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Claude
Lévy-Clément
Emeritus Research Director, CNRS France |
Claude Lévy-Clément has been a Director of Research at CNRS since 1989. She received her master degree in Solid State Chemistry in 1967 at the University of Paris XI, Orsay and the same year became a Researcher at CNRS. She completed her Doctorat es Sciences in 1974 on the topic, «New metastable double oxides of tetravalent lead and cadmium or calcium”. She was visiting researcher at Ames Laboratory, Iowa (USA) in 1981 and since then has made numerous research stays in renowned Laboratories in Europe, USA-Canada and Asia.
Her main research interests are synthesis of nanostructured semiconductor thin films by electrochemical deposition for innovative solar cells, (photo)electrochemistry of semiconductors, photovoltaic solar cells (silicon-texturization and antireflective coating-, inorganic semiconductor sensitized nanostructured solar cells), nanoporous silicon, nanowire arrays of silicon and ZnO, layered chalcogenide metal transition compounds (inorganic fullerenes and nanotubes), and remediation of pollutants in industrial polluted waters using diamond electrodes.
She has performed her research at several laboratories from University of Paris XI (Faculty of Orsay) to University of Paris V (Faculty of Pharmacology, Paris), and at Meudon-CNRS Campus where in 1988 she became the scientific leader of the Semiconductor Electrochemistry and Nanomaterials Team. In 1999, she moved with her team to Thiais-CNRS Campus (Institut de Chimie et Matériaux Paris-Est, Thiais), where currently she is Emeritus Research Director.
She has contributed to more than 250 papers published in international journals, chapters in 13 books, 9 patents, over 60 invited lectures at International Conferences. She has organized or co-organized 14 National and International Conferences and has been a partner in numerous International, European and French projects. She is an editorial board member of several international Journals and has been invited as a scientific expert in the fields of Energy, Solar Hydrogen and Photovoltaic in French, European and USA panels.