Dr. Mihail Barboiu
University of Montpellier, France

KM17Artificial Water Channels – Toward Biomimetic Membranes for Desalination


Track:  Membranes
Presentation: Friday, October 7, 11:00 am - 11:30 am

Mihail Barboiu graduated from the University Politehnica of Bucharest and received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Montpellier before spending 2 years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. He is CNRS Research Leader at the Institut Europeen des Membranes in Montpellier and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. Since 2014 he is also Extraordinary Professor in Sun-Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. A major focus of his research is Dynamic Constitutional Chemistry toward Dynamic Interactive Systems: adaptive biomimetic membranes, delivery devices etc. Author of more than 215 scientific publications, 3 books and 20 chapters and 310 conferences and lectures, Dr Barboiu has received in 2004 the EURYI Award in Chemistry and in 2015 the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award for the development of Artificial Water Channels.