Conférenciers invités

 

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Prof. Christophe Copéret (CCH) received a PhD in chemistry with Prof. E.i. Negishi (Purdue University, USA – 1991-1996), where he studied the synthesis of complex molecules via Pd-catalyzed carbonylation reactions. After a postdoctoral stay with Prof. K.B. Sharpless (Scripps), CCH was offered a research position at CNRS in 1998 and was promoted CNRS Research Director in 2008. Since 2010, CCH is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich. His scientific interest lies at the frontiers of molecular, material and surface chemistry as well as NMR spectroscopy with the aims to design molecularly-defined solid catalysts through detailed mechanistic studies and structure-activity relationships.


 

 

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Prof. Serena DeBeer is a Professor and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, an honorary faculty member at Ruhr University in Bochum, and the group leader of the PINK Beamline at the Energy Materials In‐Situ Laboratory at Helmholtz Zentrum in Berlin. She received her B.S. in Chemistry at Southwestern University in 1995 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2002. From 2002-2009, she was a staff scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, before moving to her faculty position at Cornell. She is the recipient of a European Research Council Synergy Award (2019), the American Chemical Society Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award (2016), the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry Early Career Award (2015), a European Research Council Consolidator Award (2013), a Kavli Fellowship (2012), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2011). Research in the DeBeer group is focused on the development and application of advanced X-ray spectroscopic tools for understanding key mechanisms in biological, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.

 

bas de bruin

Prof. Bas de Bruin studied chemistry at the University of Nijmegen from 1989-1994. He obtained his PhD (April 20, 1999) from the same university (Rh Mediated Olefin Oxygenation). He did his postdoc in the group of Wieghardt at the Max-Planck Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie (Mülheim a/d Ruhr, Germany, April 1999-April 2000). After his postdoc he returned to the University of Nijmegen as an assistant professor in Inorganic Chemistry (Metal-Organic Chemistry), where he was involved in several research activities ranging from olefin oxygenation, radical organometallic chemistry, C1 (carbene) polymerisation, EPR spectroscopy, catalysis, DFT calculations and (catalytic) organic synthesis of new materials. November 2005 he moved to the University of Amsterdam (UvA, group Reek, Homogeneous and Supramolecular Catalysis), where he was promoted to Associate Professor (UHD, October 2008). January 2013 he was promoted to Full Professor (chair) at the same university. Bas de Bruin presently focuses at the development of new tools in homogeneous catalysis, using metals in unconventional oxidation states and unconventional ligands, specifically aiming at the development of new catalytic reactions. He is involved in teaching Inorganic Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Organometallic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis and (Catalytic) Reaction Mechanisms.

 

 

 

 Carole Duboc

Dr. Carole Duboc received her PhD from the University of Grenoble in 1998 under the supervision of Professor Marc Fontecave and Doctor Stéphane Menage. Following postdoctoral position at the University of Minnesota, with Professor William Tolman, she joined the High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Grenoble in 2000 and the Department of Molecular Chemistry at Grenoble in 2007, where she is now CNRS senior researcher. Her research interests were always turned to two different scientific axis: the elucidation of the magnetic properties of metal complexes through an approach combining spectroscopic techniques and theoretical chemistry, and the design of bio-inspired complexes containing metal-sulfur bond(s) to develop structural and/or functional models of metalloenzymes. More specifically, the goals of her current projects concern the development of efficient systems for redox catalysis involving multi-electron reactions, with a special focus on complexes capable of reproducing certain vital reactivity of the living world with a major interest in the field of energy and environment. Several specific reactions or processes are targeted: selective reduction of oxygen in water or hydrogen peroxide, reduction of protons in hydrogen, and activation & valorization of CO2.

