Florian Lhostis

After completing a preparatory course at Montpellier's Lycée Joffre, Florian Lhostis joined the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier (ENSCM) in 2018 to train as a chemical engineer. Graduating in 2021 with a specialization in inorganic materials chemistry, he completed an end-of-studies internship at Montpellier's Charles-Gerhardt Institute and CIRAD (Centre international de recherche agronomique pour le développement) on the valorization of coffee grounds into highly porous carbonaceous materials for catalysis and_CO2 capture. In October 2021, he will start a thesis at the Collège de France under the supervision of Prof. Marc Fontecave in the Chemistry of Biological Processes Laboratory on the electrocatalytic reduction of_CO2 to formic acid. This project, funded by Veolia and in collaboration with a team from CEA Saclay, also aims to couple electroreduction of_CO2 with a thermocatalytic process for converting formic acid into methanol.