Michel Pouchard


Michel Pouchard is a French chemist specialising in the physico-chemistry of inorganic solids.

Biography

After studying at the David high school in Angers and at the faculties of science at University of Rennes and University of Bordeaux, Michel Pouchard specializes in the physico-chemistry of inorganic solids: oxides of transition metals, electronic properties and electrochemistry and in the science of functional materials.
Trainee then research associate at the CNRS from 1960 to 1967, he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Bordeaux from 1967 to 1970, then professor at the University of Bordeaux I from 1970 to 1992. From 1992 to 2002, he was a professor at the Institut universitaire de France.
He was elected a member of the French Academy of sciences on 16 November 1992. He is also a member of the Academy of Technologies, the French Society of Chemistry, the Academia europaea and the Leopoldina Academy .

Publications

Michel Pouchard is the author of nearly 400 articles published in the best journals in solid-state chemistry and materials science and some fifteen patents.

Distinctions

Prices

Langevin Prize of the French Academy of sciences

Decorations