Sylvain Caillol is Research Director at CNRS. He graduated as an engineer from the National Graduate School of Chemistry of Montpellier in 1998, and then received his M. Sc. Degree in Chemistry from the University of Montpellier. He obtained his doctorate in 2001 from the University of Bordeaux. Then, he joined the Rhodia Company where he headed the polymer research department at the Paris Research Center. In 2007, he joined the CNRS at the Charles Gerhardt Institute at the University of Montpellier. His research focuses on Biobased Polymers and Sustainable Design of Polymers. He is co-author of nearly 300 articles, patents and book chapters. He won the Green Materials Prize in 2018 and 2020 and he has been on Stanford‘s list of World Top Scientists since 2021. He won the Carnot Prize in 2023.