Professor Jean-François Lutz

Mr Lutz is a specialist in macromolecular chemistry and works mainly in the field of sequence-controlled polymers. His recent work focuses on the development of synthetic polymers for digital information storage. He is also studying the use of these polymers in xenobiology. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications and has twice been awarded grants by the European Research Council (ERC). Since 2015, he has been listed among the world's most influential researchers by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Highly Cited Researchers.

He obtained his PhD in chemistry from the University of Montpellier and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski's laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. From 2003 to 2010, he worked as a researcher for the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Potsdam, Germany, before being recruited as Director of Research at the CNRS in 2010. From 2010 to 2022, he headed the Precision Macromolecular Chemistry team at the Charles Sadron Institute in Strasbourg. In December 2022, he joined the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering to head the Informational Macromolecules Chemistry team. Since January 2021, he has been editor-in-chief of the journal Progress in Polymer Science, and has held the position of editor-in-chief since January 2022.

He received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2018 and the Langevin Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 2024.