Bruno Robert (b. 1957) graduated in theoretical physics at the University Pierre
et Marie Curie (Paris 6). After a PhD in Natural Sciences and a post-doctoral stay
at the Department of Chemistry of Harvard University, he developed a team on
photosynthetic light-harvesting and primary charge separation processes at the
CEA Saclay, France. His group developed a series of advanced spectroscopic
methods to study the early steps of the photosynthetic process. He is the author
of about 150 papers (h factor 39).
Presently President of the French Biophysical Society, Counsellor of the
International Carotenoid Society since 2007, Professor of Physics at the Vrije Univerteit Amsterdam,
Coordinator of the Resarch on Integrative Structural Biology in the Paris area; and Coordinator of the
European research on artificial photosynthesis, he was in 2011 laureate of an ERC advanced grant in
physics.