Dr. Kathleen I. Moineau-Chane Ching

Dr. Kathleen Isabelle Moineau-Chane Ching is Senior Researcher at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination/CNRS Toulouse (France). She completed her PhD studies in chemistry (organophosphorylated molecules and polymers for non-linear optics) at the University of Paris VI in 1995, and received her "Habilitation" (electropolymerization of functional pi-conjugated systems: study of electronic interactions in reticulated systems) at the University of Paris VII in 2005. From 1995 to 2006, at lab. ITODYS, Univ. of Paris VII: her activity was mainly focused on synthesis of pyrrole and thiophene for innovative materials obtained by electropolymerization. These materials were involved in several studies: materials with switchable magnetic properties (dual properties: conductivity and magnetism), impact of the polymer architecture on the electronic interchain transfer. From 2006 to present: lab. de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS Toulouse: she moved to Toulouse to drive a new theme centered on electronic transfer for materials used in energy conversion/transfer. Her current research concerns the synthesis and the study of original organic materials presenting specific aggregation behavior for organic electronics or photophysical properties for imaging purposes. Molecular engineering is at the heart of her research work and it is mainly focused on a combination of organic fluorophores with phosphorylated dendrimers. She has coauthored 80 publications. Her H index is 23.