Mohamad Rachid is a PhD candidate at INSA-Rennes under the supervision of Dr. Christophe Lescop and the co-supervision of Dr. Guillaume Calvez. His doctoral research focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of new polymetallic Cu(I)-based molecular assemblies exhibiting photoactive and thermally responsive luminescence in the solid state. His work exploits the coordination chemistry of Cu(I) centers with chelating phosphine ligands, which serve as versatile molecular scaffolds for directing the self-assembly of coordination polymers, extended supramolecular networks, and discrete metallacycles. These assemblies are engineered to display tunable luminescent properties while enabling reversible chemical, thermal, and light energy storage through controlled coordination equilibria and photoinduced transformations. The resulting systems are investigated using single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction, temperature-dependent photophysical measurements, and thermal analysis techniques (TGA, DSC).
He holds a Master’s degree from the LUMOMAT program at the University of Angers, carried out at moltech-Anjou laboratory as a double diploma with the Lebanese University and funded by Erasmus+. During the internship, research focused on the synthesis of chiral π-conjugated cations via asymmetric synthesis methodologies, their incorporation into halide perovskite frameworks to induce chirality, and the evaluation of their chiroptical and luminescent properties by circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectroscopy.
He previously completed an M1 in Physical Chemistry and Chemistry of Materials (Lebanese University, Section 1, Hadath) and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (Lebanese University, Section 4, Zahle).
Mohamad was born in 2002 in Taraya, Baalbeck, in eastern Lebanon.
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