Nadine ESSAYEM

Dr Nadine Essayem is CNRS Director of Research at the Institute for Research in Catalysis and Environment (IRCELYON) at the University of Lyon. After a degree of chemical engineer, she obtained in 1991 a PhD from the University of Poitiers (France) on the catalytic hydrogenation of fatty nitriles. Then, she got a permanent position at CNRS, first in charge of solid acid catalysis for hydrocarbons conversion. She did pioneering studies in aliphatic alkylation in supercritical phase using a continuous flow reactor. At present, her main current research activities concern bioressources conversion by mean of solid acid/base catalysis. Nadine Essayem is co-authors of 20 patents and more than 80 publications.