AMC
Anne-Marie Caminade

Year of Election

Division

Nationality

Country/Region of working/living

City

Institute

CV

2022

Chemistry

French

France

Toulouse

Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS

Anne-Marie is Director of Research, Exceptional Class at the CNRS (the highest grade of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination in Toulouse (LCC), of which she is also Deputy Director (DUA) and Head of the “Dendrimers and Heterochemistry” team.

She has spent almost her entire scientific career in Toulouse, including 2 theses. She did a post doc after each of her theses, the first at the Institut Français du Pétrole (IFPEN) near Paris, the other in Germany, where she obtained an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship.

Her entire career has been devoted to the chemistry of phosphorus, in different aspects, such as coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, but especially phosphorus macromolecules, such as macrocycles and above all, dendrimers.

She is co-author of 508 publications, 55 book chapters, editor of 2 books on dendrimers, she has an h index of 76 (over 18,000 WOS citations).

She has received numerous awards, including very recently the nomination as "Chevallier de la Légion d'Honneur" (the highest civilian award in France), the Grand Prix Achille Le Bel from the Société Chimique de France (SCF) and the Victor Grignard – Georg Wittig Prize of the German Chemical Society (GDCh).