Joseph Moran

Joseph Moran was born in Montréal, Canada in 1982. He completed a B.Sc. in chemistry in 2004 and a Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry in 2009 with Prof. André Beauchemin, both at the University of Ottawa. In 2010, he moved to the University of Texas at Austin for postdoctoral work with Prof. Michael Krische. In 2012, he joined the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (ISIS) at the University of Strasbourg as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory of Chemical Catalysis, where he was promoted to full professor in 2018. The same year, he became the founding director of the International Graduate School in Complex Systems Chemistry. He was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa, where he moved his main activities in 2024. Prof. Moran’s research aims to understand how life began, using the lens of biological metabolism as a guide. His group is also interested in developing new conceptual approaches to catalyzing organic reactions, such as extreme solvent effects, vibrational strong coupling, and electric field catalysis.

jmoran@uottawa.ca ;  moran@unistra.fr

Photo credit: N. Escanlar

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