Scientific research experience
| 2017 - present | Lecturer (maître de conférence) in the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Microbiology for the Materials and Environment (LCPME) , in the Chemistry and Spectrochemistry of Interfaces. Teaching in the “Institut Universitaire Technologique” Nancy-Brabois in the Chemical engineering and Biological engineering in the field of health departments. Research interests include spectroscopy of layered hydroxides and reactivity of these materials for environnemental purposes |
| Nancy, France | |
| 2015 - 2017 | Post-doc in the Catalan Institute of Chemical Research (ICIQ), for mixed experimental-theoretical work in the groups of Núria Lopez (DFT modelling) and Atsushi Urakawa (Spectroscopy). Study of the adsorption of CO on metal catalysts |
| Tarragona, Spain |  |
| 2013 - 2015 | Post-doc in the Fritz-Haber Institut (Berlin, Germany) in the Magnetic Resonance group (chemical physics department). Study of paramagnetic defects in supported magnesium oxide thin films with electron spin resonance |
| Berlin, Germany |  |
| 2009 - 2012 | PhD in the Laboratory of Surface Reactivity (LRS, French website, Paris) under the supervision of Hélène Pernot. Study of the parameters governing the reactivity of weak inorganic bases ; toward the catalysis of the transesterification reaction. |
| Paris, France |  |
| 2009 | M2 (2nd year MSc) internship in the Laboratory of Surface Reactivity (5 months). Functionalization of magnesium and zinc oxide by copper and gold nano-particles. |
| Paris, France |  |
| 2007 | M1 (1st year MSc) internship in the Zhejiang University-Ecole Normale Supérieure Joint Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry (Hangzhou, China) (5 months). Design and synthesis of some antitumoral prodrugs derived from tirapazamine |
Articles published
Longfei Lin, Damien Cornu, Maya Mounir Daou, Cyril Domingos, Virginie Herledan, Jean-Marc Krafft, Guillaume Laugel, Yannick Millot and Hélène Lauron-Pernot, Role of Water on the Activity of Magnesium Silicate for Transesterification Reactions,
Chem. Cat. Chem, doi:10.1002/cctc.201700139
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Damien Cornu, Longfei Lin, Maya Mounir Daou, Maguy Jaber, Jean-Marc Krafft, Virginie Herledan, Guillaume Laugel, Yannick Millot, and Hélène Lauron-Pernot, Influence of acid–base properties of Mg-based catalysts on transesterification: role of magnesium silicate hydrate formation,
Catal. Sci. and Tech., doi:10.1039/C6CY02604D
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Damien Cornu, Jan Rocker, Anastasia Gonchar, Thomas Risse, and Hans-Joachim Freund, Location of Trapped Electron Centers in the Bulk of Epitaxial MgO(001) Films Grown on Mo(001) Using in situ W-band Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy,
Phys. Rev. Lett., doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.016801
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Damien Cornu, Hazar Guesmi, Guillaume Laugel, Jean-Marc Krafft and Hélène Pernot, On the relationship between the basicity of a surface and its ability to catalyze transesterification in liquid and gas phases: the case of MgO,
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., doi:10.1039/C5CP00217F
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J. Rocker, D. Cornu, E. Kieseritzky, A. Seiler, O. Bondarchuk, W. Hänsel-Ziegler, T. Risse, H.-J. Freund, High field electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. A multipurpose machine to study paramagnetic species on well defined single crystal surfaces,
Rev. Sci. Instrum., doi:10.1063/1.4893729
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D. Cornu, H. Petitjean, G. Costentin, H. Guesmi, J.-M. Krafft, H. Lauron-Pernot, Influence of natural adsorbates of magnesium oxide on its reactivity in basic catalysis,
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., doi:10.1039/c3cp53624f
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D. Cornu, H. Guesmi, J.-M. Krafft, H. Lauron-Pernot, Lewis acido-basic interactions between CO2 and MgO surface : DFT and DRIFT approches,
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, doi:10.1021/jp211171t
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Thesis
My thesis is avaible on this website. The title was: “study of the parameters governing the reactivity of weak inorganic bases. Toward the transesterification reaction”
Review
Reviewer for Applied Catalyis A (1 review), Adsorption Science and Technology (1 review). See my Publons profile.
Oral in national congress
May 2012 “Mechanisms of the transesterification reaction in gas and liquid phase” during the congress of the French association for catalysis (GECat).
Other speeches
7 April 2011 during the French Association of the Adsorption (AFA, French website). Slides avaible online (French).
19 May 2011 during the “Journées de la modélisation à Paris” (French website) in Paris.
29 June 2011 during the meeting of the Paris-Centre Materials Institute (IMPC, French website)
Intership supervision
Julien (4 weeks, undergrad): zinc hydroxynitrates : heterogeneous catalysis of the transesterification reaction
Dimitri (3 months, master): supported zinc catalysts for transesterification
David (4 weeks, undergrad): study of a model transesterification reaction by magnesium silicate and magnesium carbonate
Estelle (3 weeks, undergrad): kinetics and modelling for a model transesterification reaction
Hocine (2 months, HND): liquid phase transesterification
Other
Organisation of seminars for grad students (Paris-Centre Materials Institute), trainer for the XRD equipment. Member of the organizing comittee of the Young Researcher Meeting of the ETSF (https://yrm2017.github.io/) in May 2017, in Tarragona.