Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal
Regular Researcher

Since August 2024, Olivier Fontaine is assuming a position as a Professor at the University of Montreal. Since 2020, he has been a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, reflecting his commitment to academic excellence and research. In the same year, he was seconded to the Vistec Institute in Thailand, where his mission was to support the development and training of a new generation of Thai scientists, equipping them with the skills needed to address the pressing challenges of climate change. Prior to this, from 2012 to 2020, he served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Montpellier, contributing to both research and teaching in his field. A former member of RS2E, a network led by J-M Tarascon and P. Simon, Olivier Fontaine was responsible for the Electrolyte theme, contributing to advancements in energy storage research.

With a dual research profile in fundamental electrochemistry and molecular chemistry, Olivier abords electrochemistry with creativity but precision. After his doctorate studies in molecular electrochemistry (Paris Diderot), He earned multidisciplinary expertise through two post-doctorate positions at the College de France (Prof. Clément Sanchez) and the University of St Andrews (Prof. Peter G. Bruce, now Prof. in Oxford). Rich in these multidisciplinary approaches, He started my career as a young independent researcher, with the concern to know “how to use molecular electrochemistry to understand batteries and supercapacitors?”  In the field of molecular electrochemistry, redox reactions take place in the electrolyte, and the electrode is inert – or even flat – while in an electrochemical energy storage device the reactivity occurs at the interface or in the volume of the electrode material and it is the electrolyte that is electrochemically inert. The use of Molecular electrochemistry in the field of Energy storage is to unify instrumentation – data analysis – molecule design to serve the big societal challenges of energy.

Key Words : Energy Storage, Molecular chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, Marcus Theory

Address : Bureau B-3423
Complexe des sciences – campus MIL
1375, ave Thérèse-Lavoie-Roux
Montréal, QC H2V 0B3, Québec, Canada

Contact : olivier.fontaine.1@umontreal.ca

Website : https://olivierfontainemee.myportfolio.com/