Chauvet, Adrien, Dr

Dr Adrien Chauvet

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry

a.chauvet@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 9414

C94, Dainton Building

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Dr Adrien Chauvet
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
C94
Dainton Building
13 Brook Hill
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Adrien is a multidisciplinary spectroscopist. His specialisation is in ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy. Adrien’s research is mainly based in ��߲ݴ�ý’s Lord Porter Laboratory; with projects in collaboration with the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and the School of Biosciences. And in his research, Adrien is dedicated to applying spectroscopy in innovative ways to tackle today’s grant challenges.

One of these grand challenges is the development of renewable energies. And beyond tackling it in his own lab, Adrien also joined the cross-faculty Energy Institute, as a management board member since 2023 as the ED&I lead, to engage and help fellow energy-dedicated ECRs develop their own research and careers.

Adrien is now establishing Hi-PLUS: Hi-Performance Lasers for Ultrafast Spectroscopy; a £1.4M EPSRC-funded user-base facility dedicated to the ultrafast characterisation of functional materials. This state-of-the-art facility is expected to be a regional hub for ultrafast science, with world-leading capabilities and direct links to national facilities.

Adrien holds a BSc in Material Sciences (2005) from the university of Strasbourg, France, as well as a Master (2008) and PhD (2012) in Biophysics from Purdue University, USA, under Prof. Sergei Savikhin’s supervision. He then moved to Switzerland in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) under a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Majed Chergui followed by a senior postdoctoral position at the University of Geneva (2015) with Prof. Jean-Pierre Wolf. He moved to ��߲ݴ�ý in 2016 as a lecturer of Physical Chemistry and was appointed senior lecturer in 2024.

Research interests

Adrien’s research is dedicated to answering society’s most pressing needs. The goal is to benefit from the fundamental knowledge of the materials intrinsic electronic and nuclear behaviour to inform the development of novel materials that are better suited to specific practical applications. Adrien is actively involved in various projects, reflective of his multidisciplinary approach to science:

Development of novel catalysts for green hydrogen production via hydrolysis as well as novel catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells
Development of sensors for soil-health analysis to achieve precision farming
Development of sensors to monitor greenhouse gas emission to inform their reduction
Characterisation of the natural elements involved in plant’s photosynthesis as well as their artificial counterparts for artificial photosynthesis
Characterisation of thin-film metal-oxides with antibacterial properties
Characterisation of novel anti-cancer agent for drug development
Crop-health monitoring via optical coherence tomography

Adrien is also invested in the field of Science & Religion. He benefits from his formal and informal religious and scientific education to explore the interplay between religion and the sciences. Acquainted of both systems of knowledge, he publishes and routinely engages the public on that topic.

Publications

Books

Chauvet A (2024) Les miracles du Coran : de l’analyse scientifiques à l’élévation spirituelle. France: Maison Ennour.
Chauvet A (2023) Scientifically Religious Using Science to Rationalize Faith.
Chauvet A (2020) De la science à la croyance : Raffermir sa foi par une approche scientifique. Paris: Maison Ennour.
Chauvet A (2019) De la science à la croyance: Raffermir sa foi par une approche scientifique. Paris: Maison d'Ennour (2019).

