Biography

Alain TRESSAUD is CNRS Research Director (Emeritus) at ICMCB, Bordeaux, France. He is presently Vice-President of the European Academy of Sciences, after being the President (2017-18). He is member of several other European Academy of Sciences. His scientific interest covers various fields, e.g. synthesis, physical chemical characterizations, applications in fluorine chemistry, solid state chemistry & materials sciences.

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Research Interest

His works also deal with surface modification of materials and intercalation chemistry. His scientific production includes more than 370 papers in international journals, 25 chapter contributions in books and 12 internationalized patents. In addition, he edited 12 books including the Editor-in-Chief responsibility of the book series “Advances in Fluorine Science” (2006-2008), and “Progress in Fluorine Science”,(2016-2019) at Elsevier. He founded and chaired until 2008 the French Network on Fluorine Chemistry, sponsored by CNRS. He received several International awards: 2008-Nuclear Energy Agency Award of French Academy of Sciences, 2011- ACS Fluorine Award, International Henri Moissan Prize (2012), 2019-Fray International Sustainability Award. Recently a Symposium was held in his honor: - “Tressaud International Symposium on Solid State Chemistry for Applications and Sustainable Development”, at Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit, Cyprus, (Oct. 2019).