Gabriel Canard

Activity

Chimie supramoléculaire, systèmes pi-conjugués, électrochimie

Themes

1) Syntheses and applications of corroles, porphyrins and other porphyrinoids 

2) Covalent and non-covalent multichromophoric assemblies

3) Electrochemistry

4) Syntheses and characterizations of benzoquinone mono-, and diimines, of azacalixarenes and of azacalixphyrins

Parcours

Dr. Gabriel Canard is Full Professor at Aix-Marseille University.

He carried his undergraduate and graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Burgundy (Dijon, France) where he completed his Ph.D thesis in 2004 with the supervision of Dr. Jean-Michel Barbe in the group of Pr. Roger Guilard. His Ph.D thesis was dealing with the selective adsorption of carbon monoxide by hybrid organic-inorganic materials incorporating cobalt(III) corroles.

In january 2005, he moved to the University of Geneva (Switzerland) to work as a postdoctoral research fellow in the group of Prof. Claude Piguet, where he developed various helicates incorporating lanthanide ions to investigate the contribution of various thermodynamic parameters in the stabilities of polymetallic complexes.

In september 2007, he was recruited as a Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor) at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT) of Aix-Marseille University where he teaches chemistry to undergraduate students. His research was conducted in the group of Pr. Teodor Silviu Balaban and was dealing with the syntheses, functionalizations and self-assemblies of porphyrin derivatives and of their contracted homologues corroles.

In October 2012, he joined the group of Dr. Olivier Siri at the CINaM where besides his research interest on porphyrinoids, he is involved in the main group research topics on the synthesis and developments of azacalixarenes and benzoquinone-diimines derivatives. Dr. Gabriel Canard received his "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" (Associate Professor position) in december 2017.

In September 2022, he became full professor at Aix-Marseille University.