Denis Frath

After a MSc degree at INSA Rouen, I moved to University of Strasbourg for a PhD supported by a MENRT fellowship. My doctoral work was focused on the light driven production of hydrogen and on the synthesis of novel fluorescent dyes. Then I worked on STM analyses of photoresponsive self-assembled monolayers as a JSPS fellow at Kyoto University, on redox-active molecular layers for electronic devices at Paris Diderot University and binuclear complexes for catalytic reactions at CNRS in Lyon. My research interests at the Chemistry Laboratory of ENS Lyon are directed towards pi-conjugated molecules with optical and electrochemical properties, their supramolecular self-assembly and functional materials with switchable properties (gels, liquid crystals, surfaces...).