Clément Sanchez is Director of Research at the French  Council Research (CNRS) and Director of The “Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris” at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie of Paris. He is head of the nanochemistry division in the Cnano Ile de France. He received an engineer degree from l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris in 1978 and a “thèse d'état” (PhD) in physical chemistry from the University of Paris VI in 1981. He did a post-doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently performing research at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris. He was professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau) during 1991-2003. He currently leads a research group of ten scientists and he is specialised in the field of nanochemistry and physical properties of nanostructured porous and non-porous transition metal oxide based gels and porous and non-porous hybrid organic inorganic materials shaped as monolith, microspheres and films. He received the french IBM premium for materials science in 1988 and was a recipient of the Société Chimique de France premium solid state chemistry in 1994. He was the recipient of the Silver Medal of the CNRS for chemistry in 1995 and he also received the premium of the French Academy of Sciences for Application of Science to Industry in 2000.He received recently two internatianl awrds: The 2007 Catalan-Sabatier prize from the Royal Spanish Chemical Society and the 2008 Alexander von Humbolt Award. He was organiser of several international meetings associated to the field of soft-chemistry, hybrid materials and related bio-aspects.