Janine Cossy

Professor Janine Cossy, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI, Paris, France. Professor Janine Cossy graduated from the University of Reims working under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Pierre Pète. After a postdoctoral stay with Prof. Barry Trost (1980-1982) at the University of Wisconsin, she returned to Reims where she became Director of Research of the CNRS in 1990. The same year, she moved to Paris to become Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie...See more

Professor Janine Cossy, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI, Paris, France. Professor Janine Cossy graduated from the University of Reims working under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Pierre Pète. After a postdoctoral stay with Prof. Barry Trost (1980-1982) at the University of Wisconsin, she returned to Reims where she became Director of Research of the CNRS in 1990. The same year, she moved to Paris to become Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech). She has published over 450 articles and filed thirteen patents in the field of synthetic organic chemistry and natural product synthesis. She is Associate Editor at Organic Letters since 2005. Awards: CNRS Bronze Medal (1987), CNRS Silver Medal (1996), Royal Society Rosalind Franklin International Lectureship (2005), Prix Le Bel from the Société Chimique de France (2009), Usha Ranjan Ghatak Endowment Award (2015), E.C. Taylor Senior Award of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (2015), Susan P. and Barry M. Trost Award in Organic Synthesis (2016), Tarrant Distinguished Visiting Professorship of Organic Chemistry (2016). Member of the Advisory Board: Journal of Organic Chemistry (2001-2004); New Journal of Chemistry (2001-2004); Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry (2006-2009); European Journal of Organic Chemistry (2000-2010); Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters (since 2003); Letter of Organic Chemistry (since 2006); Trends in Organic Chemistry (since 2006); The open Organic Chemistry Journal (since 2007); Synthesis, Synlett and Synfact (since 2009); Arkivoc (since 2009); Heterocycles (since 2009); Mediterranean Journal of Chemistry (MedJChem) (since 2011); ISRN Organic Chemistry (since 2010); Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry (since 2011); Reports in Organic Chemistry (since 2011). See less