Adrien Smith

Post-doctoral researcher, Photo-/Electrocatalysis

Cachan, Île-de-France, France

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Experience

  • Chercheur postdoctoral at Chimie ParisTech - PSL
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    Developing new photocatalytic methods for corticosteroid synthesis in the team of Jean-François Soulé (CSB2D, iCHLeS)

  • PHD Candidate at Université Paris-Saclay
    Sep 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    PhD undertaken in ICMMO (Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay), in the Inorganic Chemistry team, under the supervision of Ally Aukauloo and Zakaria Halime. Thesis subject : Activation and reduction of CO2 by metallo-porphyrin based molecular complexes.

  • Research Internship at ESPCI Paris - PSL
    May 2021 - Jul 2021 · 3 mos

    Research Internship in the C3M laboratory (Chimie Moléculaire, Macromoléculaire, Matériaux), CDM team (Chimie et Design Macromoléculaire), supervised by Larissa Hammer and Renaud Nicolaÿ. Internship subject : Synthesis and characterization of dynamic covalent polymer networks.

  • Research Internship at DNA Script
    Feb 2020 - Jul 2020 · 6 mos

    Master 2 internship project supervised by Supaporn Niyomchon, in the Nucleotide Synthesis R&D team at DNA Script. Internship project : Synthesis of modified nucleotides.

  • Research Internship at CSIRO
    Apr 2019 - Jul 2019 · 4 mos

    Master 1 internship project at the Flexible Electronics Laboratory of CSIRO - Manufacturing (Clayton, Melbourne, Australia), under the supervision of Mei Gao. Internship subject : Scaling-up, optimization and characterization of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells.