Marie-paule Pileni PhD

Pr. M.P Pileni is a Distinguished Professor at University P&M Curie and Senior Researcher in the Nuclear and Environmental Center, France. She is a member (1999- at present) and chair (2004-2010) of Institut Universitaire de France, IUF, which favors the development of high-quality research and interdisciplinary projects among French universities. She has published more than 450 articles with 20,241citations, 50 average citations per item, and a factor of 73. Prof. Pileni's research has been highly interdisciplinary over her entire scientific career, starting from biophysics to solar energy and developing nanoreactors to reach nanostructures.

Her recent major breakthroughs are related to the chemical and physical properties of nanocrystals differing by their crystalline structures and/or self-assembled in 3D superlattices. Over her career, she received significant awards and prizes: the Langmuir award of the American Chemical Society, the lecture award of the Japanese Chemical Society, the research award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, the Descartes-Huygens prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts, Science and Emila Valori prize from the French Acacareer Sciences, Catalán-Sabatier Lectureship award from the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain, Life Achievement award from Journal Colloid Interface Science, Pierre Sue prize from the French Chemical Society and Chalmers Lecture award.