Bernadette Charleux


Bernadette Charleux is a French polymer chemist. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France since 2009. Since 2012, she is the Deputy Vice-President of Research and Development at Saint-Gobain.

Scientific work

Bernadette Charleux first worked on emulsion polymerization, which led to the creation of new materials : functional latexes, amphiphilic copolymers, etc… before turning to pioneering research on Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization in aqueous media. More recently, she has worked on the creation of nano-objects via the self-assembly of macromolecules.
This work has led to numerous patents.

Prizes and distinctions