Inspired by discussions with members of our research group in Strasbourg and in Ottawa (Emilie, Maciej and Joseph), Québec artist Julie Tremble open her exhibit LUCABOT today at the OBORO gallery in Montréal. The exhibit runs until June 6, with audio in French.
Marcus’ News and Views article on a recent paper from Zare, Dai and coworkers on how bimolecular condensates promote nonenzymatic reductive amination reactions has appeared in Nature Chemical Biology. Congrats, Marcus!
Lots of good news from recent group members.
Former PhD student Dr. Emilie Werner was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Prof. Igor Larossa at the University of Manchester.
Former PhD student Dr. Cyprien Muller, now a postdoctoral fellow at ISTA with Prof. Rafal Klajn, was selected to attend the prestigious 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
Former PhD student Dr. Maciej Piejko has received a Walter-Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Prof. Robert Mayer (also a group alumni) at TUM.
Former research associate (CR) Dr. David Leboeuf was promoted to Director of Research (DR) at the CNRS. He has led his own group at LIMA since 2024.
Keep up the great work, everyone!
Congrats to Shunjiro Sodei on successfully defending his thesis! He is the eighteenth PhD student to graduate from the group. Special thanks to jury members Prof. Grégoire Danger (Marseille), Prof. Klara Hlouchova (Charles University), and Dr. Wolfgang Nitschke (Marseille), and our jury president Prof. Sheref Mansy (Trento).
Congrats to Sinan Bascil for receiving the prize for best poster at the 53rd Physical Organic Mini-Symposium (POMS), an annual national conference for students, postdocs and faculty doing physical organic chemistry. Sinan’s poster featured his work on improving our ability to monitor vibrational strong coupling experiments by NMR.
Three new MSc student have joined the group. New Brunswicker Marcus Vaillancourt joins us from Acadia University, Newfoundlander Rosemary Karn joins us from the University of Ottawa, and Ontarian Jack Cottingham joins us from Carleton University. All three received Merit scholarships. A warm welcome to all three!
Cyprien’s paper on the kinetics of a Diels-Alder reaction under Vibrational Strong Coupling has appeared in Angewandte Chemie Internal Edition. The Diels-Alder reaction is proposed as a useful framework for future studies on how intramolecular vibrational redistribution can influence outcomes. Congrats to Cyprien, Maciej and Sinan!
A warm welcome to Rim El Alaoui and Isaac Utovac, who join our lab for the summer. Rim is a second year student at uOttawa who won an NSERC USRA award. Isaac is a third year coop student at uOttawa. Welcome to both!
Congrats to Maciej Piejko on successfully defending his thesis! He is the seventeenth PhD student to graduate from the group. Special thanks to jury members Prof. Peter Schreiner (Giessen), Dr. Ilaria Ciofini (ParisTech), and our jury president Prof. Jérôme Lacour (Geneva).
Congrats to recent PhD graduate Valentyn Pozhydaiev, who has won the best PhD thesis prize from the Alsace chapter of the French Chemical Society (SCF) for his thesis entitled “New Reactions of Aminofunctionalization of Alkenes”.
The Moran Research Group 