Andrée Marquet studied engineering at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris, then defended a thesis prepared at the Collège de France under the direction of Jean Jacques (1961), followed by a post-doctoral internship at the ETH in Zurich with Professor Duilio Arigoni. After a career at the CNRS, she was appointed professor at the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University (1978) and founded the organic biological chemistry laboratory there. She contributed, with a few others, to the development of this interface sub-discipline at the national level, which was still in its infancy, and created at UPMC adapted teaching courses where chemists and biochemists could meet.
In addition to her work as a teacher-researcher, she has held various positions of general interest.
Between 1984 and 1986, she chaired the organic chemistry division of the Société chimique de France, and from 1987 to 1991, the Société Franco-japonaise de chimie fine et thérapeutique. She chaired section 20 of the CNRS National Committee (1991-1995) and was a member of the CNRS Scientific Council from 1992 to 1997. In 1998, she became Scientific Director of the Chemistry Department at the Research Department of the MENRT. Between 1999 and 2003, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Palais de la Découverte, and between 2007 and 2008, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the MENRT.
2011, member of the Ethics Committee of the CNRS. In 2002, she founded the "Chemistry and Society" Commission, within the Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, of which she remains president until 2011. This commission seeks to analyse the origin of the misunderstanding that has developed between chemistry and society, and to contribute to the search for solutions by organising actions resolutely directed towards the general public.