Antoine is Professor of Sustainable Polymer Chemistry and a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York (UK), where he and his team moved in April 2024. Prior to this position he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bath. He began his independent research career at Bath as a Whorrod Research Fellow in 2013, before being awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2017 and promoted to Reader (2019) then Professor (2023). While at Bath Antoine was also one of the Associate Directors (Sustainable Chemical Technologies) of the University of Bath Institute for Sustainability.

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Originally from France, Antoine graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, where he also completed his PhD, under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Le Floch (2009). He then moved to the UK and worked at Imperial College London as a postdoctoral research assistant in the group of Prof. Charlotte K. Williams FRS. Antoine returned to France in 2011 and gained industrial R&D experience, working for Air Liquide on Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilisation (CCSU) projects.

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He and his team are part of the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence​, where their research focuses on the development of polymers derived from renewable resources (e.g., carbohydrates, CO2, vegetable oils, terpenes). The ultimate goal of this research is to produce more sustainable polymers, to address the challenges associated with the intensive use of non-degradable polymers derived from fossil fuels.

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Research in the team is interdisciplinary, combining experimental and computational work, and has recently involved the synthesis of monomers from sugars, controlled (de)polymerisation catalysis, the structure-property relationship of polymers, and their applications as commodity plastics (packaging, elastomers, coatings) and specialty functional molecules (liquid formulations, electrolytes for batteries, sensors for health).​​

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