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Education

     • Undergraduate studies: Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (physics)
     • Agrégation de Physique (1989)
     • Ph.D in theoretical physics (dec.1994), UC Berkeley, California, USA (advisor: S.G. Louie).
                 Title: Quasiparticle energy studies of bulk semiconductors, surfaces and nanotubes.
     • Postdoctoral stay (1995-1996), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (advisor: R. Car).

Professional experience

     • Move to Institut Néel, Grenoble, France (2008-)
     • Professor (PCC), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (2006-2009)
     • CNRS research director (2005-)
     • Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) (23/01/2001)
     • CNRS associate researcher (1996-2005) at LPMCN, Lyon, France.

Main administrative duties

     • Deputy director, Condensed Matter and Low Temperature physics department (MCBT), Néel Institute (2016-2020)
     • CNRS national committee (section 05) (2012-2016)
     • Head national Research group (GDR) CoDFT (2010-2014)
     • Secretary, French physical society, condensed matter division (2005-2008)

Prizes

     • CNRS silver medal 2008
     • Bull-Fourier prize 2014

Publications

Over 165 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Science, Nature (2), Nature Materials, Review of Modern Physics, Chemical Society Reviews, Physical Review Letters (25), etc. gathering above 18000 citations. Nine book chapters. H factor=65 (WOS). Below are 10 selected publications:

     • Superconductivity in doped cubic silicon, E. Bustarret, T. Mercenat, P. Achatz, J. Kacmarcik, F. Levy, A. Huxley, E. Bourgeois, X. Blase, J. Boulmer, Nature (London) 444, 465-468 (2006).
     • Electronic and transport properties of nanotubes, J.-C. Charlier, X. Blase, S. Roche, Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 677 (2007).
     • Charge transport in chemically doped 2D graphene, A. Lherbier, X. Blase, Y.-M. Niquet, S. Roche, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036808 (2008).
     • Superconducting Group IV Semiconductors, X. Blase, E. Bustarret, C. Chapelier, T. Klein, C. Marcenat, Nature Materials 8, 375-382 (2009).
     • First-principles GW calculations for fullerenes, porphyrins, phtalocyanine, and other molecules of interest for organic photovoltaic applications, X. Blase, C. Attaccalite, V. Olevano, Phys. Rev. B 83, 115103 (2011).
     • Short-range to long-range charge-transfer excitations in the zincbacteriochlorinbacteriochlorin complex: A Bethe-Salpeter study, I. Duchemin, T. Deutsch, X. Blase, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 167801 (2012).
     • Giant osmotic energy conversion measured in a single transmembrane boron nitride nanotubes, A. Siria, P. Poncharal, A.-L. Bianca, R. Fulcrand, X. Blase, S. Purcell, L. Bocquet, Nature 494, 455 (2013).
     • Combining the Many-Body GW Formalism with Classical Polarizable Models: Insights on the Electronic Structure of Molecular Solids, J. Li, G. D'Avino, I. Duchemin, D. Beljonne, and X. Blase, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 2814 (2016).
     • Correlated electron-hole mechanism for molecular doping in organic semiconductors, J. Li, G. D'Avino, A. Pershin, D. Jacquemin, I. Duchemin, D. Beljonne, X. Blase, Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 025602 (2017).
     • The Bethe-Salpeter Formalism with Polarisable Continuum Embedding: Reconciling Linear-Response and State-Specific Features, Ivan Duchemin, Ciro Achille Guido, Denis Jacquemin and Xavier Blase, Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 4430.