Pierre H. Dixneuf

Pierre H. Dixneuf, initially worked with Prof René Dabard on ferrocene chemistry for PhD and Dr es Science and with Prof. Michael F. Lappert on N-Heterocyclic Carbene
(NHC)-Metal complexes. Professor of organometallic chemistry at the University of Rennes since 1978 he developed Catalysis since 1985 on catalytic processes promoted
first with ruthenium catalysts and then initiated a CNRS Rennes-Catalysis center.

He successively developed selective catalytic transformations of alkynes, incorporation of CO2, ruthenium-vinylidenes and -allenylidenes in catalysis, enantioselective
hydrogenation for industry with chiral Ru catalysts, new alkene metathesis catalysts from allenylidenes and their applications in the transformation of plant oil derivatives
and precursors of polyamides. He is now contributing since 2007 to C–H bond activation/functionalization using Ru(II) and Rh(I) catalysts especially operating in
water, and to mild innovative reduction processes.

He has co-authored 480 publications and reviews, 30 from 2017, and co-edited 7 books. He received international prizes : A. v Humboldt prize for Research 1990, Le Bel SCF
award and Grignard-Wittig Prize (Germany) in 2000, Institut Universitaire de France membership in 2000, académie des sciences IFP prize and Sacconi medal (Italy) in
2006, Chemical Society Awards from Spain and China in 2014, and Portugal in 2021.

He was elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2016, the Portugal academy of sciences in 2017, the National Academy of Sciences, India in
2020 and of Academia Europaea in 2022. He is currently an Emeritus Research Professor at the University of Rennes, France, where he founded the CNRS-UR1 research Institut de chimie de Rennes in 2000 and was university vice-president for research (2001-2004) after his work as Scientific Deputy Director of CNRS Chemistry in Paris (1996-1999).