Sébastien Noël was born in Mulhouse (France) in 1980. He graduated from the « Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux de Strasbourg » (ECPM) in 2004. He received his Ph. D. degree in 2007 from the University of Lyon 1 under the supervision of Dr. C. Pinel and Dr. L. Djakovitch at IRCELyon. His work focused on the synthesis of optically active bifunctionnal ligands for asymmetric hydrogenation in liquid phase. In 2007-2008, under the direction of Dr. M. Besson (IRCELyon), he studied glycerol hydrogenolysis in liquid phase using heterogeneous catalysts. In 2008-2009, as a postdoctoral fellow, he worked with Professor E. Heeres and Professor J. de Vries at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), developing a caprolactam synthesis from a biorenewable resource. He then worked with Dr. I. Bonnamour, Dr. M. Taoufik and Dr. U. Darbost on the preparation and immobilization of Calixarene-based copper catalysts at the University of Lyon 1. He joined Professor Monflier‘s team in 2010 as a non-permanent teacher and researcher, working on the preparation of aqueous metallic nanoparticles for the hydrogenation of furan-derived compounds. He became « Maître de Conférences » at the University of Artois in december 2011. His works focus on the synthesis and characterization of metallic nanoparticles dispersed in aqueous medium and/or their immobilization and containment into organic or inorganic supports. These materials are evaluated in catalytic reduction reactions in liquid phase.