Nicolas Merle
Maître de conférences
CNU : SECTION 32 - CHIMIE ORGANIQUE, MINERALE, INDUSTRIELLE
Laboratoire / équipe
Parcours
Since 2017: Maître de Conférences IUT Lille/UCCS
- Surface organometallic chemistry of nickel for oligomerization
- Organometallic chemistry of nickel for polymerization
- use of cellulose as support for CO2/epoxide cycloaddition
- Use of cellulose for Co nanoparticles immobilization for catalytic reduction
2011 - 2017: Research Associate. Laboratoire de Chimie, Catalyse et Procédés de Polymérisation, Lyon, France
- Heterogeneous catalysts development for the direct transformation of methane to methanol within the NEXT-GTL 7th European Framework Programme, ethylene trimerization, olefin metathesis and decomposition of NO (Toyota) and now ammoxydation of propylene in collaboration with KAUST university.
2009 - 2011: Research Associate. University of Bergen, Norway
- Tailloring of new late transition metal organometallic catalysts for random copolymerisation of functionalised olefins assisted by DFT predictions.
2007 - 2009: Research Associate. Laboratoire de Chimie Organométallique de Surface, Lyon
- Development of alkanes metathesis catalysts and their evaluation in dynamic flow reactors for the conversion of natural gases to liquid fuel and high octane number molecules, in collaboration with British Petroleum (BP)
2006 - 2007: Research Associate, Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse, Lyon, France
- Development of tantalum complexes as precursor for MOCVD deposition in collaboration with Air Liquide
2003 - 2005: PhD Student. University of Bath
- Preparation and characterisation of transition metal complexes of chelating phosphine boranes and their application as catalyst such as in Diels Alder cycloadition.
This PhD work was granted by EPSRC, supervised by Andrew S. Weller, Michael C. Willis and Christopher G. Frost.