Centrale Lille is proud to announce the appointment of Frédérique Pourpoint, a teacher-researcher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL) / Centrale Lille, as a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) for the Fundamental Chair.
Frédérique Pourpoint has a well-established scientific profile in the field of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of solids. She did her Master’s studies (materials chemistry) at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, where she then completed her thesis work under the supervision of Christian Bonhomme and Christel Gervais. Her study focused on calcium phosphates, combining experimental approaches using NMR and ab initio calculations. After completing her thesis in 2009, she spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at Stony Brook University, NY (USA), and at Cambridge University under the supervision of Clare Grey, working on NMR characterisation of energy materials.
She joined the Lille site in 2011, first as an ATER, then as a Maîtresse de Conférences at the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (2012, now Centrale Lille), conducting her research within the Solid State Chemistry Axis of the Catalysis and Solid State Chemistry Unit, UCCS. She was introduced to the methodological development of NMR. She defended her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in February 2019.
Today, Frédérique is working on an advanced understanding of porous materials of the MOF (Metal-Organic Frameworks) type using solid-state NMR. Her main objective is to characterise the interaction between gases (CO2, H2, H2O) and materials at the atomic scale.
Congratulations to Frédérique on her nomination!