Jean-Marie Tarascon, Professor at Collège de France, awarded the 2022 CNRS Gold Medal
Jean-Marie Tarascon, a chemist and Professor at Collège de France, us awarded the 2022 CNRS Gold Medal. He is renown internationally as one of the leaders in basic research relating to materials for batteries, especially distinguishing himself through his pioneering research on Lithium-ion batteries. The whole academic PSL community rejoices at this honor.
Created in 1954, the CNRS Gold Medal is one the most prestigious French awards in science. This year it has recognized the chemist Jean-Marie Tarascon for his pioneering research in understanding and discovering new Li reactivity concepts, synthesising new electrode materials and electrolytes for batteries, and developing new battery chemistries.
Tarascon, who was born in 1953 in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne), is a specialist in solid-state chemistry and electrochemistry. He has been a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2004, and joined the Collège de France in 2014. Throughout his career, he has simultaneously conducted basic research and pursued the applications for that research, without ever making concessions with regard to scientific excellence. He is heading the Solid-State Chemistry and Energy Laboratory (CNRS/Collège de France/Sorbonne Université), as well as the Research Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E). Since his early career in the United States he has navigated between the idea and the prototype, at the intersection of academia and industry.
Jean-Marie Tarascon is the 51th professor who, having studied or researched within PSL, also received the Gold Medal.