Pascal Raybaud graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy in 1992, and from the École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs (IFP School) in 1995, received a PhD jointly from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, in 1998, and a national accreditation to supervise research from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, in 2009. He received the award of the Catalysis Division of the French Chemical Society in 2010. He is project manager, and expert in catalysis and theoretical chemistry in the Catalysis and Separation Division of IFP Energies nouvelles, based in Lyon