Fields of Scholarship Organometallic Chemistry Nanoparticles Magnetic nanostructures Catalysis Dihydrogen complexes Sensors Quantum dots Honours and Awards 1982 Coordination Chemistry Award French Chemical Society 1997 Silver Medal (Médaille d'Argent) CNRS 1998 1er Prize Innovation Midi-Pyrénées 1999 Miguel Catalan / Paul Sabatier Award Real Sociedad Espanola de Quimica 2002 Seaborg Lecturer, University of California Berkeley 29/11/2005 Elected French Academy of Sciences 2006 Humboldt-Gay-Lussac Award 2006 EaStCHEM visiting Professor, University of Saint-Andrews/University of Edimburgh 2008 Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize and Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry 2010 ERC “co-investigator” (Piet van Leeuwen, Tarragonna, PI) 2010 "Grand Prix Pierre Süe" French Chemical Society (SCF)