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Lionel Salmon was born in Mazamet (France) in 1973. He received his Ph.D. thesis in coordination chemistry in the field of spin-crossover compounds and under the supervision of Jean Pierre Tuchagues and Azzedine Bousseksou from the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse in 1999. Then, he obtained a teacher and research assistant position in the same group for one year. He held a postdoctoral position in 2000 at the Max Planck Institute of Mülheim (Germany) in the team of Karl Wieghardt and worked on the modelisation and nitrosylation of non-heme ferrous centers of metalloproteins. In 2001, he received a permanent position at the CNRS in the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination des Elements f (Service de Chimie Moléculaire, CEA Saclay) in the group of Michel Ephritikhine to develop the syntheses and magnetic behavior of novel heteropolynuclear 3d/5f compounds. In 2006, he joined the Molecular Physics Properties group of Azzedine Bousseksou in the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination of Toulouse ; his current research focuses on the elaboration of bistable molecular materials and studies on the interaction between bistable molecules and surfaces. Since 2015, he is Research Director at the CNRS.