Nicolas studied chemistry in Strasbourg where he obtained an engineer diploma in 2002 at ECPM and then a Master’s degree in organic chemistry in the research group of Prof. D. Uguen. He achieved a Ph.D. in 2007 at ICSN (Gif-sur-Yvette) under the supervision of Prof. J.-M. Campagne. His Ph.D. work was about the total synthesis of dolastatin 14, a macrocyclic depsipeptide from marine origin with potent antiproliferative properties. In 2009, to achieve a master in environment and health management in Montpellier, he worked for 10 months in consultancy about the REACH regulation. In 2010, he joined CNRS as engineer and carried out expertise and training for the Chemical Risk Prevention Unit in Gif-sur-Yvette. In 2012 he went to Nancy in the group of Prof. Y. Fort and made syntheses of biomolecules for medical imaging applications (PET scan). In june 2015, he arrived in the Green Chemistry and Enabling Technologies team where he is developing eco-friendly methods for the synthesis of biomolecules, in particular calling on mechanochemistry.