Professor Marc Lemaire started his career as Technician at the Roussel UCLAF Research Centre (Romainville) and then at the Delallande Research Centre (Rueil-Malmaison). Thanks to the evening courses at the university (CNAM) he obtained his master’s degree in Organic Chemistry at CNAM Paris and then his Ph.D. degree at the Paris VI University (Dir J. P. Guetté). He spent 18 months as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Groningen, Netherland (Dir R. M. Kellogg). He obtained an assistant professor position at the CNAM in 1982. He was appointed as Professor at the University of Lyon in 1989, secondary class, then primary class, and finally exceptional class. During the last 20 years, he created a new laboratory at the Lyon 1 University (Catalysis and Organic Synthesis); he was successively Director of the Master of Catalysis and Physical Chemistry (8 years) and then Director of the Organic Synthesis Master (5 years). He was director of the UMR 5181 (fine organic chemistry) from 1998 to 2004. He was appointed at the National Committee of CNRS section 12 and then 16 and on the National Committee of Universities section 32 and a member of the board of the SFC (organic chemistry division) and of the CA of the SFC. He was one of the coordinators of the green chemistry network of the CNRS. He was a member of the scientific committee of the “Institute de chimie séparative” of Marcoule and of the scientific committee of the Society MINAKEM. He was appointed Senior Member of the “Institut Universitaire de France”. He also managed industrial research projects and is now codirector of the International Laboratory on Malagasy Biodiversity Valorization at Antananarivo Madagascar. He is the author of more than 350 scientific articles and 64 original patents. He has presented 145 national and international conferences, hfactor = 48 (2014).
Lemaire Research Group 