
credit: N. Escanlar
Director, Laboratory of Chemical Catalysis Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS
8 allée Gaspard Monge BP 70028 F-67000 Strasbourg Cedex
Office Phone: 33 (0)3 68 85 52 02
Lab Phone: 33 (0)3 68 85 51 88
Curriculum Vitae
- Director, Complex Systems Chemistry International Graduate School (for queries, contact grad-csc@unistra.fr)
- Professor, University of Strasbourg, September 2018-present
- Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférences Associé), University of Strasbourg, September 2012-August 2018
- Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), September 2014 (guarantor: J.-P. Sauvage)
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin (M.J. Krische), 2010-2012
- Visiting Scientist, National Research Council of Canada (J.P. Pezacki), 2009-2010
- Ph.D., University of Ottawa (A.M. Beauchemin), 2004-2009
- B.Sc., University of Ottawa (S.L. Scott & W.W. Ogilvie), 2000-2004
- Born 1982 in Montréal, Canada
Awards and Honours
- Liebig Lectureship of the German Chemical Society (2022)
- Institut Universitaire de France, Junior Member (2021-2026)
- ERC Consolidator Grant (2021-2026)
- Forcheurs Jean-Marie Lehn Prize shared with Harun Tüysüz (2020)
- C&EN Talented 12 (2018)
- Jean Normant Prize for Assistant Professors, SCF (2018)
- Guy Ourisson Prize, Cercle Gutenberg (2017)
- ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020)
- JSP Fellow, 49th Bürgenstock Conference (2014)
- Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (2013-2017)
- Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2013)
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010 – 2012)
- Ph.D. Thesis Jury Prize Nominee (2009)
- Boehringer Ingelheim Graduate Research Award in Organic Chemistry (2008)
- NSERC Postgraduate Doctoral Scholarship (2006 – 2008)
- NSERC Canada Graduate Masters Scholarship (2004 – 2006)
- 3M Canada Incorporated Annual Bursary (2004)
- Keith J. Laidler Scholarship in Chemistry (2004)
- NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (2002, 2003, declined 2004)
Selected Media
- “‘Impossible’ chemistry may reveal origins of life on Earth” National Geographic, April 4, 2022.
- “Metals could have catalyzed amino acid synthesis on early Earth” C&EN, November 22, 2021
- « La recette d’un métabolisme primitif » La Recherche, January 2021 (pdf)
- “What are chemical signs of life beyond Earth?” C&EN, November 29, 2020 (pdf)
- “Joseph Moran – Searching for the Origins of Life” Today’s Science, April 2020 (pdf)
- “Earth’s first life may have fuelled itself with a metal metabolism” New Scientist, April 16, 2020 (pdf)
- “Was this life’s first meal?” Science Magazine, March 2, 2020
- “Iron can catalyze metabolic reactions alone” C&EN, May 6, 2019 (pdf)
- “Mirrors in the dark enable chemical control” Chemistry World, February 8, 2019 (pdf)
- “Who Will Win the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry” C&EN Online, September 28, 2018
- “Talented 12 – Joseph Moran” C&EN, August 13, 2018 (pdf)
- « La science est aussi créative que l’art » recherche.unistra.fr, September 30, 2018
- « Aux sources de la vie» Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, August 20, 2017 (pdf)