# Sustainable chemistry and perfumery - SFP Digital Conference June 17, 2021

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Sylvain Antoniotti is Director of Research at the CNRS and head of a sustainable chemistry research group at the Institut de Chimie de Nice (CNRS-Université Côte d'Azur joint research unit). Sylvain Antoniotti studied life sciences and molecular chemistry, obtaining a DEA (Diplôme d'études approfondies) in 2003 after a thesis on catalytic synthesis methodology.s a thesis on catalytic synthesis methodology applied to the synthesis of odorant molecules (diketones, furanones, pyrazines). After a post-doctoral stay at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY, USA) to work on biocatalysis and phenolic derivatives, he joined the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris as a temporary teaching and research associate, and contributed to the development of catalysis using gold derivatives, which is now an intense area of research. In 2005, he joined the CNRS as a research fellow in the laboratory that later became the Institut de Chimie de Nice. He obtained his HDR (Habilitation à diriger les recherches) in 2008, founded his independent research group in 2012 and was promoted to Directeur de Recherche in 2017. Since then, he has led three research themes with sustainable chemistry and odorant molecules as their backdrop. One focuses on multicatalysis and the development of new approaches to the synthesis of complex molecules, the other on the applications of biocatalysis to the of biocatalysis to the production of innovative fragrance ingredients, and the last on the analysis of the quality and authenticity of complex natural blends for perfumery. He is the author of over 75 publications, 4 patents and dozens of conferences in France and abroad. In 2016, he was elected Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ERINI platform in Grasse, and in 2017 he initiated the creation of the Centre de créativitéand Innovation in Odorant Sciences of the IDEX ^UCAJEDI, which will become 2IP Arômes Parfums Cosmétiques in 2020 and the Campus des métiers et des qualifications of the same name in 2018.