Bazin

Dominique Bazin Research Director at the CNRS Institute of Physical Chemistry in Orsay (Île-de-France), studied solid state physics at the Université Paris XI, Orsay, where he obtained his 3ème Cycle thesis in 1985 on the characterization of nanometer scale metallic clusters. He was appointed CNRS researcher in 1985 in the solid state physics group at LURE (Laboratoire pour l’Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique) to develop in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) characterization of supported nanometer scale metallic clusters used in in various industrial processes such as reforming, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis or automotive afterburning. In 1991, he undertook a postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Dale Sayers’ group in Raleigh at NCSU (North Carolina State University) for 14 months to develop AWAXS (Anomalous Wide Angle X-ray Scattering) data analysis. He was appointed director at CNRS in 2001, and in 2004 moved to LPS (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides), Université Paris

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Pathological calcification, heterogeneous catalysis