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University Professor

Fonctions actuelles / Currently

• Professor in Physical Chemistry at the Nantes University
• Director of the Chemistry Teaching Department (01/09/2022 ->01/12/2025)
• Expert at the French Ministry of National Education, “Mission Europe et International pour la Recherche”.

Qualifications

• Professor in Physical Chemistry, PrCE1

Research topics / Research Themes

• Vibrational spectrometry and chemical Reactivity at the interfaces.
• Raman scattering and Infrared Absorption spectroscopies.
• Optical Near Field and sub-wavelength electromagnetic exaltation.
• Vibrational properties of nanostructures.
• Optical instrumentation for the chemistry….

Animation de la recherche / Research Community Activities – Teaching Responsibilities

• Co-supervisor of 22 thesis (20 defended), of 14 years of Post Docs
• Head Leader of the group PMN, Physics of Materials and Nanostructures (-> 31/12/2018)
• Committee Member of the GFSV “Groupe Francais des Spectroscopies de Vibration”.
• Committee Member of the GDR “Plasmonique Moleculaire et Spectroscopie Exaltée” (Molecular Plasmonics and Exalted Spectroscopy)
• Vice Director of the UMR 7564 CNRS-Univ Nancy, “Laboratoire de Chimie et Microbiologie pour l’Environnement”, Université Henri Poincaré – (Jan 2005 – Dec. 2008)
• Group leader of “Chimie et Spectro-Chimie des Interfaces” group (Jan 2002 – Dec 2008)
• Director of the educational department of the Physical Chemistry of the Henri Poincaré University (2004-2006)
• Member of 110 thesis and HDR juries.

Publications

As of 12/2025 :

• 150 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (H-Factor: 46)
• Key Papers :
• Issraa Shahine, Jean-Yves Mevellec, Mireille Richard-Plouet, Bernard Humbert and Pierre-Yves Tessier. J. Phys. Chem. C 2022, 126, 17223-17233, “Nanoporous Gold Stacked Layers as Substrates for SERS Detection in Liquids or Gases with Ultralow Detection Limits and Long-Term Stability.” doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c05903
• Sophie Camelio, et al, and Bernard Humbert *, Nanoscale Advances, (2021), “Linear chains of Ag nanoparticles embedded in dielectric films for SERS applications in analytical chemistry” DOI: 10.1039/d1na00586c
• Adrien Chauvin, et al, Bernard Humbert* and Pierre-Yves Tessier* and Abdelaziz El Mel, Nanoscale, (2020), 12, 12602 “Lamellar nanoporous gold thin films with tunable porosity for ultrasensitive SERS detection in liquid and gas phase” DOI: 10.1039/d0nr01721c
• Angelina D’Orlando, Jean-Yves Mevellec, Guy Louarn and Bernard Humbert . J. Phys. Chem. C (2020) 124, 4, 2705-2711 “AFM Nano-Manipulation by Confocal Raman Multiwavelength Spectroscopy: Application at the Monitoring of Resonance Profile Excitation Changes of Manipulated Carbon Nanotube”, doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b10096
• Dominik J. Winterauer*, Daniel Funes-Hernando, Jean-Luc Duvail, Saïd Moussaoui, Tim Batten, and Bernard Humbert, Applied Spectroscopy (2019) vol 73, iss8, 902-909 ” Sub-micron Spatial Resolution in Far-Field Raman Imaging Using Positivity-Constrained Super-Resolution” (DOI: 10.1177/0003702819832355)
• William Dudefoi, Hélène Terrisse, Mireille Richard-Plouet, Eric Gautron, Florin Popa, Bernard Humbert and Marie-Hélène Ropers*, Food Additives & Contaminants: part, (2017), “Criteria to define a more relevant reference sample of titanium dioxide in the context of food: a multiscale approach” doi.:10.1080/19440049.2017.1284346
• Carteret, C.; Dandeu, A.; Moussaoui, S.; Muhr, H.; Humbert, B.; Plasari, E. Crystal Growth & Design (2009) 9(2), 807-812, “Polymorphism Studied by Lattice Phonon Raman Spectroscopy and Statistical Mixture Analysis Method. Application to Calcium Carbonate Polymorphs during Batch Crystallization.”
• M. Mullet, F. Demoisson, B. Humbert, D. Vantelon and L. Michot, Geochim. Cosmo. Chim. Acta 71, 3257-3271 (2007) “Aqueous Cr(VI) reduction by pyrite: speciation and characterisation of the solid phases by X-ray photoelectron, Raman and X-ray absorption spectroscopies. ”
• E. Rinnert , C. Carteret, B. Humbert, et al. and L.J. Michot, J. Phys. Chem.B 109(49), 23745-23759 (2005). “Hydration of a synthetic clay with tetrahedral charges: a multidisciplinary experimental and numerical study.”
• V. Mazet, C. Carteret, D. Brie, J. Idier and B. Humbert, Chemometric and intelligent laboratory systems, 76(2), 121-133 (2005) “Background removal from spectra by designing and minimizing a non-quadratic cost function. “
• C. Eypert-Blaison, B. Humbert, L. Michot, M. Pelletier, E. Sauzeat and F. Villièras, Chem. Mater. 13 (12), 4439-4446 (2001). “Structural Role of Hydration Water in Na- and H-Magadiite :A Spectroscopic Study”.
• N. Phambu, B. Humbert and A. Burneau, Langmuir 16 (15), 6200-6207 (2000) “Relation between the infrared spectra and the lateral specific areas of gibbsite samples”
• ) J. Grausem, B. Humbert, M. Spajer, D. Courjon and A. Burneau. Burneau, J. Raman Spectrosc. 30 (9), 833-840 (1999)“Near field Raman spectroscopy.”
• H. Wilhelm, B. Humbert, M. Lelaurain and E. McRae, J. Appl. Phys.84 (12), 6552-58 (1998)“Raman spectroscopic studies on well defined carbonaceous materials of strong 2D character.”
• 6 book chapters
• Since (1992):
• 36 invited talks: 15 national and 21 international conferences,
• 100 oral conference presentations, 4 invited seminars,
• 6 (co)organisation of conferences.

