Pierre Dixneuf#
| Membership Number: | 6112 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://phdixneuf.univ-rennes1.fr/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3025-6969 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Emeritus Professor for Research , CNRS Institut des Sciences Chimiques, University of Rennes 1
- 2001 - 2004 Vice president for Research of the University of Rennes 1
- 2000 - 1/2002-3 Director of CNRS Research Institut chimie de Rennes University of Rennes 1
- 1996 - 11/1999-12 Deputy Director of CNRS, National Institute of Chemistry, CNRS headquaters Paris
- 1994 Exceptional Class Professor at University of Rennes 1
- 1991 - 2/1991-7 : 6 month Invited professor at Freie Universitäd Berlin as A. von Humboldt laureate
- 1988 1rst Class Professor at University of Rennes 1
- 1978 2nd Class Professor at University of Rennes 1
- 1971 - 10/1972-9 Associate researcher at CNRS for Post doc with Prof Lappert University of Sussex UK
- 1970 Associate Professor Université de Rennes 1, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Alkene metathesis
- Metal-Carbene, -vinylidene, -allenylidene complexes
- Organometallic Ruthenium complexes
- Carbon-rich metal complexes
- Homogeneous catalysis
- Catalytic incorporation of CO2
- Enantioselective catalysis
- Catalytic activation of alkynes
- C-H bond activation/functionalisation
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Portuguese Chemical Society Award for Chemistry
- 2020 Elected Foreign Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India
- 2020 First first Asima Chatterjee Foundation International award, University of Calcutta
- 2018 Honorary professor of Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China
- 2017 Elected Member of Portugal academy of sciences
- 2014 First Prize of the Chinese Chemical Society to a French Chemist
- 2014 Elected Member of European Academy Sciences and Arts
- 2014 Catalan Prize of the Spanish Chemical Society
- 2014 Honorary professor of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
- 2009 Honorary professor of Qing Hua University, Hinschu, Taiwan
- 2006 Sacconi medal of the Chemical Society of Italy and of the Sacconi Fundation
- 2006 Institut Français du Pétrole Grand prix of the French Académie des sciences
- 2005 Honorary professor of Anhui Normal University
- 2001 Grignard-Wittig Prize of the Chemical Society of Germany GDCh
- 2000 Achille Le Bel award of the French Chemical Society
- 2000 Elected Member of the « Institut universitaire de France »
- 1996 JSPS Award (University of Tokyo)
- 1996 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Waterloo, Canada
- 1994 French Académie des Sciences award “M. de la Charlonie”
- 1990 Research laureate of the Alexander von Humboldt Fundation
