Christian Serre
Division: Materials Science Division
Institute: Institut des Matériaux Poreux de Paris
Country: France
City: Paris
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Biography
Christian Serre is a CNRS research director. He obtained his PhD in materials’ chemistry in 1999 under the supervision of prof. Gérard Férey in Versailles, France. After a post-doc in USA at Rhodia, he started his CNRS career in 2001 at the Lavoisier Institute in Versailles where he was one of the main discover of the well-known MIL class of MOF materials. He created in 2016 at Ecole Normale Supérieure, ESPCI Paris within the PSL University, a new Institute dedicated to porous solids and related composites for health, the environment and energy. To date (August 2025), he has published more than 450 articles and holds 43 patent families (H-factor = 140, > 90,000 citations). He is one of the co-founders of SquairTech, a start-up dedicated to indoor air quality. He has received many awards and is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.