Group Events

2021

  • [December] The group welcomes Dr. Sarah Desmons as a new postdoc.
  • [November] The group welcomes Dr. Nanjun Chen as a new postdoc.
  • [November] Congratulations to Weiyan Ni who has just successfully complete his public presentation of PhD work and received his PhD degree.
  • [October] The lab welcomes Josephine Lederballe Meibom and Miyeon Chang as new PhD students.
  • [September] The lab welcomes Ines Lopez Martinez and Damien Chen to conduct their master projects.
  • [September] Congratulations to Xiangli Yi who has just successfully complete his public presentation of PhD work and received his PhD degree.
  • [August] The lab welcomes Nadia Yasmina Ben Sayed as a PhD student.
  • [July] The lab welcomes Weijin Wang as a PhD student and Dr. Wenchao Mao as a postdoc.
  • [April] The lab welcomes Dr. Chao Fan as a new postdoc.
  • [February] The lab welcomes Miyeon Chang, Harry Mccaughey, Maël Djaïd to conduct their master projects and Arthur Blumenstein as an apprentice.
  • [January] Congratulations to Lichen Bai who has just successfully complete his public presentation of PhD work and received his PhD degree.
  • [January] Welcome to new PhD student Lara Lavrencic.

2020

  • [November] Congratulations to Guido Barzano for a successful public presentation of his PhD thesis before receiving his doctoral degree.
  • [October] We welcome Dr. Wenhao Ren as a new postdoc. Dr. Ren is supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship; he will work on electrocatalytic CO2 reduction.
  • [October] Congratulations to Murat Alkan-Zambada for a successful public presentation of his PhD thesis before receiving his doctoral degree.
  • [September] Congratulations to Runze Mao for a successful public presentation of his PhD thesis before receiving his doctoral degree.
  • [September] Congratulations to Aliki Moysiadou for a successful public presentation of her PhD thesis before receiving her doctoral degree.
  • [August] Congratulations to Marten Ploeger for a successful public presentation of his PhD thesis before receiving his doctoral degree.

2019

  • [August] Congratulations to Laurent Liardet for a successful public presentation of his PhD thesis before receiving his doctoral degree.
  • [January] The lab welcomes Dr. Mahbod Heidari as a postdoc engineer. Dr. Heidari will work on the ERC Proof-of-Concept project to develop a thermal water purification system.

2017

  • [November ] The lab welcomes Dr. Chao Hu as a visiting scholar. Dr. Hu is currently a lecturer in Xi’an Jiaotong University in China.
  • [November ] The lab welcomes Dr. Seunghwa Lee as a new postdoc. Dr. Lee received a BE from Inha University and a PhD from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea.
  • [October ] The lab welcomes Albert Daubry as a new PhD student. Albert received his BS and MS degrees from EPFL.
  • [October ] The lab welcomes Dr. Deyun Qian as a new postdoctoral scholar. Deyun received his PhD from East China Normal University (Shanghai) and did a postdoc in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
  • [October ] The lab welcomes Dr. Zhikun Zhang as a new postdoctoral scholar. Zhikun just received his PhD from Peking University.
  • [September] The lab welcomes Prof. Liviu Mirica from Washington University St. Louis , USA as a visiting professor.
  • [August] The lab welcomes Mr. Xiangli Yi as a new PhD student. Xiangli just received his M.S. and B.S. degrees from Tsinghua University in China.
  • [August] The lab welcomes Prof. Jordan Katz from Denison University, USA as a visiting professor.
  • [July] The lab welcomes Mr. J.J. Marie from University of Southampton, UK, for a master project.
  • [July] The lab welcomes Dr. Renyi Shi as a postdoctoral scholar. Dr. Shi just received a PhD in organic chemistry from Wuhan University, China.
  • [May] The lab welcomes Dr. Alberto BATTISTEL as a postdoctoral scholar. Alberto received his PhD degree from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and worked as a postdoc in the Girault group at EPFL. He will work on the ERC Proof-of-Concept Project.
  • [May] The lab welcomes Dr. Huijie Pan as a postdoctoral scholar. Huijie just received his PhD degree from the National University of Singapore.
  • [March] The lab welcomes Mr. Teng Wang from Peking University as a short-term visiting PhD student. Teng will stay with us for 3 months.
  • [March] The lab welcomes Weiyan Ni as a PhD student. Weiyan just received a master’s degree from the EPFL.
  • [February] The lab welcomes Jonathan Balon as an apprentice in training.
  • [February] The group welcomes three master students, Tim Pfister, Adrian Frey, and Henglu Xu to conduct their semester projects.
  • [February] The group welcomes Andre Darù from KU Leuven for a secondment of 1 month in the context of a Marie Skodowska-Curie Initial Training Network project NoNoMeCat.

