Clotilde POLICAR
Metals in Biology and Redox Homeostasis
Clotilde POLICAR
Professor
Trained in organic, inorganic and physical chemistry, Clotilde Policar specialized in bio-inorganic chemistry. Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure—Paris Sciences et Lettres, since 2008, she has set up a group in bioinorganic chemistry and inorganic biological and cellular chemistry that works on the study of inorganic compounds in biological environments.
She is currently a member of the international society in biological inorganic chemistry SBIC and serves currently as its past president. She is a member of the Société Chimique de France.
She is currently the dean of sciences education at ENS-PSL.
Research Topics
Endogenous metals imaging in biological processes
While present at relatively low concentrations compared to organic species, endogenous metals are in…
Bio-active metal complexes and catalysis
We design metal-complexes as mimics of antioxidant metalloenzymes (catalases, superoxide dismutases)…
Metal-based probes
Re(CO)3 complexes are developed as multimodal probes to correlate fluorescence, IR-imaging and X-flu…