Frédéric Jaouen was born in France in 1974. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in 2003. Until 2011, he was a research associate in Professor Dodelet’s group at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada.

He is since 2013 a CNRS research fellow at the CNRS - Université de Montpellier joint research unit, Institut Charles Gerhardt (UMR 5253). His research interest focuses on novel catalysts based on Earth-abundant elements for catalysing O2 electroreduction in proton-exchange-membrane and anion-exchange-membrane fuel cells, as well as for catalysing CO2 electroreduction to valuable chemical products.

He is co-author of 80 publications, having been cited > 11,000 times.