Nicolas Alonso-Vante

Nicolas Alonso-Vante

Nicolas Alonso-Vante is a Chair Professor at the College of Smart Energy of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China. He earned his MS (1978 -MX), Diplôme d’études Approfondies (1979-FR), PhD (1981-FR), Docteur ès Science (1984 -FR) from the University of Strasbourg-FR. He did his postdoctoral research (2 years) in Germany supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut-Berlin, where he stayed as senior scientist till 1997. He moved to Poitiers, France as University Professor at the University of Poitiers, where he remained till 2024. He has coauthored more than 300 journal papers. His research group in Germany and France has been devoted to photoelectrocatalytic and electrocatalytic systems on supported and not supported nanostructured transition metals (based on non-precious-, and precious-metals) electrocatalysts to investigate the oxygen reduction reaction and on the bifunctional hydrogen and oxygen reactions processes.