FERJI Khalid (HDR)

Lieu de travail:

Ecole Nationale supérieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC)

Statut:

Maitre de conférences

Axes et thématiques:

**Photo-Polymerization induced self-assembly**

**Encapsulation of QDs in photo-cross-linked micelles**

**Smart nanocarriers for drug delivery**

Education and experience:

Khalid Ferji received his PhD degree in polymer chemistry in 2013 at University of Lorraine, where he learned the art of (co)polymer design. In 2013-2014, he joined the IMMM (University of Maine) as postdoctoral researcher, where he acquired a strong background in colloid science and light scattering technique. Then, in order to increase his skill on the macromolecules at the interface of biomedicine, he moved to the LCPO (University of Bordeaux) as postdoctoral fellow. During his 18 months postdoctoral, he worked on self-assembly of copolymers/lipids to produce biomimetic vesicles, which can be used as nanocarriers for drug/gene delivery and as cells model. Currently, Dr. K. Ferji is an Associate Professor at ENSIC and researcher at the LCPM. He obtained his accreditation to supervise research (HDR) in 2022 on the preparation of nano-objects based on polysaccharides using "photo-RAFT polymerization induced self-assembly (photo-RAFT PISA)" methodology.

short CV

Teaching and administrative activities:

Polymer Science and organic synthesis at different levels (Bachelor and Master), mainly at two Schools of Engineers (ENSIC and EEIGM) - Lorraine University.

Pedagogical coordinator of the Master program "Products Environment Resources Energy (PERSEE)"

Research activity:

- Colloids and nanoobjects formulation via in-situ Polymerization Induced Self-Assembly (PISA).
- Macromolecular synthesis by controlled radical polymerization (ATRP, RAFT, PET-RAFT,...).
- Photo-RAFT polymerization.
- Polysaccharides modification and glycopolymers synthesis.
- Functional and sensitive polymers (pH, photo, thermal and redox).
- Physical-chemistry (light scattering) and amphiphiles self-assembly.
- Therapeutic nanotechnologies, drug-Delivery, biomaterials.
- Organic Chemistry.

<Watch a photo-PISA in water>

Memberships, editorial and review activities:

- French Polymer Group (GFP). President of the East section (2022-...).

- French Chemical Society (SCF).

- Advisory Board of Polymers.

- Guest Editor for Polymers, special issue “Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly, PISA” (2021).

- Guest Editor for Polymers, special issue “Glycopolymers and Polysaccharide-based Copolymers” (2019).

- Referee for many scientific journals: https://publons.com/researcher/1324992/khalid-ferji/

- Expert for French National Research Agency (2022), ACS Petroleum Research Fund (2021) and Czech Academy of Sciences (2020).

Selection of recent publications:

- Progress in Aqueous Dispersion RAFT PISA, D. Ikkene, J-L. Six and K. Ferji, European Polymer Journal, 2023, In press.

- Multicompartment Vesicles: A Key Intermediate Structure in Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly of Graft Copolymers, D. Ikkene, A.A. Arteni, C. Boulogne, J-L. Six, K. Ferji*, Macromolecules, 2022, 55, 11, 4268–4275.

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-Direct Access to Polysaccharide-Based Vesicles with a Tunable Membrane Thickness in a Large Concentration Window via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly, D. Ikkene, A.A. Arteni, M. Ouldali, G. Francius, A. Brûlet, J-L. Six, K. Ferji*, Biomacromolecules, 2021, 22, 3128-3137

-Mechanistic Insights into Oxygen Tolerance of Graphitic Carbon Nitride-Mediated Heterogeneous Photoinduced Electron Transfer-Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization, E. Fonseca, B. Chouchen, J-L. Six, R. Schneider, K. Ferji*, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2021, 3, 7, 3649–3658

-Self-assembly of Amphiphilic Copolymers Containing Polysaccharide: PISA versus Nanoprecipitation, and the Temperature Effect, D. Ikkene, A.A. Arteni, M. Ouldali, J-L. Six, K. Ferji*, Polymers Chemistry, 2020,11, 4729-4740

-Synthesis of Thermoresponsive Copolymers with Tunable UCST-Type Phase Transition Using Aqueous Photo-RAFT Polymerization, P. Lertturongchai, M. I. A. Ibrahim, A. Durand, P. Sunintaboon, and K. Ferji*, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 41, 2020, 2000058.

UCST; LCST; photopolymerization; ferji; light scattering; micelle; LCPM; polymersome

-Effect of Tertiary Amines on the Photoinduced Electron Transfer-Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer (PET-RAFT) Polymerization, Nomeir, B., Fabre, O. and Ferji, K.* Macromolecules, 52, 18, 2019, 6898–6903.

PET-RAFT; photopolymerization; ferji; light scattering; micelle; LCPM; polymersome

-Polymerization induced self-assembly: an opportunity toward the self-assembly of polysaccharide-containing copolymers into high-order morphologies, Six, J-L., Ferji, K.* Polymer Chemistry, 2019,10, 45-53 (review).

-In situ glyco-nanostructure formulation via photo-polymerization induced self-assembly, FERJI, K.*; Venturini, P.; , Cleymand, Chassenieux, C. Six, J-L. Polymer chemistry, 2018,9, 2868-2872.