Professor Sylvain Marque, from the University of Aix-Marseille in France, special guest of an event organized by the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Bucharest

On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Bucharest organized the conference Smart Alkoxyamines: A new tool for Applications in Biology and Materials Sciences, held by Professor Sylvain Marque, from the University of Aix-Marseille, France.

Held within the Department of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis of the Faculty of Chemistry, the event took place in the Mihailescu Amphitheater inside the Rectorate of the University of Bucharest. The event was attended by professors and students of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Bucharest.

Sylvain Marque has been a professor of chemistry at the University of Aix-Marseille (France) since 2008, and also hold a position of professor between 2015-2018 at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in Novosibirsk (Russia), where he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The main areas of interest are the radical species that appear in chemistry, biology, medicine and materials science.

Given that the University of Aix-Marseille is one of the 10 universities of the CIVIS consortium, the meeting also included the presentation of the “Faculty of Science of AMU in CIVIS alliance”, which revealed to students the opportunities that the French University offers. Professor Sylvain Marque’s visit to the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Bucharest was funded by CIVIS, with the aim of promoting the research interests of the Faculty of Science of the University of Aix-Marseille and establishing scientific collaborations, in particular those on free radical chemistry. In addition, Professor Sylvain Marque visited the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Bucharest and IFIN-HH, where he held two other conferences.