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Geneviève Blondin honored with the Luigi Sacconi Medal in Inorganic Chemistry


​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Geneviève Blondin, head of the Physicochemistry of Metals in Biology (PMB) team at the CEA-Irig/Laboratory of Chemistry and Biology of Metals (LCBM), has been awarded the prestigious Luigi Sacconi Medal by the foundation of the same name and by the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society. This award recognizes her outstanding career and significant contributions to the field of inorganic chemistry.​​

Published on 9 September 2025

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Every year, the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society, in collaboration with the Luigi Sacconi Foundation, awards the Luigi Sacconi Medal at its annual meeting to a scientist (Italian or foreign) who has achieved particularly significant results in the field of inorganic chemistry, a field to which Luigi Sacconi made an exceptional contribution. ​​

On September 9, 2025, in Naples, Geneviève Blondin, head of the Metal Physicochemistry in Biology team at the Laboratory of Chemistry and Biology of Metals (LCBM), received this prestigious medal for the international impact of her work.


Presentation of the Sacconi Medal by Mario Chiesa, president of the inorganic chemistry division of the Italian Chemical Society (center), and Maurizio Peruzzini, president of the Luigi Sacconi Foundation (right). (c) Maurizio Peruzzini​


Hired by t​he CNRS in 1992, Geneviève Blondin first worked at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at Paris-Sud University in Orsay, where she studied manganese complexes using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPRspectroscopy in order to better understand the oxygen release center in plants, a key site in Photosy​stem II. Arriving at the CEA site in 2006, Geneviève Blondin devoted herself to the application of Mössbauer spectroscopy to various iron-based systems. Among these, Fe-S clusters, present in many proteins, and their synthetic counterparts are at the heart of her interests. 

She is the author or co-author of more than 80 publications.



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