Guy Bertrand

Guy Bertrand received his Ph.D. from University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse). After serving as CNRS group leader at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS, he was Director of the Laboratoire d'Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée at University Paul Sabatier from 1998 to 2005. From 2001 to 2012, he served as the Director of the UCR/CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory at the University of California Riverside, which he created. Since July 2012, he is Distinguished Professor and Director of the UCSD/CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego. Prof. Bertrand’s research focuses on taming reactive molecules such as carbenes, nitrenes, and diradicals and transforming these compounds into useful tools for synthetic chemists. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology (2000), the Academia Europaea (2002), the French Academy of Sciences (2004), and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2023). Among other awards, he has received the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry (2014), the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award of the RSC (2016) and le Grand Prix de la Maison de la Chimie (2020).