Organizing Committee Member
Jacques DESBRIERES
Professor
University of Pau and Pays Adour
France
Biography
Jacques DESBRIERES is Professor at University of Pau and Pays Adour in France. Engineer for National School of Chemistry in Paris (in 1978) and Doctor-Engineer at Grenoble University (in 1980) he worked during 10 years in Dowell Schlumberger, a service company for oil-well treatments. Then he joined Grenoble University in 1980 as an Associate Professor and then University of Pau and Pays Adour in 2004 as Professor. In 2009 He received the Doctor Honoris Causa Diploma of Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi†in Iasi (Romania) for his contribution to natural polymers science.
Research Area
His research domains are mainly the controlled chemical modification of polysaccharides, the structure-properties relations, their specific functional properties (rheology, interfacial, interactions…) and their applications (food, cosmetics, environment, biomedical…).