Patrice Simon is currently Distinguished Professeur of Materials Sciences at Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, at the CIRIMAT (UMR CNRS 5085) Laboratory. He also serves as Deputy director of the French network on electrochemical energy storage (RS2E, see http://www.energie-rs2e.com/en). He was awarded with a PhD in 1995 from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie - Toulouse. He started his career at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris in 1996 as Assistant Professor at the Chair of Electrochemistry, and joint Université Paul Sabatier in 2001. His research activities are focused onto the modification of the material / electrolyte interfaces in electrodes for electrochemical energy storage devices such as supercapacitors (electrochemical capacitors). He more specifically focuses on the synthesis and electrochemical characterizations of these interfaces using advanced techniques (micro-electrodes, cavity micro-electrodes, Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance) in combination with structural in-situ and in-operando techniques. His work on materials for supercapacitors has led to key advances in the field of porous carbons, pseudocapacitive materials and micro-supercapacitors. Patrice Simon received the Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2009. He was granted with an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (2012), the CNRS Silver medal and the RUSNANOPRIZE International Prize on Nanotechnologies (2015) and was nominated as ISE Fellow in 2016. Patrice Simon is former Junior member (2007) and currently senior member (2017) of the Institut Universitaire de France.