CNRS Research Director

University Professor

Senior Lecturer

LRU Lecturer-Researcher

Senior Lecturer

Currently

• Lecturer (“Maître de Conférences”) in Physics, University of Nantes- Institut Universitaire de Technologie of Nantes
• Researcher within the group “Physics of Materials and Nanostructures” at the Institute of Materials Jean Rouxel – Nantes (IMN)

Qualifications

• 1992: PhD in Physics (University of Nantes, France) “”Vibrational properties of polyanilines obtained by chemical and electrochemical synthesis””.
• 1989: Master (DEA) in “Materials Science” (University of Nantes, France)

Research Themes

• Spectroscopic studies of calcium orthophosphates.
• Raman scattering and Infrared Absorption spectroscopies.
• Vibrational properties of nanostructures.

Research Community Activities / Teaching Responsibilities

• In charge of MCEMP path of department BUT ” Science et Génie des Matériaux ” – IUT of Nantes
• Member of scientific committee of Institut Universitaire de Technologie (2024-)

Publications

As of 1/2017 :

40 publications in international peer reviewed journals
9 oral conference presentations, 4 invited seminars, 1 (co)organization of conferences

CNRS Research Fellow

Position:

CNRS researcher

Qualifications:

• March 2017 Doctor of Engineering – Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
• “Molecular-Geometry Approaches to Develop Functional Fluorophores Based on Classic Aromatic Hydrocarbons” Supervisor: Gen-ichi Konishi

Previous positions:

• Apr. 2020 – Dec. 2021 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford

Inorganic Chemistry laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom
The project funded by EPSRC (UK) on “Soft chemical control to achieve new layered architectures and strongly correlated states”
Supervisor: Simon J. Clarke

• May 2017 – Mar. 2020 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Nantes Université

Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), Nantes, France
The project funded by JSPS (Japan) on “Rational design and study of layered transition metal chalcogenides with various local geometry obtained by a novel topotactic intercalation concept”
Supervisor: Laurent Cario

Main research topics:

Design & synthesis of chalcogenides, mixed-anion compounds, low-dimensional materials, quantum materials, π-conjugated systems, fluorescent dyes

Biography

Shunsuke Sasaki currently works at the Jean Rouxel Materials Institute in Nantes (IMN) as a permanent researcher affiliated to the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He earned his bachelor’s degree in polymer chemistry from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2014. He continued his studies in organic and polymeric materials at the same institute and completed his Ph.D. research on the design of fluorescent molecules in 2017, under the supervision of Dr. Gen-ichi Konishi. Afterward, he decided to shift his focus to inorganic solid-state chemistry and worked as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Nantes University under the guidance of Dr. Laurent Cario and his co-workers at IMN until 2020. He conducted another postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford with Dr. Simon J. Clarke before being recruited by CNRS in 2022. His current research focuses on developing novel low-temperature reactions that enable the tailored design of inorganic solid-state materials with exotic 2D structures.

Ongoing research projects:

French National Research Agency (ANR) project – COBEDIT
“Covalent-bond editing by topochemistry of chalcogenide materials” Role: Coordinator

Activities in the research community

International Core-to-core/ASPIRE network on mixed-anion compounds involving France (IMN, ICMCB, UCCS, ISCR), Japan (Kyoto University), UK (University of Oxford), Belgium (University of Antwerp) and Germany (RWTH Aachen).

Prizes:

2024 J. Mater Chem B Outstanding peer reviewers, Royal society of chemistry.
2023 Rising Stars in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry 2023, American Chemical Society

Main publications:

• Anionic Redox Topochemistry for Materials Design: Chalcogenides and Beyond.
  ACS Org. Inorg. Au 4, 26-40 (2024).
• Anion Redox as a Means to Derive Layered Manganese Oxychalcogenides with Exotic Intergrowth Structures.
  Nat. Commun. 14, 2917 (2023).
• Design of Metastable Oxychalcogenide Phases by Topochemical (de)intercalation of Sulfur in La2O2S2.
  Nat. Commun. 12, 3605 (2021).
• Principles of Aggregation-Induced Emission: Design of Deactivation Pathways for Advanced AIEgens and Applications.
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 9856-9867 (2020).

Orcid link: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8358-1629

Scholar.google.com link: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=gPGubGsAAAAJ&hl=en