Frederic Lamaty, Ph.D.

Director of Research, Head of Green Chemistry Team at University of Montpellier

Speaker

Frédéric Lamaty graduated as a chemical engineer from the Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (France) and with a PhD in chemistry in 1992 from Purdue University under the guidance of Prof. Ei-chi Negishi. After completing postdoctoral work with Professor Marc Julia at the ENS Paris, he joined the CNRS in Montpellier, France. He holds currently a position of Senior Scientist and heads the Green Chemistry and Enabling Technologies team at IBMM (Institute of Biomolecules Max Mousseron). His research focuses on the development of sustainable methods for the synthesis of bioactive molecules, pioneering the use of mechanochemistry in peptide synthesis.