Marc Fontecave is a professor at the Collège de France, where he holds the Chair in the Chemistry of Biological Processes, and is a member of the Académie des Sciences. His laboratory, the Chemistry of Biological Processes Laboratory, works at the crossroads of chemistry and biology, following a multidisciplinary approach based on the methods of biochemistry, molecular and structural biology, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and on various spectroscopies. He has in particular worked on the chemistry of metals in transition: iron, cobalt and nickel, and the role that these metallic ions play in cellular life, and also on the chemistry of carbon (exploitation of carbon dioxide) and of hydrogen.
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Lucie Campos, « Life, a Model for Chemists. An Interview with Marc Fontecave »,
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, 2 June 2014.
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