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”.
A warm welcome to Anas Abu Raed, who joins us from the group of Prof. Anat Milo at Ben-Gurion University, where he worked on multicomponent reactions and asymmetric catalysis. Anas is partially funded by an Israeli postdoctoral fellowship and will work on nonenzymatic versions of metabolic pathways. Welcome, Anas!
Congrats and farewell to postdoctoral fellow Yannick Geiger, who has started a tenure-track position (Chaire de Professeur Junior) to co-lead the Systems Chemistry Lab at our sister institute in Strasbourg (Chimie de la Matière Complexe). Yannick was only in our group for 11 months but quickly made an impact. We wish you all the best in your independent career!
Proud note: Yannick becomes the sixth PhD/postdoc from our lab to obtain an academic position since 2019, joining Sreejith, Robert, Marie, Abhijit, and Kamila. This doesn’t count research associates (David) or visiting PhD students (Martina) who have also gone on to lead their own academic labs.
Congrats to our former PhD student, Sreejith Varma, on being appointed as an Assistant Professor at IISER TVM, starting January 1, 2025. Check out his research page here.
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!
Congrats to Valentyn Pozhydaiev on successfully defending his thesis! He is the sixteenth PhD student to graduate from the group. Special thanks to jury members Prof. Olga Garcia Mancheño (Münster), Prof. Louis Fensterbank (Collège de France), and Dr. Anis Tlili (Lyon) for being part of the jury.
Atalay Bora Basar becomes the first graduate student to join our lab in Ottawa. Bora recently finished his BSc at the University of Ottawa. He was a summer student in our lab in Strasbourg in 2023 and was an NSERC USRA student in our lab in Ottawa in summer 2024. He will work on nonenzymatic catalysis of metabolic reactions. Welcome, Bora!
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!
Congrats and farewell to Dr. David Leboeuf, who has been named an independent group leader at LIMA, a CNRS institute at the University of Strasbourg. David was a CNRS research associate in our lab at ISIS for 4.5 years and published 13 papers (so far) in collaboration with Joseph during this time and co-supervised 3 PhD students. We are grateful for his many contributions over the years, both scientific and social. He will be missed. Check out the website of his new team. Best of luck in the next stage of your career and come visit often!
A warm welcome to Noemi Nogal Rodriguez, who joins us from the group of Prof. Andrés de la Escosura at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she worked on supramolecular chemistry and prebiotic chemistry. In our Ottawa lab, Noemi will work on the biosynthesis of coenzymes. Welcome, Noemi!
