Prof. Dr. Victor Mougel

After a childhood spent in the beautiful village of Pesmes, Victor studied in Lyon, where he obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He had the chance during that period to discover chemistry in the laboratories of Dr Yann Bretonnière (ENS-Lyon) and Prof. David Parker (Durham University, UK).

He joined Prof. Marinella Mazzanti’s lab in CEA-Grenoble for his PhD in 2009, where he investigated the synthesis, reactivity and magnetic properties of polynuclear uranium complexes. After completing his PhD, awarded by the best PhD thesis prize of the University of Grenoble, he moved to ETH Zürich, Switzerland as a Marie Curie ETH fellow in the group of Prof. Christophe Copéret. There he had the chance to discover the beauty of Surface Organometallic Chemistry and to develop new well-defined alkene metathesis catalysts.

He came back in France in 2016 as a CNRS associate researcher at the College de France in the Laboratory of Chemistry of Biological Processes, and in December 2018 relocated to ETH Zürich as an assistant professor in Inorganic Chemistry. His current research topics are centered on the electrochemical transformation of environmentally relevant small molecules (N₂, CO₂, H₂O) using renewable sources of electricity.

Research developed in the group has been recognized with several awards, including the Ruzicka Prize, the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society, the EuChemS Lecture Award, and the Horizon Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

In addition, he has been actively involved in the establishment of young researchers networks across Europe, as a former board member of the European Young Chemists’ Network (EYCN) of EUCheMS and of the Young Network of the French Chemical Society (RJ-SCF).

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