Valentyn’s paper on a styrene diamination that installs an NH2 group alongside nearly any nitrogen nucleophile has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie. Congrats!
New publication
David leaves for LIMA
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!
Joseph Receives Distinguished Alumni Award from UT Austin
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.
Dr. Noemi Nogal-Rodriguez joins the lab
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!
New publication
Robert’s paper on the metal-dependent nonenzymatic reaction of NADH with keto acids has been accepted for publication in Chem. Our second paper in that journal in 2024. Congrats!
Dr. Joris Zimmermann
Congrats to Joris Zimmermann on successfully defending his thesis! He is the fifteenth PhD student to graduate from the group. Special thanks to jury members Prof. Nick Lane (UCL), Dr. Jean-Claude Guillemin (Rennes), and Dr. Claudia Bonfio (Strasbourg) for being part of the jury.
Dr. Cyprien Muller
Congrats to Cyprien Muller on successfully defending his thesis! He is the fourteenth PhD student to graduate from the group. Special thanks to jury members Prof. Véronique Michelet (Nice), Dr. Laurence Grimaud (ENS Paris), and Dr. Sami Lahkdar (Toulouse) for being part of the jury.
New publication
The latest from our collaboration with the Ebbesen group on Vibrational Strong Coupling is published in Angewandte Chemie. We disclose an optical cavity that can fit in a standard NMR tube, allowing to directly observe the effects of VSC by NMR. The technique is showcased by using Schreiner’s molecular balance for London dispersion forces to probe how those forces change under VSC. Congrats to Bianca, Maciej and all the other authors!
Dr. Emilie Werner
Congrats to Emilie Werner on successfully defending her thesis! She is the thirteenth PhD student to graduate from the group. Special thanks to jury members Prof. Henning Jessen (Freiburg), Prof. Grégoire Danger (Marseille), and Dr. Claudia Bonfio (Strasbourg) for being part of the jury.
Joseph named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa
After 12 wonderful years in France, the group will move its main activities to the University of Ottawa, (Canada) where Joseph was recently named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair. The group will maintain a small lab in Strasbourg until the end of Joseph’s ongoing ERC Consolidator Grant. See the press release here.
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