Cassandre Bories received her Ph.D. from Sorbonne Université in 2023 under the supervision of Dr. Marc Petit, focusing on low-valent and well-defined cobalt hydrides in catalysis. Since 2023 she moved to the University of Manchester for a postdoctoral position under the supervision of Pr. Igor Larrosa, where she was awarded the same year a MSCA (Marie-Skłodowska Curie Actions) Individual fellowship to perform C–H bond activations using ruthenacycles.