Title: Inorganic, hybridized and living macrocellular foams:

Biography: Professor Rénal Backov obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Montpellier II, France. After being an associate researcher at the University of Florida (Gainesville, USA), to address inorganic chemistry, he was hired as associated Professor at the University of Bordeaux (France) in 2001 while being full Professor since 2010. He has currently invited professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge USA). With more than 140 articles, 35 patents and 380 contributed papers, his field of research encompasses the domains of energy conversion (hydrogen storage, batteries, biofuel cells), drug delivery, sensors, heterogeneous catalysis (enzymatic, metallic, bacteriologic), photocatalysis, photonics, and beyond.