 

 

Pat Holland

Prof. Patrick Holland was trained at Princeton University (A.B. 1993) and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D. 1997). After organometallic research at Berkeley with Richard Andersen and Robert Bergman, he pursued postdoctoral research on copper-O2 and copper-thiolate chemistry with William Tolman at the University of Minnesota. His independent research at the University of Rochester initially focused on systematic development of the properties and reactions of three-coordinate complexes of iron and cobalt. Since then, his research group has broadened its studies to iron-N2 chemistry, reactive metal-ligand multiple bonds, iron-sulfur clusters, engineered metalloproteins, redox-active ligands, solar H2 production, and the mechanisms of organometallic transformations at base metal complexes. In 2013, Prof. Holland moved to Yale University, where he is now Professor of Chemistry. His research has been recognized with an NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Research Award, Fulbright and Humboldt Fellowships, a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, and election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is especially known for his work on N2 reduction, where his group has established many of the molecular principles through which iron species are able to weaken and break the strong N-N bond, in order to use this abundant resource for energy and synthesis applications. His group has made a particular effort to gain insight into iron chemistry relevant to the iron-molybdenum cofactor of nitrogenase, the enzyme that reduces N2 in nature, and he is one of the leaders in understanding synthetic mimics of nitrogenase. His group also maintains an active program in the use of inexpensive metals for organometallic reactions of alkenes, which contributes to sustainable catalysis.

 

 

Vera Krewald

Prof. Vera Krewald obtained her PhD under the supervision of Prof. F. Neese and Dr. D. A. Pantazis at the MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, having worked on the water splitting reaction in natural photosynthesis. After a Marie-S.-Curie postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. L. González, University of Vienna, Austria, she began independent research as a 50th Anniversary Prize Fellow at the University of Bath, UK, in 2017. Since December 2018, she is a tenure track professor at TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Research in her group focusses on the electronic structure analysis of open-shell transition metal complexes using density functional theory and wavefunction methods. A central topic is the light-driven activation and transformation of nitrogen, for which the underlying photophysical and photochemical processes and the experimentally observed competition between excited state decay pathways are analysed. Computational spectroscopy is relevant in all research projects, most recently with Mößbauer spectroscopy as a tool for the identification of active sites in the oxygen reduction reaction of graphene-embedded iron catalysts. Furthermore, her group investigates the magnetic coupling in oligonuclear transition metal complexes, such as those relevant for artificial water oxidation, with modern computational tools.

 

 

Sami Lakhdar

Dr. Sami Lakhdar studied chemistry at the University of Monastir (Tunisia), where he graduated in 2002. He received his PhD in Chemistry in November 2006 at the University of Versailles working in the area of physical organic chemistry, under the direction of Professors François Terrier and Taoufik Boubaker. In 2007, he joined the group of Professor Herbert Mayr at the Ludwig Maximilians University (Munich, Germany) as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, where his studies centered on reaction mechanisms of organocatalyzed reactions. Since January 2013, he is working as a CNRS Researcher (Chargé de Recherche CNRS) at Caen University and ENSICAEN, France. Sami has received the Klaus Römer-Foundation Award (2011), the Thieme journal award (2013), and the Jean-Pierre Sauvage Prize from the Division of Organic Chemistry (French Chemical Society, 2019). His research focuses on organic reactivity and visible light–mediated carbon−phosphorus bond forming reactions.

 

 

Julio Lloret-Fillol

Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol is ICREA Research Professor and group leader at Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), a center of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST). He graduated in Chemistry from the Universidad de Valencia in 2001, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 2006. After his Ph.D., he moved to the University of Heidelberg, where he stayed as a postdoctoral MEyC fellow and as a postdoctoral Marie Curie fellow. Since 2010, he has been working as an independent research leader at Universitat de Girona (Ramón y Cajal program). In 2014, he obtained a position as Young Research Group Leader at the Institut de Química Computational i Catàlisi (UdG). In November of the same year, he started his research group at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), and in 2015 he was appointed as ICREA research professor. He is the current recipient of the ERC Consolidator Grant (GREENLIGHT-REDCAT) and member of the European A-LEAF project. He has published more than 80 scientific papers and six book chapters, six patents, and delivered more than 80 invited talks and lectures. He has served as associate editor of RSC Advances in 2016.  He is mainly focused on designing new catalysts for sustainable synthesis of fuels and chemicals by exploring artificial photosynthetic schemes. To this end, his group pursuits the fundamental understanding of the operative mechanisms of both light-driving reductive transformations (water and CO2 reduction and solar chemicals production) and the water oxidation reaction. Currently, his research involves the study of well-defined coordination complexes, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, and mix metal oxides.

