Eric Gaigneaux

CURRENT POSITIONS

2009 – 2012:   Vice-president of the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanotechnologies in charge of the technological affairs and platforms (UCL)

2009 – 2009:   Full Time Professor (Professeur) at UCL

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2006 – 2010:   Vice-president of the Department for Applied and Biological Chemistry (UCL)

2003 – 2010:   Head, laboratory of Catalysis and Divided Materials Chemistry (UCL)

2004 – 2009:   Full Time Associate Professor (Chargé de cours) at UCL

2001 – 2004:   Associate Professor (Chargé de cours) (temporary, part-time) at UCL

2000 – 2004:   Research Associate (Chercheur qualifié) of the FNRS at UCL

1998 – 2000 :  Post-doctoral researcher of the FNRS (Chargé de recherches) at UCL (simultaneously to a post-doctoral stay in Japan, see "Experience abroad")

1994 – 1998 :  PhD student of the FNRS (Aspirant) at UCL

1993 – 1994 : PhD student of the UCL (Aspirant FDS)

EXPERIENCE ABROAD

1998 – 1999:   Post-doctoral stay at the University of Tokyo (Japan) – Department of Chemistry

1998:               Post-doctoral stay at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck- Gesellschaft

(Berlin, Germany)

1995:               Research stay at the University of Notre Dame (South-Bend, USA)

1993:               Research stay at ICI Katalco Headquarters (Billingham, United Kingdom)

AWARDS (details on Research subventions and fundings on demand)

2003:               ExxonMobil Chemical European Science & Engineering Award.

2003:               “Agathon De Potter Award in Chemistry (2000-2002)" of the Classes des Sciences of the Académie royale de Belgique

TEACHING (details on Courses on demand)

Teaching at the Faculty of Biology, Agronomy and Environment Engineering, and at the Faculty of Sciences:

Physical Chemistry, Characterization of the Surface of Materials, Chemistry of Solids, Principles of Heterogeneous Catalysis

Member of the Doctoral School in the domain of Bioengineering (Académie Louvain)

(Co-)Supervisor of : (details on students names and subjects on demand)

- doctoral theses : 5 completed 10 ongoing

- engineer diploma works : 22 completed 5 ongoing

- laboratory technician diploma works : 19 completed

OTHER CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS AND INVOLVEMENTS

2008 – 2011 : Scientific Committee of the European Multifunctional Materials Institute

2008 – 2011 : Scientific Committee of the EcoTechnoPole-Wallonie (Liège, Belgium)

2007 – 2010 : Management Committee of the European COST Action D41

2006 – 2010 : Management Committee of the European COST Action D36

2005 – 2009 : Vice-chairman of "6^th World Congress on Oxidation Catalysis”

2003 – 2005 : Administration Council of the Certech (Seneffe, Belgium)

2004 – 2008 : Member of the editorial board of Applied Catalysis A

2002 – 2012 : Organizing committee of "Operando Spectroscopy” symposia series

2001 – 2005 : Co-secretary of the Groupes de Contact en Catalyse of the FNRS

2000 – 2005 : Executive chairman of "International Symposium on Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts" symposia series (Louvain-la-Neuve)

2003:               Environment Committee of the Catholic University of Louvain

2001 - 2003    Organizing committee of the “PhD students days” (Louvain-la-Neuve)

2001 – 2004:1 Chemistry Committee of the Société Royale Belge des Ingénieurs et des Industriels (SRBII)

1996 – 2001:   Founding-member of the “Young Chemists” division of the Société Royale de Chimie