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University of Lille

CURRENT POSITION: Full professor in chemistry at the University of Lille, France
• Full professor in chemistry at the University of Lille, France
• Group Leader, Unity of Catalysis and Solid State Chemistry

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Catalysis for Functional and Sustainable Polymers, including
• Fundamentals and applications of Coordinative Chain Transfer Polymerization (CCTP)
and chain shuttling polymerization
• Polymer carbohydrate coupling
• Biobased polymers: design of new materials, environmental impact of their microplastics
• Chemical recycling of plastics

SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT & BIBLIOMETRY
• 90 publications in peer-reviewed international journals
• 4 publications in popular science journals
• 8 book chapters, 1 book
• 3 patents
• h-index 31 (google scholar)
• > 20 plenary / invited lectures at international conferences
• > 20 invited seminars in universities and companies

TEACHING
• Chemical Engineering - Technological Institute of the University of Lille
• Biobased Polymers - Technological Institute of the University of Lille and Biorefinery
Master (one of the International Masters of the University of Lille)

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
• R. Mundil, C. Bravo, N. Merle, P. Zinck, Coordinative Chain Transfer and Chain Shuttling
Polymerization, Chemical Reviews, 2024, 124, 210–244
• C. Bravo, N. Merle, M. Sauthier, M. Bria, J.D. Winter, P. Zinck, Coordinative Chain
Transfer Polymerization of Butadiene Using Nickel(II) Allyl Systems: A Straightforward
Route to Branched Polybutadiene, Macromolecules, 2023, 56, 8106–8115
• J. Meimoun, C. Sutapin, G. Stoclet, A. Favrelle-Huret, P. Roussel, M. Bria, S.
Chirachanchai, F. Bonnet, P. Zinck, Lactide Lactone Chain Shuttling Copolymerization
Mediated by an Aminobisphenolate Supported Aluminum Complex and Al(OiPr)3: Access
to New Polylactide Based Block Copolymer, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 50, 21206–
21210
• Y. Phuphuak, F. Bonnet, G. Stoclet, M. Bria, P. Zinck, Isoprene chain shuttling
polymerisation between cis and trans regulating catalysts: straightforward access to a new
material, Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 5330-5332
Valente, G. Stoclet, F. Bonnet, A. Mortreux, M. Visseaux, P. Zinck
Isoprene–styrene chain shuttling copolymerization mediated by a lanthanide half-sandwich
complex and a lanthanidocene: straightforward access to a new type of thermoplastic
elastomers, Angew. Chem., 2014, 53, 4638-4641