Thomas Zemb
Curriculum Vitae: Prof. Dr. Thomas N Zemb
Born 1953 in Hamburg (Germany, French national), married with 3 children, I had a French-German initial education. After "baccalaureat" obtained in 1969, I studied physics in Paris, with biophysics-biochemistry options. I prepared a practical "Diplomarbeit" in nuclear physics at ETH Zurich, defended in September 1972.
phD Biophyics INstitu Curie 1978, and D. SC. In Solid state physics Orsay 1985
Positions since 1976:
1976: Agrégation de physique, then teaching in high schools and at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint Cloud.
Since 1979: Staff scientist at "Service de Chimie moléculaire” (CEA-Saclay)".
1985: staff scientist at Saclay (Dpet Phys Chem) and ILL Grenoble then visiting fellow at Australian National Univ. (Pr. B. Ninham and Pr. J. W. White 1985-1987; 1989-1990).
Since 1992: full Professor at INSTN (Institut des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires).
Visiting professor at MPIKG Potsdam and University Regensburg, own research themes: new solvent formulation and excitation of ions at interfaces (via Gay-Lussac one semester fellowships)
Responsibilities within fundamental research Division of CEA:
2013- : Principal Investigaor ot of ERC project REE_CYCLE : Recycling rare earths with low harmful emissions
2007-2014: Director of the Institute for separation chemistry in Marcoule
1992-2007: in charge of the group "Chimie de la Matière Ultra-divisée”, Deputy-head and then Head of Laboratoire Claude Fréjacques, an associated laboratory with fifty staff CEA-CNRS, UMR 331.
1987-1999: in charge of Small Angle X-ray Scattering laboratory that I created within CEA/DPC/SCM.
Functions:
1994-1999, Responsible of research program: “Architecture moléculaire” at CEA.
1993-1997, Coordinator of the French Interdisciplinary Colloid group: “Systèmes colloïdaux mixtes” CEA/CNRS, funding together 44 teams working in the field of colloids (physics, chemistry and biology).
2000-2006, Co-director of the GDR French-German CNRS/Max Planck “Complex fluids in two and one half dimensions”, funding together 7 French and 7 German research teams (co-dir: Pr Dr H. Moehwald).
1998-2001, CEA-Representative at “Science advisory committee” at ESRF, Grenoble.
1995-2010, Nominated member of the ”Comité national de la recherche scientifique“, in Chemistry (3 terms)
2008-presnt : co-responsible for France of the CNRS/MPG common lab (LIA) ° RECYCLING”
2012-2014 : Founding Director of the Labex “Chemisyst” of Montpellier ( 2012-2015)
2014- present Mercator professor at TU Berlin
Awards:
(i) Prize of best thesis awarded as “Prix de la division de Chimie Physique”, Société Française de Chimie in 1985 ; (ii) National prize in Physical Chemistry, given yearly by the French Academy of Sciences: "Prix Paul Pascal", awarded in 2003: (iii) Price of the European colloid and interface society (process by anonymous nomination – not by candidature) and by vote: “for the discovery of self-assembled hollow icosahedra which mimic viruses” (made the cover page in Nature + publications in Science ad PNAS).
Laureate of the 2009 Humboldt-Gay-Lussac award in Chemistry: linked to my collaboration in sonochemistry and separation chemistry with MPI-Potsdam.
2013 Thomas Graham medal in ion separation chemistry awarded by the DKG
Supervisors: Barry Ninham 1985-1987 and Paul Rigny 1979-1992
Born 1953 in Hamburg (Germany, French national), married with 3 children, I had a French-German initial education. After "baccalaureat" obtained in 1969, I studied physics in Paris, with biophysics-biochemistry options. I prepared a practical "Diplomarbeit" in nuclear physics at ETH Zurich, defended in September 1972.
phD Biophyics INstitu Curie 1978, and D. SC. In Solid state physics Orsay 1985
Positions since 1976:
1976: Agrégation de physique, then teaching in high schools and at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint Cloud.
Since 1979: Staff scientist at "Service de Chimie moléculaire” (CEA-Saclay)".
1985: staff scientist at Saclay (Dpet Phys Chem) and ILL Grenoble then visiting fellow at Australian National Univ. (Pr. B. Ninham and Pr. J. W. White 1985-1987; 1989-1990).
Since 1992: full Professor at INSTN (Institut des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires).
Visiting professor at MPIKG Potsdam and University Regensburg, own research themes: new solvent formulation and excitation of ions at interfaces (via Gay-Lussac one semester fellowships)
Responsibilities within fundamental research Division of CEA:
2013- : Principal Investigaor ot of ERC project REE_CYCLE : Recycling rare earths with low harmful emissions
2007-2014: Director of the Institute for separation chemistry in Marcoule
1992-2007: in charge of the group "Chimie de la Matière Ultra-divisée”, Deputy-head and then Head of Laboratoire Claude Fréjacques, an associated laboratory with fifty staff CEA-CNRS, UMR 331.
1987-1999: in charge of Small Angle X-ray Scattering laboratory that I created within CEA/DPC/SCM.
Functions:
1994-1999, Responsible of research program: “Architecture moléculaire” at CEA.
1993-1997, Coordinator of the French Interdisciplinary Colloid group: “Systèmes colloïdaux mixtes” CEA/CNRS, funding together 44 teams working in the field of colloids (physics, chemistry and biology).
2000-2006, Co-director of the GDR French-German CNRS/Max Planck “Complex fluids in two and one half dimensions”, funding together 7 French and 7 German research teams (co-dir: Pr Dr H. Moehwald).
1998-2001, CEA-Representative at “Science advisory committee” at ESRF, Grenoble.
1995-2010, Nominated member of the ”Comité national de la recherche scientifique“, in Chemistry (3 terms)
2008-presnt : co-responsible for France of the CNRS/MPG common lab (LIA) ° RECYCLING”
2012-2014 : Founding Director of the Labex “Chemisyst” of Montpellier ( 2012-2015)
2014- present Mercator professor at TU Berlin
Awards:
(i) Prize of best thesis awarded as “Prix de la division de Chimie Physique”, Société Française de Chimie in 1985 ; (ii) National prize in Physical Chemistry, given yearly by the French Academy of Sciences: "Prix Paul Pascal", awarded in 2003: (iii) Price of the European colloid and interface society (process by anonymous nomination – not by candidature) and by vote: “for the discovery of self-assembled hollow icosahedra which mimic viruses” (made the cover page in Nature + publications in Science ad PNAS).
Laureate of the 2009 Humboldt-Gay-Lussac award in Chemistry: linked to my collaboration in sonochemistry and separation chemistry with MPI-Potsdam.
2013 Thomas Graham medal in ion separation chemistry awarded by the DKG
Supervisors: Barry Ninham 1985-1987 and Paul Rigny 1979-1992
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