Louis Fensterbank

Louis Fensterbank is a French scientist specialized in molecular chemistry. Professor at Sorbonne University and Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France, he has been the director of the Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire since 2017.

Fensterbank was a visiting scientist at the Australian National University in 2009 and invited professor at the Osaka Prefecture University in 2017 and at Okayama University in 2019.

In 2008, Louis Fensterbank was nominated junior member of Institut Universitaire de France, of which he became a senior member in 2021. He was awarded the Clavel Lespiau Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2014, the Prize of the Division de Chimie Organique of the Société chimique de France in 2016, and the Silver Medal of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 2017. He has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2017.

In 1990, Fensterbank graduated as chemical engineer from Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon, now École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon. He obtained his PhD in 1993 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook under the guidance of Scott Sieburth. Following a lecturer position at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), he was appointed in 1995 by the French National Centre for Scientific Research as a chargé de recherche with Max Malacria. In 2004, he became professor at UPMC, now Sorbonne Université.