Solid State NMR

Dr. Olivier Lafon is a professor at the University of Lille. The focus of his research is to push the frontiers of solid-state NMR spectroscopy in order to gain unique insights into the structure-property relationships of materials used in the fields of bio-economy, energy and health. His current research interests include the development of novel solid-state NMR methods, notably at high magnetic fields, for quadrupolar nuclei or using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP), as well as their application for the characterization of materials, including heterogeneous catalysts, porous materials and energy materials. Olivier Lafon received a B.Sc. in physical chemistry from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He obtained MS and PhD degrees from the University of Paris South. He was awarded the Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry Award for Young Scientists by the Euromar scientific committee and became a fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2016. He is the chief science officer of the Lille high-field NMR facility, part of the INFRANALYTICS research infrastructure, and the coordinator of the project to install a 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer in Lille. He is also member of the editorial board of the journal "Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance".

Dr. Frédérique Pourpoint is an assistant professor at the Centrale Lille since 2012. She is working on the development of new methods in solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) adapted to nuclei exhibiting close Larmor frequencies including the pair of spins {27Al-13C}. She is using such technique for the local characterization of microporous materials including Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). Her research interests are also focused on the Dynamic Nuclear Polarization method, which allows enhancing the NMR signal.

Dr. Julien Trébosc is research engineer at CNRS, in charge of a high field NMR spectrometer (800 MHz) since 2005. He is an expert in solid-state NMR, especially regarding quadrupolar nuclei. He develops new pulse sequences that aim at enhancing NMR experiment sensitivity and at measuring a number of structural information on materials at atomic scale. He is mostly focusing on inorganic materials, often observing difficult atoms as low-gamma quadrupolar nuclei (25Mg, 35Cl, 14N, etc) in a broad range of materials (glasses, clays, zeolites etc).