ラッペン ゲナエル

Full Professor at University of Toulouse (France) and Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan).

After my studies in chemistry at Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, I prepared a Ph.D. supervised by Dr Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker working on the synthesis and the resolution of double helices and knots (1995-1998). After spending one year as a Lavoisier postdoctoral fellow working on Fullerenes with Prof. François Diederich at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) as a Lavoisier postdoctoral fellow. In 1999, I joined the NanoSciences Group at CEMES (CNRS) led by Prof. Jean-Pierre Launay and Dr Christian Joachim as an Assistant Professor. In 2011, I have been promoted Full Professor. In 2018, I obtained a crossed-position in NAIST (Japan) where I now lead the international collaborative laboratory between NAIST and Paul Sabatier University.

I am working on the design and synthesis of molecular machines for their study and manipulation at the single molecular scale to grants access to the mechanical properties at the molecular level. These molecules are designed to operate as single molecules on surfaces under the control of the STM tip. My skills range from multistep organic synthesis, fullerene functionalization and coordination chemistry to the complete set of classical characterization methods of molecular chemistry.

Keywords : Polyaromatics - Nanovehicles - Double decker complexes - tripodal ligands - Molecular rotors and motors - Molecular gears - Technomimetic molecules