Pierre Audebert is a Professor of Chemistry at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. He was a member of Institut Universitaire de France – first as a junior member and until 2019 a senior member.
Prof. Pierre Audebert wrote a thesis on halogenated and functionalized polypyrrole in Grenoble. In 1988, he studied charge transfer in new, modified electrodes at the French National Center for Scientific Research. Since 1998 Prof. Audebert and his team have been researching conductive polymers and organic electrochemistry. They have also been working in the sol-gel environment. Pierre Audebert had especially focused on compounds from the tetrazine family in which he discovered fluorescence. His team has been researching the interaction between electrochemistry and fluorescence called electrofluorochromism. Pierre Audebert’s project is based on new tetrazines and their use in photocatalysis. He participated in numerous ANR (national French research agency) projects (leader of project Nanoencre 2005-2008) and was a leader member of the European ITN Excilight Grant. Minor partner of the H 2020 Gotsolar project.
Prof. Audebert is an author of over 260 scientific articles, 14 reviews and book chapters, an electrochemistry textbook and co-editor of “Luminescence in electrochemistry”.