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Groups from Strasbourg
Prof. Luisa De Cola
Luisa De Cola received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Messina in 1983 with Prof. Raffaello Romeo. She continue her academic education with a post-doctoral fellow at the Virginia Commonwelth University. After few years as a researcher at the F.R.A.E. Institute of Bologna and University of Fruiburg, she became Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna in 1990. In the following years she continue her academic career as Full Professor at the universities of Amsterdam, Munster and Twente. In 2011 she received the IUPAC prize for the most distinguished women in the field of chemistry and chemical engineering. In 2012 Prof. Luisa De Cola joined the University of Strasbourg, where she obtained the ISIS Chair in Supramolecular and Biomaterial Chemistry. Her research interests focus on two main areas: luminescent and electro-luminescent materials for optical and electroluminescent devices; nanomaterials for imaging diagnostics and therapy. She has been invited to more than 150 conferences as plenary (Gordon Conferences, ESF, Solvay Conference 2011, Accademia dei Lincei, Bürgenstock Conference 2012, E-MRS 2012…) or invited speaker and she has delivered more than 200 talks at schools or in several universities all over the world.
Prof. Michael J. Chetcuti
The research of Prof. M. Chetcuti group lies at the frontier of synthetic organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry as well as of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. With the aim of discovering environmentally and economically acceptable processes, they are particularly interested in making or breaking C–C, C-X (X = Cl, Br) or C–Y bonds (Y = H, N, O, P) within the coordination sphere of mono- or bimetallic transition metal organometallic complexes. Some of the current projects include: the study and the development of Nickel(II) complexes bearing N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) ligands for homogeneous catalysis, Heterobimetallic complexes and Metallation of calixarenes.
Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn
Although he considered studying philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, Jean-Marie Lehn realized he wanted to pursue a research career in organic chemistry after taking courses in physical, chemical and natural sciences and attending the lectures of Prof. Guy Ourisson. He eventually joined Ourisson's lab, working his way to the Ph.D. from 1960 to 1963. He subsequently spent a year in the laboratory of Prof. Robert B. Woodward in Harvard working on the total synthesis of Vitamin B12. He later returned in Strasbourg, where his most famous reasearch area, supramolecular chemistry, started with the design of cation cryptands in 1967. Organic, inorganic and biological aspects of this field were explored and investigations are continuing. In 1976 another line of research was started in the area of artificial photosynthesis and the storage and chemical conversion of solar energy. He was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. The scientific work, performed over twenty years with about 150 collaborators from over twenty countries, has been described in about 400 publications and review papers. Over the years I was visiting professor at other institutions, the E.T.H. in Zürich, the Universities of Cambridge, Barcelona, Frankfurt. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. His research covers covers topics like photoactive and electroactive cryptates, molecular recognition and molecular receptors, anion coordination chemistry, supramolecular catalysis, self-assembly and self-organization and more.
Prof. Paolo Samorí
Paolo Samorì is Distinguished Professor (PRCE) and director of the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) of the Université de Strasbourg (UdS) where he is also head of the Nanochemistry Laboratory. He is also Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). In 2000 he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Humboldt University Berlin (Prof. J.P. Rabe). He was permanent research scientist in Bologna from 2001 till 2008, and Visiting Professor at ISIS from 2003 til 2008. He has published >160 papers on applications of scanning probe microscopies beyond imaging, hierarchical self-assembly of hybrid architectures at surfaces, supramolecular electronics, and the fabrication of organic-based nanodevices. He has been awarded various prizes, including the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists 2001, the “Nicolò Copernico” award 2009 (Italy), the ERC starting grant 2010 and the Silver Medal of CNRS 2012. The research of the Nanochemistry Laboratory is focused on unravelling and controlling the architecture vs. function relationship in complex and multicomponent supramolecular graphene-based and conjugated materials for organic electronics, to ultimately fabricate prototypes of (supra)molecular nanodevices operating at surfaces.
Prof. Nicolas Giuseppone
Nicolas Giuseppone received his Ph.D. (2000) with European Label from Orsay University, working in the laboratory of Professor H. B. Kagan. His Ph.D. thesis was related to the use of samarium diiodide in diastereoselective and enantioselective transformations. He then joined the group of Prof. K. C. Nicolaou at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) as a postdoctoral associate, where he was involved in the first total synthesis of Diazonamide A, a highly potent antitumoral metabolite. In 2002, he was hired by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as a research scientist and joined the laboratory of Prof. J.-M. Lehn at ISIS in Strasbourg. He developed there various new approaches to extend the concepts of dynamic combinatorial chemistry in the field of materials science. He defended his Habilitation (HDR) in 2005 under the guidance of Jean-Marie Lehn and was elected Full Professor of Chemistry in 2007 at the University of Strasbourg. In February 2008, he joined the new Institut Charles Sadron at the Cronenbourg Campus to create the SAMS research group. His current research interests range from organic synthesis and supramolecular chemistry to soft-matter materials science. In 2010, Nicolas Giuseppone has been awarded the ERC StG from the European Research Council.
