The Postdoctorate Guide
Marc Robert gained his Ph.D. in 1995 from Paris Diderot University (now Université Paris Cité). After a postdoctoral stay at Ohio State University (USA) with Matthew Platz, he joined the faculty at Paris Diderot University as Associate Professor (1997). He joined Sorbonne Université in the summer of 2024 as Distinguished Professor.
Among several distinctions, M. Robert was awarded the first International Prize Essential Molecules Challenge fromAir Liquide (2016), a French National Innovation Prize (2021) and the Senior Researcher Prize from the French Chemical Society (Physical Chemistry division, 2022). In March 2024, he received the International Prize of the Society for the Coordination Chemistry of Japan, and he has been recently listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Chemistry (2023, 2025). Since November 2020, he is the CSO of Carboneo, a start-up company that aims to develop CO2 electrolyzers.
Marc is also an International Advisory Board member at Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ChemSusChem (Wiley), Artificial Photosynthesis and ACS Electrochemistry (ACS).
