Prof. André-Jean Attias

André-Jean Attias is a Full Professor of Chemistry of Materials at Sorbonne Université (Paris, France). He received his engineer degree from ‘Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie de Paris’ (ESPCI), Paris, France in 1982 and joined the French Space Research Agency (ONERA) in 1983 as an engineer and became head of the polymer chemistry laboratory in 1990. In parallel, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Macromolecular Science from Pierre & Marie Curie University in 1988.
In 2002 he moved to Université Pierre et Marie Curie to join the Chemistry Department as full professor and he founded a research group on organic optoelectronics.
In 2017, he was appointed the founding director for the Building Blocks for Future Electronics Laboratory, an international joint research laboratory between the French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS, Sorbonne Uni.(France), and Yonsei Uni.(Korea).
His current research activity takes advantage of the Matter’s ability to organize itself spontaneously at the nanoscale. He uses surface-confined supramolecular self-assembly to generate nanostructures and function of patterned surfaces for applications in the areas of organic nano-photonics and-electronics. On the other hand, he recently developed a new generation of metal-free chromophores for long-lived organic room temperature phosphorescence from molecular crystals.
He is author or co-author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed high impact factor journals (e.g. Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Optical Materials, Materials Horizons, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., Chemistry of Materials).
He received the IUPAC Distinguished Award 2011 for Novel Materials and their Synthesis.