title: Patrice Simon
text: # Patrice Simon
  
  Patrice Simon (born 1969) is a French chemist in the field of materials science and electrochemistry. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Université Paul Sabatier since 2007. His research activities are focused onto the modification of the material/electrolyte interfaces in electrodes for electrochemical energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and batteries. He is also former Director of the European Research Institute "ALISTORE ERI", and currently deputy director of the French Newtwork on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E).
  
  ## Biography
  
  Simon studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques (ENSIACET) in Toulouse, graduating with M.S. in metallurgy (1992) and Ph.D. in Materials science (1996). Thereafter he worked as assistant professor of Electrochemistry at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris, and from 2001 at the CIRIMAT laboratory of materials science, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse. He received his D.Sc. from Université Paul Sabatier in 2002 and was appointed full Professor of Materials Sciences at CIRIMAT in 2007. He was promoted as Distinguished Professor in 2014.
  
  ## Awards and honours
  
  * 2020 : member de l'European Academy Of Sciences (Europe)
  * 2019: Member of Académie des Sciences
  * 2019: Honorary professorship in Beijing University of Chemical Technology
  * 2019: Highly Cited Researcher 2019
  * 2019: Member of Academia Europaea
  * 2019: Grand Prix Pierre Süe
  * 2018: Member of the French Academy of Technologies
  * 2018: Clarivate Citation Laureates
  * 2018: Highly Cited Researcher 2018
  * 2018: Brian Conway Award of the International Society of Electrochemistry
  * 2017: Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France
  * 2016: Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry
  * 2016: Highly Cited Researcher 2016
  * 2016: Lee Hsun Lecture Award on Materials Science, Chinese Academy of Science
  * 2016: Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry
  * 2015: Silver Medal of the CNRS
  * 2015: RUSNANOPRIZE Prize on Nanotechnologies
  * 2015: Charles Eichner Medal from French Materials and Metallurgy Society (SF2M)
  * 2012: European Research Council Advanced Grant
  * 2012: Excellence Chair of the Airbus group Fondation
  * 2009: Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry
  * 2007: Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France
  