Hervé Cottet
Professor in Analytical Chemistry

Personal

Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron, UMR 5247,
CNRS Pôle Chimie Balard Recherche,
1919 route de Mende, F-34293 Montpellier cedex 5
Phone: + 33 4 48 79 21 96
e-mail: herve.cottet@umontpellier.fr

born December 7, 1972, Metz, FR
French nationality
married, three children

Research experiences and positions

Sept. 2007 – Present	Professor (Classe Exceptionnelle since Dec. 2016: éch. 2 since 2021) at the University of Montpellier (Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Montpellier, Chemistry Department) Research at the Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron, UMR CNRS 5247, University of Montpellier, CNRS Head of the Organisation Biomoléculaire Department (IBMM) since March 2012.
Sept. 2000 – Aug. 2007	Assistant Professor at University of Montpellier 2 (Maître de Conférence, Polytech’ Montpellier)
Sept. 1999 – Aug. 2000	Post-doctoral position. University of Eindhoven (TUE), NL. Laboratory of Instrumental Analysis (Prof. C. Cramers and Dr. H. Claessens).
1996–1999	PhD thesis at the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP, UMR CNRS 7575)

Education and degrees

Jan. 2006	Habilitation (HDR), University of Montpellier 2
1996–1999	PhD thesis at the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP ChimieParisTech, CNRS UMR 7575) supervised by Prof. P. Gareil
1992–1996	École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech). DEA (master degree) in Analytical Chemistry (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6)

Research Interests

Electrokinetic separation techniques
Taylor Dispersion Analysis (…want to know more about TDA? see there)

Study of biomolecule interactions (stoichiometry, affinity constants)
Characterization of proteins, biopolymers, polyelectrolytes and nanoparticles
Characterization of vaccines, antigens and mRNA LNP

Electrophoretic mobility modelling
Capillary coatings for protein analysis in CE and CE-MS
Dendrigraft Poly-L-lysine

Awards

SCIEX Microscale Separations Innovation Medal Award, 2024. (read more…)

Awardee 2016 of the French Scholar Series (Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Frenh Consulate Vancouver)

Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), 2011–2016. (read more…)

Award “Chercheur d’Avenir”, Région Languedoc-Roussillon, 2010–2013.

Award from the French Chemical Society (Analytical Chemistry Division), 2006.

Lauréat ACI jeunes chercheurs (French National Research Agency), 2004–2008.

Teaching

Separation Sciences: chromatography, capillary electrophoresis (Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Montpellier, Chemistry Department).

Chemometrics (Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Montpellier, Chemistry Department).

Biopolymers (Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Montpellier, Chemistry Department).

Characterization of polymers by separation techniques (Polytech'Montpellier), 2006–2009.

Physical-chemistry of polymers (Polytech'Montpellier), 2000–2007.