Frédérique Battin-Leclerc

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Frédérique Battin-Leclerc (born 1964) is a French chemist who studies combustion, particularly gas-phase combustion of hydrocarbons including biofuels, in order to develop cleaner-burning automotive fuels.[1] She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés in Nancy, France.

Education and career

Battin-Leclerc was born in 1964. She earned an engineering degree from the École nationale supérieure des industries chimiques in Nancy in 1987, completed a Ph.D. at the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine in Nancy in 1991, and earned a habilitation at the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine in 1997.[2]

She has been a researcher for the CNRS since 1991.[2]

Recognition

Battin-Leclerc won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2010,[1] and was named as a knight in the Ordre national du Mérite in 2012.[2]

She was elected to the inaugural 2018 class of Fellows of The Combustion Institute, "for innovative research on the formulation of detailed chemical mechanisms for complex practical fuels".[3]

She was the 2022 recipient of the Polanyi Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "La chercheuse de moteurs plus propres" [The seeker of cleaner engines], Le Républicain Lorrain (in French), 8 July 2011
  2. ^ a b c "Candidate profile and curriculum vitae" (PDF), 2018 Board of Directors election, The Combustion Institute, retrieved 2022-09-12
  3. ^ Fellows of The Combustion Institute, The Combustion Institute, retrieved 2022-09-12
  4. ^ "Frédérique Battin-Leclerc received the Polanyi Medal", EMPP: Energy Mechanics Processes Products, University of Lorraine, 7 September 2022, retrieved 2023-06-10

External links

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