Speakers bios - MATISSE EVENT
MATériaux, InterfaceS, Surfaces, Environnement

Prof. Marc D McKee is a full professor at McGill University in Montreal with a joint appointment in the Faculties of Dentistry and Medicine. His research is primarily focused on mineralization (calcification) of extracellular matrices in bones and teeth, and in other biomineralizing systems such as inner-ear otoconia and eggshells. In particular, he is interested in the role of mineral-binding proteins in normal mineralization and pathologic mineralization. He has co-authored over 170 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

http://www.mcgill.ca/dentistry/research/our-researchers/mckee

Frédéric Marin is a director of research at the CNRS and works in the research unit Biogéosciences at University of Bourgogne. His research focuses on the extracellular matrices associated with calcium carbonate biominerals, and their characterization by biochemical, immunological and molecular biology techniques. He received the NOW-Vening-Meinesz prize in 1998. He has co-authored over 60 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

http://biogeosciences.u-bourgogne.fr/fr/personnel/15-fr/personnel/229-frederic-marin

Denis Gebauer is a fellow at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz. His research primarily focuses on understanding the mechanisms of nucleation and crystallization using physical chemical analyses including potential measurements and titration as well as electron microscopy, analytical ultracentrifugation and NMR. He received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize in 2012 and the Michelson Prize for the best dissertation of 2008/2009. He has co-authored more than 30 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including Science.

http://cms.uni-konstanz.de/gebauer/team/dr-denis-gebauer/

Anders Meibom is a professeur ordinaire at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. He leads a highly interdisciplinary group of scientists to work on problems at the interface between isotope geochemistry, mineralogy and biology, including the understanding of environmentally important biological processes at sub-cellular length scales. He received the European Mineralogical Union Medal for Research Excellence in 2008. He has co-authored more than 130 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Nature, PNAS.

http://people.epfl.ch/anders.meibom?lang=fr

Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz is Research Professor of the National Research Council (CSIC) at the University of Granada. His main fields of study are the phenomena of self-organization in biological and geological structures, with implications from the origin of life to the synthesis of new materials. Is an internationally recognized expert in mineral genesis, highlighting their studies on the formation of giant crystals of gypsum and on crystallization of drugs and proteins. He is an Advanced ERC grantee and co-authored more than 150 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including Science and PNAS.

http://garciaruiz.net/juanma/index.html

Matthias Epple is a Professor in inorganic Chemistry at University of Duisburg Essen. His work primarily focuses on developing and applying biomaterials in close collaboration with physicians, studying biominerals with high-end solid-state chemical methods and conducting biomimetic crystallization of inorganic materials to simulate pathological crystallization phenomena. He received an Heisenberg Grant from the DFG in 1998-2000, the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award in 1998; and was a fellow of the Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment in 2004 and the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2007. He has co-authored more than 300 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

https://www.uni-due.de/chemie/ak_epple/en/

Christèle Combes is a professor at the inter-university center of research and engineering of materials at University Toulouse III. Her research focuses on biomineralization of phosphate and calcium carbonates, biomaterials, ionic cements and biomimetism.

http://www.cirimat.cnrs.fr/Annuaire/?membre=48

François Guyot is a professor of Mineralogy in the national Museum of Natural History (MNHN) in Paris. His research primarily focuses on understanding how the properties of minerals at the atomic scale affect the properties of Earth and other planets. He has worked on diverse topics including CO₂ sequestration, silicate weathering, the deep biosphere and the deep Earth, biomineralization and prebiotic synthesis of organic molecules. He received the bronze medal from the CNRS. He has co-authored more than 230 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Nature and PNAS.

http://www.impmc.upmc.fr/~guyot/

Ina Reiche is a director of research at the CNRS at the Laboratoire d’Archéologie Moléculaire et Structurale, presently working in Berlin, Rathgen research laboratory National Museums in Berlin Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Her research focuses on archaeometry of historical and archaeological biomaterials (bone, ivory, antler, cave sites) as well as pigments and minerals. She is interested in the identification and understanding of alteration and transformation processes of these materials by analytical methods such as synchrotron methods (XRF, SAXS/WAXS, XANES, IR), ion beam analyses (PIXE/PIGE), lab (confocal XRF) and mobile analyses (Raman, XRF/XRD). She has co-authored more than 60 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

http://www.umr-lams.fr/spip.php?article35

Nicolas Menguy is a professor of Physics at university Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. His research primarily focuses on nucleation and growth in glasses, synthetic or natural iron nano-oxides and magnetotactic bacteria. He has co-authored more than 90 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including Science and PNAS.

http://www.impmc.jussieu.fr/~menguy/