Pascal DE SAINTE CLAIRE

Roles & Affiliations: Pascal DE SAINTE CLAIRE is a Researcher at the Clermont-Ferrand Institute of Chemistry (ICCF), part of the University of Clermont Auvergne. He has held roles including Lecturer at the University of Provence (2002–2010) and ATER at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (1997). He is a member of the Photochemistry, Reactivity and Environment (PRE) research theme within ICCF UMR CNRS 6296.

Educations:

• 1993: Engineering diploma from École Centrale de Lyon (ESCIL/CPE).
• 1996: Ph.D. in theoretical physical chemistry (Detroit, USA), focusing on molecular dynamics and theoretical kinetics.

Research Interests: His work centers on the theoretical and computational modeling of environmental photochemical processes, including:

• Role of sunlight in degrading organic pollutants.
• Ab initio calculations (CASSCF, TD-DFT) for excited-state mechanisms.
• Partition functions of internal rotators in molecular systems.

Grants & Labs: Active in the Macromolecular Photochemistry Team (2002–2010) and the current Photochemistry Team, focusing on pollutant degradation mechanisms. No specific grants or labs are explicitly mentioned.