Jean-François Lutz

Dr. Jean-François Lutz is CNRS Research Director (exceptional class status: DRCE2) and Director of the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering in Strasbourg. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Montpellier II in 2000 and his habilitation degree from the University of Potsdam in 2009. Before joining ISIS, he was post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (2001-2003), leader of the research group Nanotechnology for Life Science at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (2003-2010) and leader of the Precision Macromolecular Chemistry group at the Institut Charles Sadron (2010-2022). His current research interests include the synthesis of sequence-controlled polymers and the design of informational polymers. He is author of over 250 publications including 10 patents and is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in the category Chemistry. He has received in 2018 the Silver Medal of the French CNRS and was appointed in 2022 as a Senior distinguished member of the French Chemical Society. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Polymer Science (IF 27.1).