He joined the department in 2014 from BASF Corporation where he worked as a senior research scientist. At Illinois, his research focuses on the challenge of implementing recent advances in homogeneous catalysts into continuous processes. Dr. Guironnet received his MSc from Ecole Nationale Sup￿eure d'enseignement en Chimie in France in 2005 and his PhD from the University of Constance in Germany in 2009.