Dr. Christian Bruneau

Dr. Christian Bruneau Professor of Chemistry, CNRS-The University of Rennes, France

Webpage: http://scienceschimiques.univ-rennes1.fr/catalyse/personnels/interface/CB.htm Dr. Christian Bruneau graduated in chemistry from the Institut National Supérieur de Chimie Industrielle de Rouen (France, 1974) and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Rennes in the field of organic and environmental chemistry (1979). He got a CNRS position in 1980 and from 1986 has been working in the field of organometallic chemistry, catalyst design, and molecular catalysis. Initially in the group of Prof. Pierre H. Dixneuf, he is now mainly involved in ruthenium-catalyzed selective transformations including olefin metathesis, allylation, sp2- and sp3-C-H bond activation/functionalization, asymmetric catalysis, and bio-resources transformations. From 2000 to 2011, he has been the head of the CNRS-University of Rennes research group involved in ‘‘Organometallics and Catalysis’’.