Matthieu Sollogoub

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Matthieu Sollogoub is Professor of Molecular Chemistry at Sorbonne Université. He started his career as a “pure” carbohydrate chemist in the direct lineage of his PhD mentor Pierre Sinaÿ at Ecole Normale Supérieure, but he now shifted towards Supramolecular chemistry using cyclodextrins, probably influenced by his post-doctoral stay in Southampton with Tom Brown. The corner-stone of his research is the ability he has developed in his group to regioselectively hetero-functionalize cyclodextrins with different chemical functions. This ability now serves to synthesize ligands encapsulating metals in a well-defined asymmetric cavity allowing stereo- and regioselective catalysis. It is also applied to synthesize molecular bricks that self-assemble in a controlled and hierarchical manner to form highly ordered assemblies with biological properties.