Lionel Vayssieres

Dr. Vayssieres is a senior scientist of National Institute for Materials Science (Japan) and director of International Center for Young Scientist. His recent research involves nano-composites for photo-catalytic devices. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry in 1995 from Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris. Thereafter, he joined Uppsala University (Sweden) as a postdoctoral fellow for the Swedish Materials Consortium on Clusters and Ultra-fine particles. He was a visiting scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, Stellenbosch University (South Africa), Glenn T. Seaborg center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He has authored over 50 publications with 93 citations per paper in Materials Science and 61 citations per paper in All Fields with over 2300 citations. He has presented over 190 invited lectures at various research institutions and major international conferences. He is the editor of the International Journal of Nanotechnology, and also serves as R&D consultant for Hydrogen Solar Ltd in UK.