Kedafi Belkhir

Kedafi Belkhir is an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at Centrale Lille. He conducts his research at Unité Matériaux Et Transformations (UMET) and teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL) and the University of Lille.

He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Materials Science from the University of Lyon in 2017. In recognition of the outstanding quality of his doctoral research, he was awarded the Jean Monnet Foundation Excellence Award. He subsequently held several academic and research positions, including a Teaching and Research Assistant (ATER) position at the GEMTEX laboratory of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles (ENSAIT) in Roubaix (2017–2018), a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Polymer Materials Engineering Laboratory (IMP) in Saint-Étienne (2018–2019), and another postdoctoral position at the Charles Gerhardt Institute of Montpellier (ICGM) (2019–2020). He joined Centrale Lille as an Associate Professor in 2020.

Throughout his career, Kedafi Belkhir has specialized in polymer science, with particular expertise in polymer chemistry. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of well-defined macromolecular architectures for the development of stimuli-responsive systems. He is now widely recognized in France as a leading expert in self-immolative polymers, a research area that he develops within the UMET laboratory.

He currently leads two research projects in the field of self-immolative polymers, both funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). The SIPONIUM project aims to develop stimuli-responsive macromolecular systems for biomedical applications. The SIPerSTAR project, conducted in collaboration with the French Comissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) in Grenoble, focuses on the development of reversible adhesives to facilitate the recycling of electronic components.