Patrick Lacroix-Desmazes is Research Director at CNRS. He  graduated in 1992 from the National Graduate School of Chemistry of Montpellier. He obtained his PhD degree in 1996 at the University of Lyon. After working at BP Chemicals in 1997, he joined the CNRS in Montpellier and was promoted to CNRS Research Director in 2009. He is the head of the polymers department at the Charles Gerhardt Institute in Montpellier. His research interests include reversible-deactivation radical polymerizations, synthesis of polymer colloids and hybrid materials in aqueous media, synthesis and utilization of polymers in supercritical carbon dioxide, as well as green chemistry and circular economy. He has been named Distinguished Member of the French Chemical Society in 2018.