JEAN FRANCOIS POISSON

Jean-François Poisson is Professor at Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble (France), and is currently head of the "Synthèse et Réactivité en Chimie Organique" group. 
He studied chemistry at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP) and obtained a Master degree from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) under the supervision of Prof. Ilan Marek in 1995. He then spent 18 months in Cambridge (UK) in the group of Prof.Steven V. Ley as a visiting student. In 2000, he obtained a PhD from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) under the supervision of Prof Jean Normant. After a post-doctoral stay in the group of Prof. Andrea Vasella (ETH Zurich), he joined the Département de Chimie Moléculaire at Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble in 2001 as a CNRS researcher, and obtained his "habilitation à diriger les recherches" in 2007. He was appointed full professor at Université Joseph Fourier in september 2013.