Jonathan Houser joins us for graduate studies from the Trant lab at the University of Windsor. Jonathan has also won an NSERC CGS-M award to fund his studies. Congrats! He will work on understanding the origin of the catalytic relationship between RNA and proteins. Welcome, Jonathan!
Congrats to recent PhD graduate Maciej Piejko, who has won the 2026 thesis prize from the Fondation Jean-Marie Lehn of the University of Strasbourg! Maciej’s main project was on the use of NMR spectroscopy to probe the effects of vibrational strong coupling on London dispersion interactions, but his broad background allowed him to pursue side projects in many other topics. Maciej’s thesis was co-supervised by our lab’s own Dr. David Leboeuf and was carried out in collaboration with Prof. Thomas Ebbesen. Maciej is currently a postdoc at the Technical University of Munich. Congrats, Maciej!
A warm welcome to second year undergraduate student Imrâne Chemlal, who was awarded an NSERC USRA to conduct research in our lab this summer. He will work with Sinan Bascil on NMR kinetics of reactions under VSC.
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 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.
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 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”.
Recent PhD graduate Émilie Werner has been named as a winner of the Prix Jeunes Talents France 2024 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science. Congrats, Émilie!
Recent PhD graduate, Cyprien Muller, has been selected as a 2024 ISTA-Fellow. The fellowship is given to 10 outstanding recent PhD graduates per year who wish to carry out their postdoctoral research at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. Cyprien will hold his award in the laboratory of Prof. Rafal Klajn. Congrats, Cyprien!
Joseph visited the University of Texas at Austin for the first time since his postdoctoral days with Prof. Michael Krische. He gave a seminar and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from his former advisor.
