Christine Courillon followed PhD studies at CNRS and was a post-doctoral associate at the University of Austin, Texas, where she worked on the total synthesis of Ambruticine.
Christine returned to Paris at the University Pierre et Marie Curie where she defended an Habilitation to direct research in the field of stereoselective organic chemistry.
She then received a full professor position at the University Paris-Diderot where she developed radical heterocyclic chemistry.
In 2009, Christine left Paris for Brussels first as an innovation manager and then as the chair of the European project office at the Free University of Brussels. She joined ERCEA in 2015, as the "Physical & Analytical Chemistry" (PE4) panel coordinator and now coordinates the PE5 panel "Synthetic Chemistry and Material Sciences".