Jacques Desbrières

Responsabilités

2015- 2018 : Member of Scientific Council of National Institute of Chemistry (CNRS, France)

2013- 2018 : Vice-Director of Faculty of Sciences of Pau (University of Pau)

2006-2008 :  Head of Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Polymers

2004 :            Head of Laboratory of Research on Polymeric Materials

I was secretary of European Chitin Science Board (2013-2015) and I was appointed in 2011 Member of "Committee on Chemistry and Industry" de l'IUPAC as national representative.

I am expert for National Research Agency and Research, University Evaluation Agency on chemistry and polymer science, Czech Science Foundation, Romanian Innovative Council and Research Council of Quebec for evaluation of research projects.

In 2004 I had the responsibility of UPPA Mat which is a structure from the university to develop the relations between companies and university through technical studies.

Organisation de congrès

I was member of the organisation or scientific committee of scientific congresses:

• GFP 94 in Grenoble (French Group on Polymers)
• 35^th Annual meeting of French Group of Rheology, (Grenoble, France, 2000)
• 1^st International Workshop on “Sensorial properties of Materials” (Pau, France 2004)
• Young Polymer Researchers Meeting (Anglet, France, 2006).
• Franco-Romanian Congress on Polymers (Alba Iulia, Romania, August 2009)
• Franco-Romanian Congress on Polymers (Douai, France, September 2011)
• International Conference on Chitin and Chitosan, EUCHIS 2013 (Porto, Portugal)
• International Conference on "Chemical Engineering and Materials Science" (Member of Scientific Committee, 5-17 Mars 2014, Venice, Italy)
• Franco-Romanian Congress on Polymers (Member of Scientific Committee, Pitesti, Romania, August 2014)
• International Conference on Chitin and Chitosan, EUCHIS 2015 and ICCC15, (Member of Scientific Committee, Münster, Germany, September 2015)
• XII^nd Franco-Romanian Congress on Polymers (Member of Scientific Committee, Sophia-Antipolis, France, 5-7 September 2016)
• ICNP 2017, 5^th International Conference on Natural Polymers, BioPolymers, Biomaterials (Member of Scientific Committee, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7-9 June 2017)
• "3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Polymer Chemistry" (Member of Organization committee, Vienne, Austria, 26-28 March 2018)
• BIOMATSEN 2019, "4th International Congress on Biomateials and Biosensors" (Member of scientifi Committee, Oludeniz, Turkey, 12-18 May 2019)

Compétences

Natural polymers and their physico-chemistry (rheology, interfacial properties, interactions…)

Chemical modifications of polysaccharides

Environment-friendly processes for chemical modification of polysaccharides

Structure-properties relations

Specific applications

Thèmes de recherche

Analysis and physico-chemistry of polysaccharides and their derivatives

I initiated new developments in the elaboration of new polymeric systems with specific rheological, tensioactive, cosmetic or biomedical properties. This concerns specifically natural based systems (cellulose and derivatives, chitosan, starch derivatives, xanthan, gellan, hyaluronate and others).

More especially during the few last years I worked on the elaboration of hydrogels or microparticles based on polysaccharides (or derivatives from chemical modification) and their ability to incorporate and release active matter.

New processes were elaborated for chemically modifying the polysaccharides and the use of microwaves technology is extended.

Encadrement

I was supervisor (or co-supervisor) of 25 PhD thesis.

Publications