Tribute to Jean-Marc Millet

It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of our colleague Jean-Marc Millet on 22 August in his 67th year.
Jean Marc joined the laboratory in 1987 and retired last October. He was internationally recognised in the field of partial oxidation of alkanes and was an expert in Mössbauer spectroscopy. In fact, a special issue of Applied Catalysis is dedicated to him, tracing his entire career (see the dedicated article here).
He was a talented scientist and, as a distinguished researcher, he was always very active and passionate. We miss him…
Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

Extract from his biography:
‘Throughout his career he has (co)directed 27 doctoral theses and advised more than 20 post-doctoral researchers in the field of catalysis, with several of his former students now occupying leading academic and industrial positions in France and abroad. Jean-Marc Millet has established numerous international collaborations and partnership programmes with laboratories in various countries, including Algeria, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, the USA and Vietnam. He has led 28 collaborative research projects, most of them funded by chemical companies such as UOP, RHONE-POULENC, ATOFINA, ELF-ATOCHEM, ARKEMA, ADISSEO and ALDERYS. His research work has resulted in more than 190 journal articles, 9 book chapters and 16 patents. Jean-Marc’s main research objective during his career at CNRS has been to develop new oxidation catalysts for industrial processes via a fundamental approach to the catalytic site, including its determination, characterisation and modelling. This objective has recently been extended to dehydration catalysts and bifunctional systems for cascade oxidation and dehydration reactions with the aim of obtaining new organic compounds from biomass for the synthesis of major chemical intermediates.’