Journal articles

Bhattacharya S, Nevonen DE, Auty AJ, Graf A, Appleby M, Chaudhri N, Chekulaev D, Brückner C, Chauvet AAP & Nemykin VN (2023) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 127(37), 7694-7706.
Smitten K, Southam HM, Fairbanks S, Graf A, Chauvet A & Thomas JA (2023) . Chemistry – A European Journal.
Farrow GA, Quick M, Kovalenko SA, Wu G, Sadler A, Chekulaev D, Chauvet AAP, Weinstein JA & Ernsting NP (2021) . Phys Chem Chem Phys.
Gaulier G, Dietschi Q, Bhattacharyya S, Schmidt C, Montagnese M, Chauvet A, Hermelin S, Chiodini F, Bonacina L, Herrera PL , Rothlisberger U et al (2021) . Sci Adv, 7(18).
Clancy AJ, Suter TM, Taylor A, Bhattacharya S, Miller TS, Brázdová V, Aliev AE, Chauvet AAP, Corà F, Howard CA & McMillan PF (2021) . Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9(4), 2175-2183.
Graf A, Finkel J, Chauvet AAP & Rtimi S (2019) . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11(48), 45319-45329.
Yoann Pertot , Cédric Schmidt , Mary Matthews , Chauvet A, Martin Huppert , Vit Svoboda , Aaron von Conta , Andres Tehlar , Denitsa Baykusheva , Jean-Pierre Wolf & Hans Jakob Wörner (2017) . Science, 355(6322), 264-267.
Agarwal R & Chauvet AAP (2017) . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19, 3287-3296.
Chauvet AAP, Agarwal R, Haddad AA, van Mourik F & Cramer WA (2016) . Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, 12983-12991.
Chauvet AAP, Agarwal R, Cramer WA & Chergui M (2015) . Review of Scientific Instruments, 86(10), 106101-106101.
Al Haddad A, Chauvet A, Ojeda J, Arrell C, van Mourik F, Auböck G & Chergui M (2015) . Optics Letters, 40(3), 312-312.
Chauvet AAP, Al Haddad A, Kao W-C, van Mourik F, Hunte C & Chergui M (2015) . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(3), 2143-2151.
Chauvet A, Jankowiak R, Kell A, Picorel R & Savikhin S (2015) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119(2), 448-455.
Chauvet A, Tibiletti T, Caffarri S & Chergui M (2014) . Review of Scientific Instruments, 85(10), 103118-103118.
Hasan SS, Zakharov SD, Chauvet A, Stadnytskyi V, Savikhin S & Cramer WA (2014) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 118(24), 6614-6625.
Chauvet A, Sarrou J, Lin S, Romberger SP, Golbeck JH, Savikhin S & Redding KE (2013) . Photosynthesis Research, 116(1), 1-9.
Chauvet A, Dashdorj N, Golbeck JH, Johnson TW & Savikhin S (2012) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 116(10), 3380-3386.
Chauvet A, Jagannathan B, Golbeck JH & Savikhin S (2009) . Biophysical Journal, 96(3), 526a-527a.
Chauvet A () . American Journal of Islam and Society, 40(1-2), 8-38.
Saeed HK, Jarman PJ, Sreedharan S, Mowll R, Auty AJ, Chauvet AAP, Smythe CGW, de la Serna JB & Thomas JA () . Chemistry – A European Journal.
Auty AJ, Mansouriboroujeni N, Nagaraja T, Chekulaev D, Sorensen CM, Das SR, Martsinovich N & Chauvet AAP () . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Bhattacharya S, Graf A, Gomes AKMS, Chaudhri N, Chekulaev D, Brückner C, Cardozo TM & Chauvet AAP () . The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Brueckner C, Chaudhri N, Nevonen DE, Bhattacharya S, Graf A, Kaesmann E, Li R, Guberman-Pfeffer M, Mani T, Nimthong-Roldán A , Zeller M et al () . Chemistry – A European Journal.

Chapters

Chauvet A (2024) In Edelman DV & Guillaume P (Ed.), The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in F Equinox Publishing Ltd
A.P. Chauvet A () , Fourier Transforms - Century of Digitalization and Increasing Expectations IntechOpen
Chauvet AAP () , Advances in Microfluidics - New Applications in Biology, Energy, and Materials Sciences InTech

Conference proceedings papers

Williams J, Lin WC, Li W, Wang S, Matcher SJ & Chauvet AAP (2020) . Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2020 (Translational, Microscopy, OCT, OTS, BRAIN), 2020.
Pertot Y, Schmidt C, Matthews M, Chauvet A, Huppert M, Svoboda V, Von Conta A, Tehlar A, Baykusheva D, Wolf JP & Wörner HJ (2017) . 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2017 - Proceedings, Vol. 2017-January (pp 1-2)
Pertot Y, Schmidt C, Matthews M, Chauvet A, Huppert M, Svoboda V, von Conta A, Tehlar A, Baykusheva D, Wolf J-P & Worner HJ (2017) . 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), 25 June 2017 - 29 June 2017.
Pertot Y, Schmidt C, Matthews M, Chauvet A, Huppert M, Svoboda V, von Conta A, Tehlar A, Baykusheva D, Wolf J-P & Wörner HJ (2017) . Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2017.
Zakharov SD, Hasan SS, Chauvet A, Stadnytsky V, Savikhin S & Cramer WA (2014) . Biophysical Journal, Vol. 106(2) (pp 371a-371a)
Zakharov SD, Hasan SS, Chauvet A, Savikhin S & Cramer WA (2013) . Biophysical Journal, Vol. 104(2) (pp 488a-488a)

Teaching interests: Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopy.

Teaching activities

Undergraduate and postgraduate taught modules

Mathematics for Chemists 1 (Level 1)
This course covers the basic principles of mathematics needed for a degree in Chemistry.
UV-visible and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (Level 2)
The aims of this segment are to introduce general principles that apply to spectroscopic analysis, and to describe in more detail the use of UV-visible spectroscopy and magnetic resonance spectroscopy in molecular structure determination. Emphasis is placed on understanding the basic physical principles underpinning the techniques.

Support Teaching:

Tutorials: Level 1 General Chemistry
Level 3 Literature Review

Laboratory Teaching:

Level 2 Physical Laboratories
Level 4 Research Project

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School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Dr Adrien Chauvet

Books

Journal articles

Chapters

Conference proceedings papers

Undergraduate and postgraduate taught modules

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