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Dr. Thomas Auvray is an assistant professor in Physical Chemistry of Materials at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières since November 2024 and regular member of the Institut de Recherche sur l’Hydrogène. He obtained his B.Sc. (2012) and M.Sc. (2014) in Chemistry from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI, France), working with Prof. Anna Proust and Prof. Christophe Petit on self-assembled binary superlattices based on superparamagnetic nanoparticles and giant polyoxometalates for his final master project. He then moved to Canada where he obtained his Ph.D. in 2020, working with Prof. Garry S. Hanan at the Université de Montréal on the development of supramolecular systems for artificial photosynthesis. After a year as postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Ellen M. Matson at the University of Rochester (NY, US) exploring the use polyoxometalates as ligands for actinide cations, he joined McGill University as a Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologie postdoctoral fellow (2021-2022) working with Prof. Tomislav Friščić on the use of mechanochemistry for the synthesis of coordination compounds and sustainable methods for metal purification. He moved with the Friščić group in 2022 to the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham (UK) as senior research fellow, coordinating the group relocation while focusing his research on advancing mechanochemistry for the preparation inorganic and organometallic materials and the use of spectroscopic in-situ methods for the study of mechanochemical processes.