Principal Investigator at CRMN Lyon
Anne Lesage
CNRS senior scientist
High-Field NMR Center of Lyon (crmn-lyon.fr)
UMR 5082, CNRS / ENS-Lyon / UCB-Lyon 1
5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France.
e-mail: anne.lesage@ens-lyon.fr
ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1958-2840
Education
1992: Degree of Engineer, Ecole Centrale de Paris, Paris.
1992: M. Sc. in Biophysics, University of Paris VI, Paris.
1995: Ph. D. in Biophysics, under the supervision of Prof. M. van der Rest and Dr. F. Penin, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Lyon.
2003: Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, University of Lyon.
Awards and honours
2010. Cristal medal of the CNRS
2010. Medal of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
2017. Elected ISMAR Fellow
2018. Prix Jaffé and Berthelot medal of the French Academy of Sciences
2023. Günther Laukien Prize, Experimental NMR Conference
2023. Grand Prix Pierre Süe, French Chemical Society
2023. Knight of the Order of Academic Palms
2024. Vaughan Lecture Award, Rocky Mountain Conference
Short biography
I am based at the High Field NMR Center in Lyon, France, a research unit affiliated with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon), where I lead a research group focused on hyperpolarized solid-state NMR. I received an Engineering Master’s degree from École Centrale Paris in 1992 and a PhD in 1995 for my work on protein structure determination by solution NMR. I joined the CNRS as a permanent researcher in 1994, initially in the Chemistry Department of ENS Lyon, and have since devoted more than 30 years to the development and application of advanced solid-state NMR methods. I have served as Operational Director of the high Field NMR Center (CRMN) since its opening in 2008. My current research focuses on high-field, DNP-enhanced NMR under magic-angle spinning for the investigation of surfaces, materials, and pharmaceuticals (see Research section).
Beyond my research activities, I contribute to the scientific community through several roles. I co-founded the European Alpine NMR Conference and have led the French National High-Field NMR Infrastructure for 12 years (2013-2024). I am also Deputy Director of a joint laboratory between the CRMN and IFPEN (Institut Français du Pétrole et des Énergies Nouvelles). I am coordinating PANACEA, a European infrastructure project bringing together 12 international partners to provide access to cutting-edge instrumentation and experiments in solid-state NMR (see News section). Since 2024, I have had the pleasure of serving as Chair of the EUROMAR (European Magnetic Resonance Meeting) Board of Trustees.