François Couty

François Couty earned his PhD at the University Paris VI in 1991, and his habilitation degree in 1999. Since 2001, he is full Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Versailles (France). He is currently the head of the “Institut Lavoisier de Versailles” a public laboratory administrated by the CNRS and the University of Versailles. He has published more than 135 scientific papers in the field of heterocyclic chemistry, total synthesis, and reactivity in organic chemistry.