Prof. Dr. Christophe Copéret
Prof. Dr. Christophe Copéret
Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Head of Dep. of Chemistry and Applied Biosc.
ETH Zürich
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Research area
Christophe Copéret’s research activities focus on the boundaries of molecular, materials and surface chemistry with the aim of improving our understanding of functional materials with applications in catalysis (sustainable chemistry and energy), molecular recognition, image editing and micro-electronics design.
Christophe Copéret has been Professor of Surface and Interface Chemistry at the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, since 2010.
He was born in Belleville, France in 1970.
Christophe Copéret completed his degree in chemistry and chemical technology at the University of Lyon in France in 1992.
He obtained a doctorate from the Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA in August 1996 before working as a postdoc for a year under professor K. B. Sharpless at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, USA. From 1998 to 2002, he was an assistant professor at the University of Lyon. In 2002, he became a professor at the University of Lyon, where he worked for another eight years. From 2008 to 2010, he was Research Director of the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique).
Christophe Copéret was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Catalysis (2011-2015), and the Co-Editor in Chief of Helvetica Chimica Acta, the journal of the Swiss Chemical Society (2016-2021). Since 2022, he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, JACS.
CV PDFMembership
| Since | Membership |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Co-chair of the SNX Fondation Suisse-Norvégienne pour la Recherche avec Les Rayons X |
| 2023 | Head of the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich |
| 2022 | Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, JACS. |
| 2021 | Chair of the Chemistry Roadmap of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) |
| 2021 | Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Board of the Catalysis Hub (SwissCat+) |
| 2019 | Chairman of the board of ScopeM ETH Zurich |
| 2019 | Member of the Advisory Board Chemical Science, RSC |
| 2019 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of UniSysCat/EC², Technische Universität Berlin |
| 2018 | Member of the external advisory board of the Collaborative Search Centre CRC 1333 |
| 2018 | Member of the Innovation Council – InnoSuisse |
| 2018 | Member of the Scientific Board ot IFP Energies Nouvelles |
| 2017 | Member of the Board – EuChemS |
| 2017 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Advanced Research Center of Chemical Building Blocks Consortium ARC CBBC |
| 2016 | co-Editor in Chief of Helvetica Chimica Acta |
| 2016 | President of the ETH Research Commission - Section III |
| 2015 | President of the Platform Chemistry of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), and member from 2013 - 2021 |
| 2013 | Member of the advisory board of Catalysis Letters |
| 2013 | Member of the international advisory board of Topics in Catalysis |
| 2012 | Member of the Board – Swiss Chemical Society |
| 2012 | Member of the international advisory board of ChemCatChem |
| 2011 | Associate Editor of the Journal of Catalysis, Elsevier |
| 2011 | Member of the international advisory board of the International Symposium in Olefin Metathesis |
| 2010 | Member of the Advisory Board of Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis |
| 2010 | Member of the Advisory Board of Catalysis Science & Engineering, Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2008 | Member of the Advisory Board of Dalton Transaction, Royal Society of Chemistry, L |
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Closs Lecture (Student Selected Seminar Speaker), University of Chicago |
| 2022 | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2021 | Elected Member of Academia Europa |
| 2021 | PIFI Distinguished Scientist |
| 2020 | Hutchison Lectureship, Rochester University |
| 2019 | Air LiquideScientific Challenge Laureate |
| 2019 | Falk Plaut Lectureship – University of Columbia – USA |
| 2018 | Humboldt Research Award – Humboldt University – Germany |
| 2018 | JSPS Fellow – Japan |
| 2017 | Wheland Award – University of Chicago – USA |
| 2016 | Rössler Prize – Switzerland |
| 2015 | Meloche Lectureship – University of Wisconsin – USA |
| 2015 | P.H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Calalysis - North American Catalysis Society – USA |
| 2015 | Quebec University Lecture Tour |
| 2015 | Somorjai Miller Fellow – University of California, Berkeley – USA |
| 2014 | Yoshida Lectureship – University of Kyoto – Japan |
| 2013 | Lemieux Lectureship – University of Ottawa – Canada |
| 2012 | Glenn T. Seaborg Memorial Lecturer – University of California, Berkeley – USA |
| 2011 | UOP - Honeywell Invitational Lecturer – USA |
| 2008 | Thieme Journal Award, Georg-Thieme-Verlag, Deutschland |
| 2005 | 2005 Best Paper Award for a Young Investigator attributed by the Editorial Board of J. Organometal. Chemistry |
| 2001 | Médaille de bronze CNRS (CNRS Young investigator award) |
| 1996 | Post-doctoral fellowship Société de Secours des Amis des Sciences , Paris, France |
| 1994 | HC Brown award for excellence in organic chemistry research , Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA |
| 1993 | Negishi's group research accomplishments award |
| 1993 | Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship – West Lafayette, Indiana, USA |
Additional information
Professor Copéret is member of the scientific board of the Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) in Rueil-Malmaison, France, and consultant to XiMo in Budapest, Hungary