Quentin Lemesre
Post Doctoral Researcher
Born in Le Mans, France, I moved to Montpellier (southern France), where I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in 2019 from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier (ENSCM). I then completed a full gap year in the medicinal chemistry laboratories of AbbVie in Ludwigshafen, Germany, where I studied widely used medicinal chemistry reactions under mechanochemical conditions.
I returned to Montpellier to complete my Master’s degree in Chemistry in 2022. My Master’s thesis focused on the synthesis and characterization of new chiral, optically active (chiroptical) molecules, primarily investigated for OLED applications.
After my Master’s degree, I joined the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Saclay (south of Paris) to pursue a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Davide Audisio. My doctoral research focused on the development of new methodologies for the efficient carbon-14 radiolabeling of complex molecules.
I am now a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Dr. Lee Cronin, working on combinatorial organic chemistry to explore chemical space. Outside the lab, I enjoy sports (basketball and bouldering), travelling, and emerging AI technologies applied to chemistry.