Dominique Massiot studied at the 脡cole normale sup茅rieure in Paris, one of the most prestigious and competitive institutions in France. After completing his PhD in geochemistry, Massiot joined the Centre for Research on Materials at High Temperature (CRMHT) in Orl茅ans, France, and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), also in France. His research focuses on the study of disorder in organic or hybrid materials through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of materials in solid state or melts. He helped create France鈥檚 Research Infrastructure for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance at Very High Fields (IR-NMR-THC), of which he was also director, as well as the CEMHTI laboratory (laboratoire Conditions extr锚mes et mat茅riaux: haute temp茅rature et irradiation).
However, his work is not limited to the laboratory. Since 2013, Dominique Massiot has been the director of the CNRS Institute of Chemistry (INC), one of France鈥檚 10 public research institutes that manages 133 laboratories with several thousand researchers, researcher鈥損rofessors and technical staff.
He is the recipient of a number of awards and numerous prizes, including the Ivan Peych猫s award from the French Academy of Sciences in 1997, the CNRS Silver Medal in 2003 and, more recently, the Grammaticakis鈥揘eumann Prize and the French Academy of Sciences鈥 Berthelot Medal (in the Chemistry category) in 2013. Since 2016, Dominique Massiot has been a distinguished member of the French Chemical Society (Soci茅t茅 Chimique de France).