Bernard Meunier is currently Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS in Toulouse (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination) and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Technology of Guangdong in Guangzhou (R. P. China) since 2012. Bernard Meunier has been an Associate Professor at the « École Polytechnique » (1993-2006) and President of the CNRS (2004-2006). He has been Professor at the "Collège de France" (2014-2015) on the Innovation chair supported by the Liliane Bettencourt Foundation. The research of Bernard Meunier covered various fields such as biomimetic oxidations, bioinorganic chemistry and medicinal chemistry. Since 2004, he is working on the design of copper chelators as potential drug-candidates for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Bernard Meunier is the co-author of more than 430 publications (including twenty book chapters) and 36 patents. Bernard Meunier received the Silver Medal of the CNRS (1991), the Prize of the Coordination Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society (1994), the Prize Clavel and the Berthelot Medal of the French Academy of Sciences (1997), the Prize Descartes-Huygens of the Royal Academy of the Netherlands (2001), the Prize Von Humboldt-Gay Lussac (2002), the Prize Le Bel of the French Chemical Society (2007) and the Sino-French Award of the Chinese Chemical Society (2024). Bernard Meunier has been elected Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1999. He is also Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2005) and Associate Member of the French National Academy of Pharmacy (2013). Bernard Meunier has been elected Vice-president (2013-2014) and then President of the French Academy of Sciences (2015-2016).