Danielle Laurencin
- Permanent/chercheur
- Chimie et Matériaux Moléculaires
- ICGM - UMR5253 - CC043 - Pôle Chimie Balard Recherche - 1919 route de Mende - 34293 Montpellier cedex 5
- ☎ 04 48 79 21 25
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- orcid: 0000-0002-7445-0528
I. About the scientist
- 2022-Present : Director of research at the CNRS
- 2015 : Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR), University of Montpellier
- 2013 : CNRS Bronze Medal
- 2009-2022 : Research fellow at the CNRS
- 2007-2008 : Post-doctorate at the University of Warwick (Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship)
- 2003-2006 : PhD in inorganic chemistry, Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI)
- 2002-2003 : Aggregation of Physical Sciences, option Chemistry
- 2001-2002 : Master’s degree & DEA at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
- 2021-present : Elected member of the MagLab user committee (USA).
- 2020-present : Member of the board of the “Chemistry and Molecular Materials” department of the ICGM.
- 2019-present : Associate editor of the journal “Solid State NMR” (Elsevier).
- 2015-2020 : Co-representative of the ICGM IMNO team.
- 2012-2018 : Elected member and treasurer of the Solid State Chemistry Division of the Chemical Society of France.
II. Research activities

Development of oxygen-17 isotope enrichment methods through mechanochemistry
Part of our research activities aims to enrich molecules and materials with oxygen-17, by "liquid assisted grinding", using only a few microliters of water enriched in 17O. This allowed us to then perform unprecedented high-resolution 17O solid NMR analyses to elucidate the structure and reactivity of molecules and (nano)materials.
- The development of 17O isotopic enrichment processes by mechanochemistry for high-resolution solid NMR analyses.
- The synthesis and study of the structure of biomaterials and biominerals incorporating a “calcium phosphate” part, using in particular 43Ca solid NMR analysis methods.
- The implementation of new operando methods to follow the course of mechanochemistry reactions.
Current contracts:
ERC Consolidator grant (MISOTOP project – www.misotoplab.org): Oct 2018-Dec 2024– ANR collaborative “PRC” (TOGETHER project, directed by Prof Christel Gervais): 2020- 2024
Main ongoing collaborations:
Prof Christel Gervais & Prof Christian Bonhomme (Sorbonne University, Paris)Dr
Zhehong Gan, Dr Frédéric Mentink-Vigier, Dr Ivan Hung & Prof Robert Schurko (MagLab, Tallahassee, USA)Dr
Frédérique Pourpoint & Dr Julien Trébosc (UCCS Lille, France)Dr
Saad Sene & Dr Gautier Félix (ICGM, Montpellier, France)Dr
Pierre Florian & Dr Vincent Sarou-Kanian (CEMHTI, Orléans, France)
Dr Gaël de Paëpe, Dr Paul Subhradip (CEA, Grenoble, France)Prof
Melinda Duer (University of Cambridge, UK)
Prof Mark E. Smith (University of Southampton, UK)
Dr Benjamin Nottelet (IBMM, Montpellier, France)
III. Scientific Production
