Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Carine Michel

CNRS Researcher

Carine Michel received her PhD in 2007 in Theoretical Chemistry at the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, under the supervision of Pr. A. Milet. She focused mainly on modelling the chemical reactivity of various homogeneous systems. Then, she spent one year as a post-doctoral fellow under the supervision of Pr. E.J. Baerends at the VU University, Amsterdam in the field of C-H oxidation.

In 2009, she was appointed at the Laboratoire de Chimie as a CNRS researcher to focus on the catalytic valorisation of biomass into chemicals. She extended her research themes to the study of reactive solid/liquid interfaces with a focus on the life cycle of catalysts, from preparation to deactivation. She is the French PI of the IRP ELINE, an international collaborative network on electrified interfaces with UCLA. She has a strong industrial network, working with Solvay,  TotalEnergies and IFPEN.

She received the Bronze medal of the CNRS (2015), the Young Research Prize of the Division de Chimie Physique of the SCF and SFP (2020) and the scientific Prize of the Groupe Paris-Lyon (2020).

She is currently the director of the Laboratoire de Chimie and she is currently advising one PhD student and two post-docs.