Christian Amatore
Christian Amatore (born 9 December 1951 in Algeria) is a French chemist and a member of the French
Academy of Sciences. He is an author of works in electrochemistry.
Biography
Coming from a modest family (Sicilian by his father, Swedish by his mother), he spent a large part of his
childhood in Algeria in several garrison towns of Laghouat, Hain-el-Adjar, Sidi Bel Abbès where his
father was an NCO of the Foreign Legion. He followed his father's advice "if you are intelligent but you
have no education, you remain mute" and followed brilliant studies in Algeria and then in France where
his Blackfoot family was repatriated: first to the Lycée Pascal-Paoli in Corte, then to the Lycée Thiers in
Marseille where he completed two years of preparatory classes,[1][2] and finally to the École normale
supérieure (rue d'Ulm - Paris) where he obtained the agrégation de chimie in 1974. At the age of 18, he
opted for French nationality. Following his thesis at the University of Paris-VII under Jean-Michel
Savéant, he was recruited by CNRS as a Research Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry. After this,
he left for the United States for two years as Assistant Professor in an organometallic chemistry research
laboratory where he met Mark Wightman at Indiana University with whom he had a pioneering role in
the development of ultramicroelectrodes that he applied in artificial synapses. In 1984, he returned to
France to found his laboratory at the ENS and became Director of the Chemistry Department at the ENS
in 1997.[3] He held these management functions until 2006.[4]
Career
Normalien (1971), agrégé de chimie (1974), docteur ès sciences (1979), docteur honoris
causa from several European and Asian universities
Research Director at the CNRS, Professor at the ENS.
Correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences in April 1996, member in November
2002.[5]
Delegate for Education and Training of the French Academy of Sciences (2011)
Member of the steering committee of the Fondation Écologie d'Avenir.[6]
Awards
2018 Fray International Sustainability Award at SIPS 2018 [7]
References
1. "La science dans tous ses états" (http://www.sciences-corse.fr/bilan/pages/science_p1.htm
l). www.sciences-corse.fr. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
2. "Christian Amatore, le chimiste anticonformiste" (https://www.canalacademie.com/ida6934-C
hristian-Amatore-le-chimiste-anticonformiste.html). www.canalacademie.com. May 2011.
Retrieved 2019-02-08.
3. Christian Amatore, le chimiste anticonformiste, entretien sur Canal Académie, 1er mai 2011
4. "Christian Amatore - Biographie, CV" (http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membre
s-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-A/christian-amatore.html). www.academie-sciences.fr (in
French). Retrieved 2018-05-03.
5. "Académie des sciences" (https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Aca
demie-des-sciences-/-A/christian-amatore.html).
6. "Fondation Ecologie d'Avenir: Le Conseil d'Orientation" (https://web.archive.org/web/201405
27142717/http://fondationecologiedavenir.org/Conseil_Orientation.htm). Archived from the
original (http://fondationecologiedavenir.org/Conseil_Orientation.htm) on 2014-05-27.
Retrieved 2019-10-11.
7. "Christian Amatore Winner of the Fray Award" (https://www.flogen.org/?p=38&bio=Amatore).
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