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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.