Personal informations

Professional Address :

 Physico-Chimie des Processus de Combustion et de l’Atmosphère PC2A

 Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille

 Cité Scientifique, Bât. C11

  59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, FRANCE

Phone : ++33.(0)3.20.33.72.66

Fax : ++33.(0)3.20.43.69.77

E-mail : christa.fittschen@univ-lille1.fr

»1986: Master in Chemistry at the University of Göttingen, Germany: “X-ray Structure Determination of Gold- and Silver Complexes”

»1989: PhD (Dr. rer. Nat.) at the University of Göttingen, Germany: “Shock tube investigation on the Oxidation and Decomposition of Benzyl Radicals”

Professional experience

»Since 1992: Permanent Resercher at CNRS, working at University of Lille on Kinetics of Elementary Reaction using Laser based techniques, Research Director since 2008

»1991 – 1992 :  Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Lille, working on Autoignition Phenomena using a Rapid Compression Machine, with Prof. L Sochet

»1989 – 1991 : Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, working on Heterogeneous Reactions related to stratospheric Ozone Depletion, with Prof. D. Golden

»1986 – 1989 : Research Assistant at the Institut für Physikalische Chemie at the University of Göttingen , Germany, with Prof. J. Troe

»1985 –  1986 : Research Assistant at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Göttingen, Germany, with Prof. G. M. Sheldrick

Professional
activities

»Author or Co-author of 49 peer-reviewed publication in international journals

»Coordinator of a Marie-Curie Early Stage Training Site (MEST-CT-2005-020659)

»Advisor of 10 PhD students

»Initiator of several international collaborations with Germany, Hungary, United States, Japan

»Reviewer for several international journals

Languages

»German native