Prof. Dr. Christophe Copéret

Prof. Dr.  Christophe Copéret

Prof. Dr. Christophe Copéret

Head of Dep. of Chemistry and Applied Biosc.

ETH Zürich

Lab. für Anorganische Chemie

HCI H 229

Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

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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.

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Membership

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

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