Frédéric Jaouen
- Permanent/chercheur
Frédéric Jaouen is a CNRS research director at the Charles Gerhardt Institute for Molecular Chemistry and Materials, and a Member of The Electrochemical Society, International Society of Electrochemistry, and Société Chimique de France.
The main activities of the electrocatalysis group in ICGM’s Department 4 entail the development of novel electrolyte and electrode materials for proton/anion exchange membrane fuel cells and electrolysers.
His research interests encompass the synthesis, structural and electrochemical characterisation of novel electrocatalysts based on Earth-abundant elements for catalysing key reactions for electrochemical energy conversion devices based on polymer-electrolytes, with a strong focus on single atom catalysts.
He is the co-author of 118 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 3 book chapters, 9 patents, 26 invited presentations at international conferences or workshops, and more than 130 other oral contributions to conferences.
I. A propos
Academic qualifications
- 2016: Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Université de Montpellier (France)
- 2003: Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH (Sweden)
- 1997: Diplôme d’Ingénieur de l’Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France)
Professional positions
- 2013 – now: CNRS research scientist at the Institute Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, UMR 5253, promoted to CNRS Research Director in 2020.
- June 2011 – December 2012: Contractual researcher at University of Montpellier, France, in the group of Deborah Jones, in the frame of a chair of excellence from Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
- 2004 – 2011: Contractual research associate at INRS – EMT, Varennes (QC) Canada, in the group of Jean-Pol Dodelet. Investigation of non-precious metal catalysts for the oxygen reduction in PEM fuel cells.
- May – December 2003: Post-doctoral fellow at The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Development of a micro-fuel cell with inexpensive materials.
- 1998 – 2003: Ph.D. studies in chemical engineering and electrochemistry at The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, under the supervision of Göran Lindbergh. Title: Electrochemical characterisation of porous cathodes in the polymer electrolyte fuel cell.
- 1994 – 1997: Engineering studies at Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France (ENSEEG, elective: materials, electrochemistry).
Distinction and awards
- 2017: Academic Research Prize from the French Chemical Society, Energy division.
- 2011: Awarded a Marie-Curie International Incoming Fellowship
- December 2010: Invited fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich, Germany (nomination by Hubert Gasteiger).
- 2001: Hans Werthén grant from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, for a 6 months exchange at INRS-EMT in Canada.
- Enseignement en Master 1, Université de Montpellier (cours électrochimie, 2011-2014)
- Responsable de la chaire d’excellence CAFERINNO (2011-2015)
- Coordinateur du projet ANR CAT2CAT (2016-2020)
- Coordinateur du projet Européen CREATE (2017-2020)
- Responsable d’un projet pré-maturation financé par la SATT AXLR (2018-2019)
- Membre de la commission intégrité scientifique de l’ICGM (2019 – )
- Membre de la commission communication de l’ICGM (2022 – )
- Président de la division transversale Energie de la Société Chimique de France (2022 – )
- Membre du comité de pilotage du laboratoire commun HydrogenLab (2022 – )
- Membre du comité d’orientation scientifique du laboratoire commun HydrogenLab (2022 – )
- Co-responsable ICGM pour une formation sur piles à combustible et électrolyseurs, dédiée aux entreprises, ‘CNRS Formations’ (2022 – )
- Coordinateur du projet ANR DEEP (2022 – )
II. Activités de recherche
Characterization of single iron atom catalysts across different scales
From upper left to bottom right: Electron microscopy image of single iron atoms in graphene / Identification of flooding at the anode of an anion-exchange membrane fuel cell comprising a Fe-N-C cathode / Mössbauer spectroscopy identification of two Fe-N4 sites in Fe-N-C materials / X-ray tomography of a Fe-N-C cathode after durability test in a proton-exchange-membrane fuel cell.
His research interests are the synthesis, structural and electrochemical characterisation of novel electrocatalysts based on Earth-abundant elements for catalysing key reactions for different types of fuel cells: O2 electroreduction in proton-exchange-membrane and anion-exchange-membrane fuel cells, hydrogen electro-oxidation in anion-exchange-membrane fuel cells, as well as for catalysing CO2 electroreduction to valuable chemical products. The synthesis of precious-metal-free catalysts, ex situ and in situ characterisation, implementation in electrochemical devices and the study of their operando degradation mechanisms are central to his work. The development of iron-nitrogen-carbon catalysts comprising single iron atom active sites is of particular interest to him, with syntheses approaches that are applicable to the preparation of other single-atom-catalysts, with different activity, stability and selectivity for various (electro)chemical reactions, such as H2O2 electrosynthesis, NO electroreduction, or also acting as nanozymes mimicking NADPH oxidase enzymes.
Collaborations
- Andrea Zitolo, Emiliano Fonda – Synchrotron SOLEIL (Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
- Frédéric Maillard, Laetitia Dubau – LEPMI (Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France)
- Sandrine Berthon-Fabry – Mines PARISTech PERSEE (Sophia Antipolis, France)
- Serhiy Cherevko, Karl Mayrhofer – Forschungszentrum Jülich HI – ERN (Erlangen, Germany)
- Peter Strasser – Technical University Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
- Kaido Tammeveski – Tartu University (Tartu, Estonia)
- Anthony Kucernak – Imperial College London (London, UK)
- Goran Drazic – National Institute of Chemistry (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Stefano Agnoli, Christian Durante – University of Padua (Padova, Italy)
- Dario Dekel – Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel)
- Sanjeev Mukerjee, Qingying Jia – Northeastern University (Boston, USA)
- Plamen Atanassov, Iryna Zenyuk – University California Irvine (Irvine, USA)
- William Mustain – University of South Carolina (Columbia, USA)
- Deborah Myers – Argonne National Laboratory (USA)
- Chang-Hyuck Choi – Pohang University of Science and Technology (Pohang, South Korea)
- Ruibin Li – Soochow University (Jiangsu, China)
- José Zagal, Federico Tasca – University Santiago de Chile (Santiago, Chile)
Contrats
Frédéric Jaouen was/is coordinator, work package leader or participant of numerous national (ANR), European research projects (H2020, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking), and international bilateral projects (Israel, Estonia).
He is collaborating with many research groups in France (SOLEIL, LEPMI, ARMINES) and abroad (Germany, Slovenia, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Estonia, Israel, USA, South Korea, China, Chile…).
He has also numerous collaborations with industrial partners in France and abroad, either within multi-partner collaborative projects or through direct collaboration (Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells, BMW, Volkswagen, Symbio, Michelin, …)
- Excellence chair CAFERINNO from the ANR (2011-2015)
- Coordinator of the ANR project CAT2CAT (2016-2020)
- Work Package Leader in CATAPULT, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (2013-2016)
- Coordinator of the H2020 project CREATE (2017-2020)
- Project supervisor for ICGM in the H2020 project A-LEAF (2016-2020)
- Participant of INSPIRE, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (2016-2019)
- Project supervisor for ICGM in the ANR project ANIMA (2019-2023)
- Work Package Leader in CRESCENDO, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (2018-2021)
- Project supervisor for ICGM in SUSTAINCELL, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (2023-2028)
- Participant of the joint laboratory HydrogenLab (2022-2026)
- Participant of the ANR PEPR project PEMFC 95 (2022-2026)
- Coordinator of the ANR project DEEP (2022-2025)
III. Production scientifique
