Biography
Odile Eisenstein is CNRS research director emeritus at the Charles-Gerhardt Institute, University of Montpellier, and former director of the CTMM team at Montpellier-II University.
Odile Eisenstein is a French theoretical chemist specializing in structural modeling and the reactivity of transition metal and lanthanide complexes. She became the first woman admitted to the chemistry section of the French Academy of Sciences in 2013. In 1977, she defended her state thesis at Paris-Sud University under the supervision of Lionel Salem and Nguyen Trong Anh. In 1978, she took up a post-doctoral position with Jack D. Dunitz at ETH Zurich, then in 1979 with Roald Hoffmann at Cornell University (USA). She began her independent career at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1982, returning to Paris Sud in 1984 to become director of the Theoretical Chemistry group in 1986. In 1996, she joined the University of Montpellier-II.
