Sylvain Antoniotti is Co-Leader of the Université Côte d’Azur delegation. He serves as Vice President in charge of the Initiative of Excellence, Research Director at CNRS, and Director of the Institute of Innovation and Partnerships (2IP) in Aromas, Fragrances, and Cosmetics.
He earned his PhD in Chemical Sciences from Université Côte d’Azur in 2003, followed by postdoctoral positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY, USA) and Chimie ParisTech. In 2005, he was appointed CNRS Researcher at the future Institut de Chimie de Nice, where he founded his research group in 2012. Promoted to Research Director in 2017, he supervises projects in sustainable chemistry and fragrance chemistry.
In 2016, he was elected President of the Scientific Council of the ERINI platform in Grasse, and a year later began developing what became, in 2020, the 2IP Aromas, Fragrances, and Cosmetics. He joined the IdEx Board of Directors in 2020 as Strategic Director and was appointed Vice President in 2021.