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).
Latest News
Tribute to Jean-Nicolas DUMEZ
It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Jean-Nicolas Dumez on August 18, 2025. Aged 41, he had been a researcher at the CNRS since 2013 and joined CEISAM five years later. Jean-Nicolas Dumez, studented at the ENS in Lyon from 2004 to 2008 and got the « agrégation » physical sciences, before...
Label « CNRS Platform » for CHEM-Symbiose platform
The CHEM-Symbiose platform is dedicated to the custom synthesis of small molecules. Since 2013, CHEM-Symbiose has applied its expertise for numerous academic partners through two main activities : service offers and research collaborations. Based in the CEISAM laboratory (UMR6230) at Nantes University, CHEM-Symbiose is labeled by IBiSA (Scientific Interest Group), the Biogenouest platform network, and...
Estelle LEBEGUE award winner Fulbright 2025-2026
Estelle Lebègue has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright scholarship from the Franco-American Commission, in the category Chercheur National, to fund her mobility to the US (https://fulbright-france.org/fr/laureats-0). Her TOPSEE research project, which she will develop at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), in the group of Prof. Lior Sepunaru from March 17 to June...
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.
