Olivier Coulembier

OLIVIER COULEMBIER graduated from the University of Mons-Hainaut in 2005 and moved to Stanford University and the IBM Almaden Research Center to undertake periods of postdoctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Robert M. Waymouth and Dr. James L. Hedrick. In 2008, Olivier returned to Belgium as Research Associate of the F.R.S.-FNRS before being appointed as a Professor of Chemistry for the University of Mons in 2017 and subsequently as a Senior Research Associate of the F.R.S.-FNRS in October 2020. In 2022, he was awarded the AXA Research Chair in Chemistry, focusing on health and environmental domains, specifically the recycling and upcycling of plastic waste through the utilization of CO2. Olivier is currently working in the Laboratory of Polymeric and Composite Materials (LPCM) at the University of Mons.

He has (co)authored more than 150 scientific papers in international journals, 4 patents and 4 book chapters.