Géraldine Masson
CNRS Research Director (DR1) Director of the Labcom HitCat
Géraldine Masson is a CNRS Research Director at ICSN-CNRS/Paris-Saclay University and director of the Labcom HitCat, a joint lab between SEQENS and CNRS..
She received her Ph. D. in 2003 from the Joseph Fourier University, (France) under the supervision of Dr. Sandrine Py and Pr. Yannick Vallée. From 2003 to 2005, she was a Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow in Pr. Jan van Maarseveen and Pr. Henk Hiemstra team at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). At the end of 2005, she was appointed “Chargée de Recherche” by the CNRS at ICSN-CNRS/Paris-Saclay University. She was promoted to CNRS Research Director DR2 in 2014 and Research Director DR1 in 2020.
PROFILES
Author Profile in Angewandte Chemie 2018
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Author Profile in European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2019
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Phone: +33 1 69 82 31 11
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Email: geraldine.masson@cnrs.fr
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Address:
Room 322, Bât. 27
1 Av. de la Terrasse,
91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Organizational unit:
Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) CNRS
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2020: Junior Distinguished Member from the French Chemical Society
2019: J.-M. Lehn prize of the French Organic Chemistry Division
2017: NOVACAP Prize of the French Académie des Sciences Award
2016: Liebig Lectureship of the German Chemical Society
2016: Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship
2016: ISHC Lecture Award at the 27th European Colloquium on Heterocyclic Chemistry
2015: ChemComm Emerging Investigators Issue 2015
2013: CNRS bronze medal, from CNRS
2011: Diverchim Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from French Organic Chemistry Division
2011: ACS Young Investigators Symposium, ACS meeting, Denver, USA
EDUCATION
ADVISORY BOARDS
2019: "Guest editor" ChemPhotoChem (Wiley) for special issue in photoredox catalysis
2019 to present: European Journal of Organic Chemistry (Wiley)
2016 to present: Organic Letters (ACS)
2016 to present: Organic Biomolecular Chemistry (RCS)
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2010: Habilitation
University Paris XI of Orsay (France)
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2003-2005: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
with Prof. H. Hiemstra and Prof. J. van Maarseven
University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Financed by a grant from the Marie Curie Fellowship Program
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2000-2003: Ph. D.
with Dr. S. Py and Prof. Y. Vallée
Joseph Fourrier University of Grenoble (France)
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Financed by a grant from the French Ministry Higher Education and Research
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1999-2000: MSc
with Prof. P. Compain and Prof. O. Martin
University of Orléans, Paris V and Paris XI (France)
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1996-1999: BSc (Organic Chemistry)
University of Orléans (France)
2021 to present: ACS Organic & Inorganic Au (ACS)
Deputy Editor
2019 to present: The Journal of Organic Chemistry (ACS)
Associate Editor
2018 to present: Science (AAAS)
Board of Reviewing Editors
2015 to present: ISTE Open Science Journal (Organocatalysis)
Editor-in-Chief
2016 to 2019: Organic Biomolecular Chemistry (RSC)
Editorial board members
2022: Cannizzaro-Arnaudon Lectureship from the Italian Chemical Society