Patrice Simon is Professor at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France, in the CIRIMAT Laboratory (UMR CNRS 5085).
His research is focused on the synthesis and the characterization of nanostructured materials for electrochemical energy storage sources, including Electrochemical Capacitors and Li-ion battery systems. His research on high surface area porous carbons for Electrochemical Capacitors (supercapacitors) has led to fundamental discoveries on the charge storage mechanism in sub-nanometer pores. He demonstrated, in collaboration with Prof Yury Gogotsi (Drexel University, USA) that pores smaller than the size of the solvated ions where accessible to the electrolyte ions thanks to the distortion of the solvation shell, leading to a huge increase of the charge stored. On the Li-ion battery side, he works on positive and negative nano-architectured electrodes using an original template-assisted electrochemical method for high power 3D microbatteries applications.

He obtained his Ph.D. in 1995 in Material Science at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Toulouse. He joined the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris in 1996 where he was appointed as Assistant Professor, and finally moved to Université Paul Sabatier in 2001.
Patrice Simon is a Junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France since September 2007.