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

 moran@unistra.fr

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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)