Curriculum Vitae

Alexander Kuhn Full Professor, Institute of Molecular Sciences, University Bordeaux, France (https://nsysa.ism-bordeaux.cnrs.fr/ )

Career

1986-91 Chemistry Studies at the Technical University Munich, University of Bordeaux and Oxford University

1994 PhD in electrochemistry, University of Bordeaux

1995-96 Post-doc at the California Institute of Technology

1996 Assistant Professor, University Bordeaux

2000- Full Professor, ENSCBP, University Bordeaux

Honors

1984-91 Fellow of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"

1992 Fellowship of the European Community for the PhD thesis

1994 Young scientist award of the French Chemical Society for the best PhD thesis

1995 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation

2001 Electrochemistry award of the French Chemical Society

2005- Adjunct Professor at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

2005 Promotion to 1st class Professor

2006 Invited visiting Professor KFKI Research Center Budapest, Hungary

2007 Invited visiting Professor University of Venice, Italy

2008 Invited visiting Professor Harvard University, USA (six months sabbatical)

2008/2013 Distinguished Lecturer, Abo Akademi, Finland

2012 Promotion to exceptional class professor

2013 Nomination as senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) 2014- Adjunct Professor at the Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology(VISTEC), Thailand 2015 Nomination as Distinguished Senior Fellow of the French Chemical Society 2017-2022 ERC Advanced Grant for the project “ELECTRA” 2020-2023 Distinguished Professor of the “Outstanding Talent Program” of Henan University, China 2020 Nomination as Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry

Professional Societies

-German Chemical Society (GDCh) -French Chemical Society (SFC), Council member of Electrochemistry Subdivision 2016-2018 -International Society of Electrochemistry(ISE), Chair of Bioelectrochemistry Division 2011-2012 -Electrochemical Society (ECS), Council member of the European division 2006-2008 -French Bioelectrochemistry Group (GFB), Council member 2008-2014 -Bioelectrochemical Society (BES), Council member, Treasurer 2008-2019

Other activities

-Member of scientific and organizing committees of over 50 national and international meetings -Member of the editorial advisory board of different journals: Anal. & Bioanal. Chem. (2007-2010), Bioelectrochemistry (2007-), Electroanalysis (2012-), Electrochim. Acta (2013-2017), ChemPhysChem (2015-), Sci.Rep. (2015-), ChemElectroChem (2018-), Microchim.Acta (2020-), Chair of the editorial advisory board of ChemPhysChem (2019-) -Member of the council of the national agency for evaluation of research (AERES) (2007-2013) -Member of the national committee of physical, theoretical and analytical chemistry of CNRS (2016-2021)

Scientific production

Author of 10 patents and >200 publications in peer-reviewed journals

Main research interest

Modified electrodes with a special focus on applications in electroanalysis, bioelectrochemistry and electrocatalysis; nanomaterials; micro- and nanomotors; Janus particles; bipolar electrochemistry, chirality