Bernadette Charleux is a French polymer chemist.
[2] Since 2012, she is the Deputy Vice-president of Research and Development at Saint-Gobain.
[1] Bernadette Charleux first worked on emulsion polymerization, which led to the creation of new materials : functional latexes, amphiphilic copolymers, etc.
before turning to pioneering research on Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization in aqueous media.
More recently, she has worked on the creation of nano-objects via the self-assembly of macromolecules.