Régis Réau is R&D Scientific Director of the Air Liquide Group, for which he was appointedSenior Fellow in 2018. Prior to this, he was a researcher at the CNRS, professor of chemistry at the University of Rennes 1, scientific expert in chemistry for the French Ministry of Research, and director of the CNRS-Université internationale de Zhengzhou (China) "Matériaux organophosphorés fonctionnels" laboratory. In 2011, Régis Réau joined the CNRS in Paris as Director of the Institute of Chemistry.
He holds an honorary doctorate from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and was awarded a Royal Society of Chemistry Award in 2007. Régis is the author of 162 publications, including 19 patents and 5 book chapters.