Marie Perrin - CEO & Co-Founder

Marie was born in the sunny city of Houston, USA and raised in the nonetheless sunny city of Toulouse in the south of France. After two years of Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles, she moved to Paris to pursue her chemistry studies at ENS Paris-Saclay, and holds a Masters in Molecular Chemistry and Interfaces from Ecole Polytechnique. For her Masters she also moved back to the US for a research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Passionate about chemistry, “the centrale science”, and how it is key to understand and solve the challenges we face ahead, in 2019 she decided to pursue with a PhD at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, where her work focuses on rare earth chemistry for electrocatalysis and recycling applications. Marie is quite involved in supporting the global science community. She was president of the young Swiss Chemical Society from 2022 to 2023, and is currently a Swiss delegate at the European Young Chemist Network, where she had the chance to co-organize national and international conferences and establish a mentoring program. When she is not in the lab smashing lamps to recycle, she loves playing music, reading and always enjoy a good conversation around a glass of wine !