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CEISAM Institute

Research institute in Molecular Chemistry
UMR CNRS 6230

The CEISAM Institute (Interdisciplinary Chemistry: Synthesis, Analysis, Modelling) was founded in 2008, in order to structure Nantes Molecular Chemistry (theoretical chemistry, organic / organometallic synthesis, analytical chemistry & physicochemistry).

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Clémence Queffelec awarded the ARKEMA Prize from the Academy of Sciences

Clémence Queffelec, Senior Lecturer at Nantes University, at the Laboratory “Chemistry and Interdisciplinarity: Synthesis, Analysis, Modelling” (CEISAM), has been awarded the ARKEMA Prize by the French Academy of Sciences. The prize (€25,000), created in 2021, rewards decisive scientific advances in the development, characterisation, understanding or implementation of sustainable materials, i.e. materials whose life cycle and...

Pauline CRETIN: Collaboration US2B / AMaCC platform CEISAM

Pauline CRETIN (US2B; Molecular Engineering and Glycobiology Team) has defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Ecophysiology and importance of non-cyanobacterial marine diazotrophs (NCD)” on Friday, October 24, 2025. During her three years of doctoral research, Pauline studied diazotrophy using a model of non-cyanobacterial diazotrophic (NCD) bacteria. Monitoring of nitrogenase activity was carried out at the CEISAM...

CEISAM at the 2025 Science Festival

From 3rd to 13th October, the 2025 Science Festival took place with the theme ‘Intelligence(s)’ and once again, the CEISAM laboratory was there! Yann Pellegrin, accompanied by other members of the laboratory, ran a chemistry stand at the Science Village, focusing on silly mistakes in chemistry. They also visited the paediatric ward at Nantes University...

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Our research teams

This Institute is organized into five research teams covering coherent areas of activity but which are based on different and highly complementary segments, giving rise to original transversal projects.

On the basis of fundamental and specific expertise, CEISAM is positioned in a certain number of niches of excellence at the interface with the fields of Health, Food chemistry and Materials, through privileged interactions at regional, national and international levels.


Platforms and equipment

To support our research activities, the CEISAM Institute owns many specialist equipments.

These instruments and equipment chains, sometimes intégrated into platforms, aim to synthesize, model, prepare and characterize organic or hybrid items. The European Union, the CNRS and the "Pays de la Loire" region have largely contributed to co-financing these platforms and equipments in particular in NMR, Mass Spectrometry, Molecular Modeling, Optical spectroscopies and microscopy.


Contact us

CEISAM UMR-CNRS 6230
Faculté des Sciences et Techniques
2 Rue de la Houssinière
BP 92208
44322 NANTES CEDEX 3