The group in Spring 2025. From left to right, back to front: Stefano, Alexandre, Yuji, Carlo, Duncan, Josh, Valentas, Clément, Adriana, Annick, Jerome, Emma, Najung, Lucie, Hugo, Nina, Helena, Christine.
The Group in Spring 2025
The group in Spring 2025. From left to right, back to front: Stefano, Alexandre, Yuji, Carlo, Duncan, Josh, Valentas, Clément, Adriana, Annick, Jerome, Emma, Najung, Lucie, Hugo, Nina, Helena, Christine.
LATEST NEWS
September 1: Welcome back to the lab to Lucie Orain and Daphne Lucidarme for their PhD! Welcome to Alex-Mihai Simionescu from the University of Groningen for his master’s thesis.
August 29: The review of Xingyu on the group’s work on peptide/protein functionalization and macrocyclization has now been published in open access at Acc. Chem. Res. (DOI: /10.1021/acs.accounts.5c00451)
August 29: Emma Robert successfully defended her PhD thesis. She is the PhD student number 32 to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
August 12: The LCSO Summer Group Outing took place in Les Diablerets and Glacier 3000!
July 10: Emma has successfully passed her final PhD exam. Congratulations!
June 27: Congrats to Christine and Josh for winning a poster presentation award at the 8th International Conference on Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry!
June 20: Congrats to Alex, Christine, and Helena for receiving the SCNAT Travel Award 2025.
June 17: The review of Pierre covering the azidofuntionalization of alkenes is now available in Chemistry Europe (DOI: /10.1002/ceur.202500140)
June 10: Josh was selected as a Doctoral Scholar in the Croucher Class of 2025. Congratulations!
June 5: Xingyu’s work with Wei Cai, Beat Fierz, and Anne-Sophie Chauvin on peptide-cyanoarene photocatalysts for biological labeling is now accepted in Angewandte Chemie! (DOI: /10.1002/anie.202507602)
May 28: BCP-EBXs! New hypervalent iodine reagents combining EBX and BCP motifs, by Najung and the prelimiary work of Jonas and Elija, has just been accepted in Angewandte Chemie! (DOI: /10.1002/anie.202508404)
May 27: Tin Nguyen successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the PhD student number 31 to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
May 22: The work of Emma on the diastereoselective and enantioselective addition of thiols onto cyclobutenes using bifunctional organocatalysts is now accepted in Chem. Sci. (DOI: /10.1039/D5SC01727K)
April 25: Pierre Palamini successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the PhD student number 30 to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
April 1: Welcome to Annick Delmonaco, our new administrative assistant, and to Carolin Veras, who started her apprenticeship!
March 26: Farewell to Véronique Bujard, the administrative assistant at LCSO for the last 13 years. A huge thank you!
March 3: Welcome to our new master thesis students, Hugo Senelle from ENSCM and Lucie Orain from EPFL.
January 31: Vladyslav Smyrnov successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the twenty-ninth PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
January 31: Congrats to Pierre for winning a poster presentation award at the Swiss Industrial Chemistry Symposium 2025!
January 31: Congrats to Christine for winning a poster presentation award at the 2nd EFMC International Symposium on Chemical Biology!
January 29: Pierre has successfully passed his final PhD exam. Congratulations!
January 20: Carlo has successfully passed his candidacy exam. Congratulations!
January 18: Congrats to Josh for winning a poster presentation award at the Swiss Snow Symposium 2025!
January 8: Tin has successfully passed his final PhD exam. Congratulations!
January 2: Now in Angewandte Chemie, the photocatalyzed azidofunctionalization of alkenes developed by Pierre together with Alexandre. (DOI: /10.1002/anie.202420455)