Marc Fontecave is Professor at the Collège de France, holds the Chemistry of Biological Processes Chair, and is a member of the Academy of Sciences. His laboratory—the Laboratory of Chemistry of Biological Processes—works at the interface between chemistry and biology, relying in a multidisciplinary way on the methods of biochemistry, molecular and structural biology, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and of spectroscopies. His work focuses on the chemistry of transition metals, iron, cobalt, nickel, and on the role played by these metal ions in cellular life, as well as on carbon chemistry (carbon dioxide recovery) and hydrogen .
Read an interview with him in La Vie des Idées.