Prof. Dr. Christophe Copéret

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Prof. Dr. Christophe Copéret
Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Head of Dep. of Chemistry and Applied Biosc.
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Lab. für Anorganische Chemie
Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10
8093 Zürich
Switzerland

Vita

Prof. Christophe Copéret (CCH) was trained in chemistry and chemical engineering in CPE Lyon (France) and then undertook a PhD in chemistry at Purdue University (USA), where he studied the development of highly efficient synthesis of complex molecules via Pd-catalyzed carbonylation reactions in the group of external page Prof. E. Negishi (1991-1996). After a postdoctoral stay at the Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, USA) in the group of external page Prof. K.B. Sharpless (1996-1997), where he developed oxidation reactions, CCH was offered in 1998 a permanent research position in CNRS in C2P2 (at the time LCOMS, directed by Dr. Jean-Marie Basset), a laboratory devoted to catalysis, chemistry of surfaces and polymers, and was promoted CNRS Research Director in 2008. Since Nov, 1st 2010, CCH is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zürich. His scientific interest lies at the frontiers of molecular, material and surface chemistry, with the aims to design functional materials with applications in catalysis (sustainable chemistry and energy), molecular recognition, imaging and microelectronics. CCH is a member of the external page NCCR Catalysis and co-Chair of SwissCat+, a data-driven High-throughput Experimental Infrastructure of the ETH Domain.

CCH is Associate Editor of the external page Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Besides scientific activities, CCH enjoys literature, history, cooking and wine tasting, probably a reminiscence of his childhood spent in the vineyards in external page Fleurie, one of the famous crû of Beaujolais (La reine) just 50 km North of Lyon.

Membership in Boards

 
 
Member of the International Board of the Resnick Sustainability Center for Catalysis 
Co-chair of the SNX Fondation Suisse-Norvégienne pour la Recherche avec Les Rayons X 
Member of external page NCCR Catalysis 
Chairman of the ETH Zurich Catalysis Hub 
Member of the Board of the Swiss Chemical Society. 
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cluster of Excellence "Unifying Systems in Catalysis" UniSysCat, Technische Universität Berlin 
Chairman of the Board of ScopeM, ETH Zurich 
Member of the Innovative Council of InnoSuisse. 
Member of the Platform Chemistry of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNat). 
Member of the Executive Board of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences EuCheMS. 
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Advanced Research Center of Chemical Building Blocks Consortium ARC CBBC. 
Member of the Scientific Board of IFP Energies Nouvelles. 
Member of the External Advisory Board of the Collaborative Research Center CRC 1333 – Molecular heterogeneous catalysis in confined geometries. 
Member of the International Board of the International Symposium on Olefin Metathesis and Related Chemistry. 
Member of the advisory boards of several journals (external page Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, external page Catalysis Letters, external page Catalysis Science and Technology, external page ChemCatChem, external page Chemical Science (2019-2023),external page Chem & Bio Engineeringexternal page Dalton Transactions (2009-2011) and external page Topics in Catalysis). 

Honors and Awards

2023Closs Lecture (Student Selected Seminar Speaker), University of Chicago 
2022Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2022 

VA CECC distinguished lectureship, University of Virginia

2021PIFI Distinguished Scientist 2021
2021Elected member of Academia Europaea
2020Hutchison Lectureship, Univ. Rochester
2019Falk Plaut Lectureship, Columbia University
2019AirLiquideScientificChallenge Laureate
2018Humboldt Research Award.
2018Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow.
2017George Willard Wheland Memorial Lecture, University of Chicago.
2016Max Rössler Prize.
2015Paul H. Emmett Award.
2015Meloche Lectureship - University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2014International Organic Chemistry Foundation - Yoshida - Lectureship Award - University of Kyoto.
2013Lemieux Lectureship, University of Ottawa.
2012Glenn T. Seaborg Memorial Lecturer - UC Berkeley.
2011UOP-Honeywell Invitational Lecturer.
2008Thieme Journal Award.
2005Best Paper Award for a Young Investigator" attributed by the Editorial Board of J. Organometal. Chem.
2001Médaille de bronze CNRS (CNRS Young investigator award).
1996-1997Post-doctoral fellowship « Société de Secours des Amis des Sciences.
1994-1995
HC Brown award for excellence in organic chemistry research.
1993-1994Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship.
1993Negishi's group research accomplishments award.

Professional Experiences

2010-presentProfessor, Department of Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Zürich (Switzerland).
2008 - 2010CNRS Research Director, C2P2 (Director: B. Charleux), ESCPE Lyon, Villeurbanne (France).
2002 - 2008Research Associate, Laboratoire de Chimie Organométallique de Surface (Director: J.-M. Basset), ESCPE Lyon, Villeurbanne (France).
1998 - 2002Research Assistant, Laboratoire de Chimie Organométallique de Surface (Director: J.-M. Basset), ESCPE Lyon, Villeurbanne (France).
1996-1997Post-doctoral research fellow, Prof. K. B. Sharpless, Scripps Research Institute », La Jolla (USA).
1991-1996PhD, Prof. E. Negishi, Purdue University, West-Lafayette (USA).