Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONNAL EXPERIENCE
1998-now Group Leader and Co-director (CNRS Research Director since 2004)
at the European Institute of Chemistry and Biology, Bordeaux, France
Ongoing Subjects :
- Foldamers, Biomimetic chemistry of nucleic acids and peptides
- Dynamic combinatorial chemistry
- Molecular and supramolecular chirality in surfactants assemblies
1995/98 Research Assistant (CNRS research assistant position) in the Laboratoire de Chimie Supramoléculaire, Université of Strasbourg (France), (supervisor: Prof. J.-M. Lehn)
Subjects : - Combinatorial aspects of supramolecular chemistry
- Gemini surfactants
1994/95 Post-Doctoral Fellow, in the Laboratoire de Chimie Génétique
(supervisor: Dr. Jean-Paul Behr), Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (France).
Subject: Recognition of DNA Sequences by Strand Replacement with Polyamino-
Oligonucleotides.
EDUCATION
1999 Habilitation diploma
Committee: Profs. J. S. Candau, J.-Y. Lallemand, A. Lattes, J.-M. Lehn, H. Ringsdorf
1990/94 PhD Thesis in Organic Chemistry, University of Paris 6
Performed jointly at the Department of Chemistry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (USA), and at the Département de Chimie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (France). Research advisors: Prof. J. Rebek Jr. (MIT) and Dr. C. Rolando (ENS).
Committee: Profs. A. Collet, A. Lattes, A. Rassat, J. Rebek, C. Rolando
Subject: From Molecular Recognition to Catalysis: Synthesis and Study of Organic
Enzyme Models.
1990 Bachelor of Science, in chemistry, at l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
1989 National entrance exam at l’Ecole Normale Supérieure; rank: first.
2009 Invited Professor, Nagoya University
2008 Jecker Prize of the French Academy of Sciences
2003 Acros Young Chemist prize of the organic division of the French chemical society
2003 Concordia-Merck-Frosst Lectureship. Canada
2001 Silver medal of the Société d’Encouragement au Progrès
1999 Bronze medal of the CNRS
1987 Olympiads of chemistry, national laureate
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS
- From June 2008, Co-director of the European Institute of Chemistry and Biology
- Elected member of the ‘Conseil d’UFR de Chimie de l’Université de Bordeaux’ (Administration council of chemistry department). 2008-
- Member of the ‘Directoire Scientifique’ (Steering Committee) of the joint unit Université Bordeaux – CNRS UMR5248. 2007-
- Member of the ‘Comité de direction’ (Steering Committee) of the European Institute of Chemistry and Biology. 2007-
- Vice-President of ABC (Association Bordelaise de Cristallographie). 2006-
- Nominated member of the ‘CNU’ (National council of universities, section 31) 2004
- Regularly acting as an expert for PhD thesis and Habilitation committees (about 4 per year), for various funding organizations in France (ANR, MRT, CNRS, Conseils Régionaux), the USA (NSF), the Netherlands (NWO), Canada (NSERC), Taiwan (NTU ERP). Routinely acting as a reviewer for international Journals.
- 2011-to date, member of the International editorial advisory board of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry
- From 2012, member of the International editorial advisory board of the new Journal ChemPlusChem
- Member of the editorial advisory board of “Supramolecular Chemistry: from Molecules to Nanomaterials”, Wyley VCH, 2011.
- Co-editor of the book: "Foldamers: structure, properties and applications", Wyley-VCH, May 2007, ISBN 3527315632.
- 100 publications since 1993, including 5 articles cited over 240 times and 12 articles cited over 80 times – 4200 citations (over 40 per article) – an average 550 per year in the last three years – h factor 36
- Publications in high impact factor Journals: Nature (2), Science (1), PNAS (2), Nature Chem. (1), Nano Letters (1), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (13), J. Am. Chem. Soc. (18), Chem. Eur. J. (12), Chem. Commun. (10)
- I. Huc, H. Jiang, book chapter, Organic foldamers and helices, in “Supramolecular Chemistry: from Molecules to Nanomaterials”, Wyley VCH 2011.
- L. Cuccia, I. Huc, book chapter, Foldamers Based on Local Conformational Preferences”, Wyley VCH 2007. |
