Nuclear Magnetic Resonance a Compass to Nanoworld

Students should have a background in basic chemistry, including: (i) the atoms, the elements and the periodic table; (ii) the structure of organic molecules (functional groups, stereochemistry); as well as in basic physics, including some knowledge about the spectroscopy (energy levels, photon, frequency) and the magnetism.

Olivier Lafon
Olivier Lafon is professor at the University of Lille. He specializes on the development of novel solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) methods for the characterization of inorganic and hybrid materials.

Cedric Lion
Cedric Lion is associate professor at the University of Lille since 2008, specializing in bioorganic chemistry and chemical biology. After receiving his M.Sc. at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées of Rouen (France) in 2001, he carried out his Ph.D. at the Cancer Research Laboratories (Pharmacy department, University of Nottingham, UK, 2001-2005), and then a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Biomolecular Sciences (University of Nottingham, UK, 2005-2007), followed by a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut de Recherche en Chimie Organique Fine (UMR CNRS 6014 – COBRA, Rouen, France, 2007-2008).

Robert Schneider
Robert Schneider studied biology and physics in Munich (Germany) and Cambridge (USA). During his Ph.D. thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (Germany), he applied solid-state NMR spectroscopy to membrane and fibrillar proteins.

Frédérique Pourpoint
Frédérique Pourpoint is an assistant professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille since 2012. She is working on the development of new methods in solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) adapted to nuclei exhibiting close Larmor frequencies including the pair of spins {27Al-13C}. She is using such technique for the local characterization of microporous materials including Metal-Organic Frameworks. Her research interests are also focused on the Dynamic Nuclear Polarization method which allows enhancing the NMR signal.

Emmanuel Maës
Emmanuel Maes is a research engineer of CNRS institute and he works in UGSF (“Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle”, i.e. Laboratory of Structural and Functional Glycobiology) located on the University Lille1 campus. He is a glycobiologist using NMR as a main tool to resolve the primary structure of large kinds of glycans.

Julien Trebosc
Julien TRÉBOSC is research engineer at Lille 1 University, in charge of a high field NMR spectrometer (800 MHz) since 2005.