Emilie Werner

News from Recent Group Members

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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!

Dr. Emilie Werner

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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.

New publication

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Harpreet, Sophia, and Emilie’s paper on an H2-driven Ni-catalyzed reaction network that can make new ketoacids through reductive aldol chemistry and enable their reductive amination to amino acids in one pot without human intervention has been accepted for publication in Chem. Many thanks to our collaborators in Germany (Dr. Harun Tüysuz, Dr. Youngsong Dong and Prof. Bill Martin). Congrats to all!

New publication

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Emilie’s side project on the incorporation of sulfoximines into the aza-Piancatelli reaction has been published in Organic Letters. Our summer student from Heidelberg, Milena Wiegand, contributed to the project during her stay. Congrats to all!

New publication

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Emilie and Silvana’s paper on Fe(III)/ADP-promoted phosphate transfer from acetyl phosphate to nucleotide diphosphates to give nucleotide triphosphate in water is accepted in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Thanks to Robert for jumping in with DFT calculations during revisions. Congrats to all!

Harpreet presents for NASA’s PCE3 Research Coordination Network

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Harpreet Kaur presented her PhD research (as well as some of Emilie’s and Sophia’s) on rare metal catalysis in prebiotic chemistry at the latest virtual meeting of NASA’s Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments (PCE3) Research Coordination Network. As a bonus, don’t miss the 5-minute introduction to protometabolism by Kamila Muchowska. Well done, Harpreet!

You can watch her talk here (skip to 12:20)