Agathe Bouvet-Marchand, PhD

R&D Manager of the Advanced Materials and Coatings (AMC) activity

Agathe graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Montpellier (ENSCM) Chemistry School in 2015 and received her Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry at Aix-Marseille University in 2018 on functional hybrid thin films. She became a member of the SPECIFIC POLYMERS team in 2015 and she is now leading the Advanced Materials and Coatings’ activity (AMC), conducting R&D projects for industrial and collaborative partners.

Over the years, she had the opportunity to work on challenging and successful projects such as the implementation of new resins for biometric identification, the embedding of biological components with preservation of bio-fluorescence or for the energy sector (electrodes and membranes for supercapacitor).Moreover, she conducted innovative developments on coatings exhibiting various properties like high electronic conductivity, anticontamination or anti-erosion behavior. One of her fields of research is also dedicated to the development of high performance resins for composites (RTM, infusion, prepreg), showing for instance continuous use temperature above 250°C.

With her team, Agathe aims to support SP’s customers in the development of innovative formulations or impart new functionalities and added value to existing products. The spectrum of application is large, going from functional coatings to resins with enhanced performances for composite. Thanks to our ability to handle a large variety of chemistries and with the support of the molecular dynamics, the objective of the team AMC is to adapt our know-how to complex specifications requirements, both properties and process related. Moreover, through our research, we want to provide as much as possible our customers with sustainable solutions using chemicals with high bio-content or limiting the amount of COV in our formulations.