Principal Investigators

Frédéric CASTET

Project coordinator, Scientific leader for numerical simulations

is Professor at the University of Bordeaux since 2014 and member of the theoretical chemistry group of the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires. His research activities focus on the theoretical modelling of the structural, electronic, and optical properties of organic conjugated compounds and materials with promising characteristics for exploitation in electronic, optoelectronic and photonic devices. Specifically, he has a recognized expertise in quantum chemical simulations of NLO properties of organic (supra)molecular systems. His recent developments aimed at rationalizing the impact of dynamical geometry fluctuations and intermolecular interactions on the NLO responses of photo-responsive functionalized surfaces or biomembranes by means of computational approaches encompassing classical molecular dynamics simulations and DFT calculations.

Émilie GENIN

Scientific leader for organic synthesis, Data Manager

is Assistant Professor since 2007 and member of the Molecular Chemistry and Materials group of the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires. She has a strong expertise in multistep organic synthesis, including photochromic compounds.

Luc VELLUTINI

Scientific leader for surface engineering

is Assistant Professor at the University of Bordeaux and leader of the Molecular Chemistry and Materials group of the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires. His research activity in the last 10 years has focused on nanoscience and surface chemistry in the context of self-assembling, including the covalent immobilization of biological structures. Part of his work was devoted to the design of new organosilanes to afford functionalized SAMs, in order to covalently immobilize biomolecules (antibodies, protein, oligonucleotides, bacteria …) onto solid substrates (glass and silicon and polymer).

Vincent RODRIGUEZ

Scientific leader for SHG development and characterizations

Vincent Rodriguez is professor in the chemistry department at the University of Bordeaux and member of the Molecular Spectroscopy Group of the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires. Since 2016, he is deputy director of the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires.
Over the years, he has contributed in the field of vibrational spectroscopies and nonlinear optics techniques like Second Harmonic Generation, hyper-Raleigh Scattering, hyper-Raman Scattering, third harmonic scattering, multimodal methodologies and techniques, etc... His current areas of interest concern novel photonic materials for nonlinear optics applications, molecular switches, molecular and supramolecular chirality. He has recently evidenced hyper-Rayleigh optical activity in functional aromatic oligomeric helices.

Technical Staff

Frédéric ADAMIETZ

Technical support for SHG development and characterizations

Philippe AUREL

Technical support for numerical simulations and data storage

Doctoral students

Simon DUBUIS

PhD Student March 2021 - Present

Studies of molecular monolayers by linear and non-linear optical spectroscopies

Angela DELLAI

PhD Student November 2021 - Present

Simulation of the nonlinear optical properties of photoresponsive self-assembled monolayers

Chloé COURDURIÉ

PhD Student October 2021 - Present

Organic synthesis and surface chemistry

Master's students

Josianne OWONA

M2 Student March - July 2021

Simulation of nonlinear optical properties of Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts

Komlanvi Sèvi KAKA

M2 Student February - May 2021

Simulation of nonlinear optical properties of azobenzene

Louis AMBROISE

M1 Student January - February 2021

Synthesis of graftable photosensitive compounds on azide-terminated self-assembled monolayers

Camille ROCQ

M1 Student January - February 2021

Organic synthesis of photocommutable azobenzenes with a terminal alkyne

Marilù Grace MARALDI

M2 Student January 2022 - On going

Simulation of nonlinear optical properties of spiropyran-merocyanine photoswitches

Apostolos KALAFATIS

M1 Intern January - March 2022

Experimental study of linear and nonlinear optical properties and kinetic analysis of photoswitchable molecules in solution

Undegraduate students

Vincent ALLARD

L3 Intern May - June 2021

Experimental study of chromophores by their second harmonic response