 

 

Manel Martinez

Prof. Manuel Martínez is the head of the Mecanismes de Reacció en Química Inorgànica group at the Universitat de Barcelona, which has an international projection of kinetico-mechanistic studies from an empirical perspective. The group is one of the promotors of the European Colloquium on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, which represents an effort to bring together the research groups involved in the area at the European level. The group's general research line is based on the adjustment of the reactivity of inorganic compounds via the fine-tuning of the reaction mechanisms. In this respect, some contributions in the following relevant areas have allowed the approach of the group towards its general goal:

  • Kinetico-mechanistic studies on activation processes of C-X bonds by PtII and PdII complexes.
  • Study of formation processes and redox behaviour of mixed-valence FeII/CoIII compounds with macrocyclic and bridging ligands having adjustable electronic properties.
  • Study of the steric and electronic influence on the substitution processes in organometallic compounds.
  • Kinetico-mechanistic study of the self-assembly of polymetallic supramolecular architectures containing different functionalities.
  • Study of the substitution mechanisms on complexes of CoIII and RuII with biologically relevant, nucleobase-derived ligands.

Clearly, the group is involved in highly multidisciplinary research lines, a fact that is specifically suited for future developments. In addition to the per se academic interest of these studies, it is obvious than a better knowledge of the mechanisms operating in a reaction has to lead to the general optimization of the processes. The group's general research project is based on, and intends to, an increase of the mechanistic information available on previously known reactions, as well as on some new processes specifically designed for this purpose.

 

 

Ainara Nova

Dr Ainara Nova got her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2008 under the supervision of Profs. Lledós and Ujaque. After a first posdoc of 2 years in Montpellier with Prof. Eisenstein, she went back to Spain for a second postdoc in ICIQ (Tarragona) in the group of Prof. Maseras. In 2012, she moved to Norway. Since then, she has worked at the University of Oslo, first as a postdoc with Prof. Tilset, at the the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and, from 2016, as independent researcher, at the Hylleraas Center for Quantum Molecular Science. During her career, Dr Nova has specialized in the computational study of reaction mechanisms with homogeneous catalysts, and more recently, with MOF-based heterogeneous catalysts. In particular, she has worked in reactions for the activation of small molecules and the formation of new C-C bonds in close collaboration with experimental groups. In 2016, she received a FRIPRO young talent grant for working on the rational catalyst design for converting CO2 into industrially relevant products. Since then, she has been actively working on this topic in collaboration with other computational and experimental groups. She is currently co-leading the Nordic consortium NordCO2.

 

 

Jana

Prof. Jana Roithová graduated in organic chemistry at Charles University in the Czech Republic (1998). Her PhD thesis focused on reaction dynamics (2003, Prof. Herman) and during the postdoctoral stay she learned mass spectrometry techniques (Prof. Schwarz, TU Berlin). Her independent career started in 2007 at the Charles University, where she was appointed as a professor in 2014. In 2018, she moved to Radboud University in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, where she serves as a chair professor for spectroscopy and catalysis. She has obtained several prizes, e.g. Ignaz L Lieben Award from the Austrian Academy of Sciences or Rudolf Lukeš prize from the Czech Chemical Society. Her research is focused on development of techniques to study highly reactive ions in the gas phase. She uses these techniques to study reaction mechanisms, with a particular focus on reactive intermediates in metal-catalysed reactions.

 

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