Institut de Chimie Physique UMR8000
CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay (France)
Abderrahmane TADJEDDINE studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique (now ENS Paris-Saclay) from 1964 to 1969. He graduated at the CNRS and the Université Paris VII (now Université Paris-Diderot) and received his Doctorat d’Etat in 1976. He is presently Distinguished Director of Research Emeritus (Directeur de Recherche de Classe Exceptiionnelle Emérite) at the CNRS).
He was successfully:
- Research scientist (1969 – 1984) then Senior Scientist (Directeur de Recherche) at Laboratoire d’Electrochimie Interfaciale, Meudon-Bellevue, France (1984-1994)
- Senior Scientist at The Laboratoire pour l’Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique (LURE), National French Synchrotron Facility runned by the CNRS, the CEA and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (1994-2009)
- Emeritus Senior Scientist at the Institut de Chimie Physique CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay (since his retirement in 2009)
From 1999 to 2009, he was deputy- director (1999-2002) then Director of LURE, strongly engaged in the project SOLEIL of the new Third Generation French Synchrotron Facility and the dismantling of the old accelerators after their shutdown end 2003.
His major research interests are at the interface between electrochemistry, catalysis, surface and materials science, nanoscience, optics, combining chemical and physical in situ approaches, including linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopies from far Infrared to hard X rays, combining laboratory as well as large facilities experimental tools. He has around 250 referred papers, 265 invited lectures and keynotes and superviseded around 50 PhD.
He was involved in the managment of Large Scale Research Infrastructures at the French and the European level and his presently member of the Haut Conseil pour les Infrastructures de Recherche du ministère français de l’Enseignement superieur, de la recherché et de linnovation.
He is since 2015 a founding member of the Algerian Academy of Sciences and Technologies.