences (Paris) - Member of the Advisory Board (1994 - 2001) - Editor-in-chief (2002 - ...)
• Coord. Chem. Rev. - Member of the Editorial Board (1997 - 2007), “Guest Editor” of "Inorganic Chemistry in France", Coord. Chem. Rev. 1988, 178-180, 1-1846.
• J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. - Regional Advisory Editor (1989 - 1993) - Member of the Editorial Board (1994 - 1995), Associate Editor (1996 - 2001)
• J. Cluster Science - Member of the Editorial Board (1990 - ...)
• J. Organomet. Chem. - Member of the Editorial Board (1994 - 2001)
• Monatshefte für Chemie/Chemical Monthly: - Member of the Advisory Board (1998 - 2000), Regional Editor (2001 - ...)
• New Journal of Chemistry - Member of the Editorial Board (1985 - 1990), Associate Editor (1990 - 2002), Member of the International Advisory Editorial Board (2003 - ), Guest Editor of "Recent Advances in Di- and Polynuclear, Chemistry", New J. Chem. 1988, 12, 307-720. Guest Editor with W. A. Herrmann of "New Perspectives in Organometallic Chemistry", New J. Chem. 1990, 14, 389-587.Guest Editor with P. Sobota and J. J. Ziolkowski (Poland) of the "Proceedings of the 13th Summer School on Coordination Chemistry”, Polanica-Zdroj, Poland, 2-8/6/1996, New J. Chem. 1997, 21, 647-846.
• Organometallics - Member of the Advisory Board (1991 - 1993)- Guest Editor of "Inorganic Chemistry in France", Coord. Chem. Rev. 1988, 178-180, 1-1846.
• Editor with P. R. Raithby and L. A. Oro of “Metal Clusters in Chemistry”, Wiley-VCH, 1999 (3 vol., 1850 pp)

SCIENTIFIC DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS

• NOELTING Award of the Ecole Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse 1969
• Thesis Award from the « Association pour le Développement des Relations avec l'Industrie 1973 auprès des Universités de Strasbourg ».
• Award of the Division of Physical Chemstry and Mineral Chemistry of the French Chemical Society 1975
• Prix d'Aumale of the French Institute nominated by the French Academy of Sciences 1983
• 1st Greater Manchester Inorganic Lecture - UMIST - Manchester (UK) 1985
• Weissberger Williams Lecture - Kodak Research Laboratories- Rochester (USA) 1986
• Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis 1988
• Médaille d'Argent (Silver Medal) of the CNRS 1989
• Max-Planck Forschungspreis (jointly with H. Vahrenkamp, Germany) 1991
• Elected Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Sciences 1993
• John van Geuns Lecture, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 1993
• Grand Prix Raymond Beer of the French Chemical Society 1995
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem FRSC) May 1996
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow - TOKYO (Japon) April 1997
• 1st Awardee of the franco-spannish Prize Paul Sabatier - Miguel Catalán between the French Chemical Society and the Royal Spannish Chemical Society 1998
• Senior Visitor, Académie des Sciences/Royal Society 1998
• Grignard - Georg Wittig Prize between the French Chemical Society and the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker 1999
• Otto-Warburg Prize (Germany) 2002
• Elected Corresponding Member of the Saragossa Academy of Sciences (Spain) June 2002
• Elected Member of Academia Europaea 2002
• Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences 2002
• Chini Memorial Lecture (Italian Chemical Society) 2003
• Nyholm Lecture and Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry) 2003
• Grand Prix of the Institut Français du Pétrole of the French Academy of Sciences 2004
• Elected Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2005
• Elected Member of the French Academy of Sciences 2005
• Honorary Professor – Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing (China) 2006
• John van Geuns Lecture, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 2007
• Descartes-Huygens Prize (Dutch Academy of Sciences) 2008
• Sacconi Medal and Lecture (Italian Chemical Society) 2013
• International Award of the Japanese Society of Coordination Chemistry 2013
• Award of the International Organic Chemistry Foundation (Kyoto, Japan) 2013
• Grand Prix Pierre Süe of the French Chemical Society 2013
• Distinguished Member of the French Chemical Society 2013
• “Technische Universität Munich (TUM) Ambassador” 2013
• “Distinguished Visiting Scientist”, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapour 2013-2017
• Foreign Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Portugal) 2015
• Chair of the Chemistry Division of the European Academy of Sciences 2015
• Visiting Professor Qingdao University of Science and Technology (China) 2016-2019
• Qiushi Chair Professor of Zhejiang University (China) 2017-2019
• Chair Professor Soochow University (China) 2017-2020
• “Academic “Master” of the “111 Project” “Rubber-Plastics Materials and Engineering Overseas Expertise Introduction Center for Discipline Innovation”, Qingdao University of Science and Technology (Chine), 2017– 2022.
• Adjunct Distinguished Chair Professor à l’Université de Yangzhou (Chine) 2018-2022
• Distinguished Visiting Scholar Hong-Kong University, 2018

FOREIGN APPOINTMENTS

• Invited Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University CONSTANCE (Germany) Oct. 1984
• Distinguished Visiting Scholar - Departement of Chimistry of the University of ADELAIDE (Australia) July 1994
• Invited Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of SARAGOSSA (Spain) Sept. 1997
• Invited Professor at the Academia Sinica Taipei Dec. 2002
• Honorary Professor – Chinese Academy of Sciences – BEIJING (China) April 2006
• Nominated “Technische Universität Munich” (TUM) Ambassador 2013
• Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, SINGAPOUR 2013-2017

EXTENDED FOREIGN APPOINTMENTS

• Nov. 1971 - Oct. 1972 Department of Chemistry - University College London, LONDON (G.B) - Professors R. S. NYHOLM, M. L. TOBE and R. J. H. CLARK, Honorary Research Assistant - CNRS/Royal Society Exchange Programme
• Nov. 1974 - Oct. 1975 Anorganisch-Chemisches Laboratorium der Technischen Universität München, MUNICH (Germany) - Professor E. O. FISCHER. Alexander von Humboldt Fellow