Biography
Géraldine Masson received her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble, France) in 2003 under the supervision of Dr. Sandrine Py and Prof. Yannick Vallée. She then moved to the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow, working with Prof. Jan van Maarseveen and Prof. Henk Hiemstra.
In 2005, she joined the CNRS as a researcher in the group of Prof. Jieping Zhu at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN). She established her independent research activity in 2011 and has led the POWER group (Photocatalysis and Organocatalysis With Efficient Reactivity) since 2012. She was promoted to CNRS Research Director (DR2) in 2014 and to DR1 in 2020. In 2021, she became Co-Director of the joint CNRS–SEQENS laboratory HitCat, and since 2025 she serves as Deputy Director of ICSN.
She has served as Deputy Editor of ACS Organic & Inorganic Au since 2021 and as Associate Editor of The Journal of Organic Chemistry (ACS) since 2019.
Her research focuses on the development of innovative catalytic methodologies for the synthesis of optically active, biologically relevant molecules, with particular emphasis on asymmetric organocatalysis and photoredox catalysis.
Plenary Lecture
Title: From Asymmetric Organocatalysis to Photoredox Strategies for Building Complex Molecules
Abstract
