Patrick Pale
University of Strasbourg, France
Biography
Patrick Pale studied at the University of Champagne in France. After an industrial stay in a pharmaceutical company, he joined the group of Prof L Ghosez as a Post-doc fellow in Belgium. Back to France, he got a CNRS position and then a Research Associate position at Harvard University in the group of G Whitesides. In 1995, he got a full Professor position at the University of Strasbourg, France. Subsequently, he was awarded Professor at the “Institut Universitaire de France” from 1996 to 2001. His scientific interests include the (asymmetric) synthesis of bioactive compounds, organometallic chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry and enzymatic chemistry, and more recently chemistry with materials such as zeolites, MOF, POM.