2016

  • [November] The lab welcomes Mr. Guido Barzanò as a PhD student. Guido just received a MS degree from University of Pavia, Italy.
  • [November] The lab welcomes Dr. Jun Gu as a postdoctoral scholar. Jun received a BS and PhD degrees from Peking University, China.
  • [November] The lab welcomes Mr. Kongliang Xu as a visiting PhD student. Kongliang is currently a PhD student in Jilin University, China.
  • [October] The lab welcomes Murat Alkan as a PhD Student. Murat just obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Basel.
  • [October] The lab welcomes Dr. Lei Zhang as a postdoctoral scholar. Dr. Zhang just obtained a PhD degree from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China.
  • [September] The lab welcomes Weiyan Ni (EPFL) to conduct his master’s projects.
  • [September] Congratulations to Thomas Di Franco who just successfully defended his PhD thesis and received a D.Sc degree from EPFL! Good luck for the future.
  • [September] The lab welcomes Mr. Christopher Bamforth as a project student. Chris is an exchange student at EPFL, coming from the University of Glasgow, UK. He will conduct a 9-month research placement with us.
  • [September] The lab welcomes Mr. Lichen Bai as a new PhD student. Lichen did his B.S. and M.S study in the Dalian Univerisity of Technology, China.
  • [July] Congratulations to Ivan Buslov who has successfully defended his PhD thesis and received a doctor of science degree from EPFL. Good luck for the future.
  • [July] The lab welcomes Aliki Moysiadou and Runze Mao as new PhD students. Aliki obtained a MS degree from National Technological University Athens, and Runze obtained a MS degree from Peking University.
  • [June] The lab welcomes Marten Ploeger as a new PhD student. Marten just completed his master’s degree from VU University of Amsterdam.
  • [May] Xile Hu is promoted to Full Professor at EPFL, effective June 1st, 2016. See news.
  • [May] Congratulations to Carlos Morales-Guio who has successfully defended his PhD thesis and received a doctor of science degree from EPFL. Good luck for the future.
  • [February] The lab welcome master students for their semester projects: Albert Daubry, Valentin Queloz, Weiyan Ni, Helene Meng.
  • [January] We welcome Ms. Elitsa Petkucheva from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as an exchange PhD student. Elitsa will stay with us for a year, supported by a fellowship from the Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation.

2015

♦ [September] Congratulations to Simona Mazza who has successfully defended her thesis and received a Degree of Doctor of Science from EPFL. Good luck for the future.
♦ [September] The lab welcomes Dr. Xiang Xu, who has received a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for 2015-2016. Dr. Xu received a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
♦ [August] Congratulations to Pablo Perez Garcia, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and received a degree of Docotor of Science from EPFL. Good luck for the future.
♦ [August] Congratulations to YeonJi Oh, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis and received a degree of Docotor of Science from EPFL. Good luck for the future.
♦ [August] The group welcomes Laurent Liardet as a Ph.D. student. Laurent just received his Master’s degree from EPFL.
♦ [June] Congratulations to Gerald Bauer, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and received a degree of Docotor of Science from EPFL. Good luck for the future.
♦ [February] We welcome Sébastien Keller as an apprentice.
♦ [February] We welcome Sophia Stark and Marko Stojanovic for their semester projects in our lab.

2014

♦ [September] The lab welcomes Laurent Liardet for a master’s thesis project
♦ [August] The lab welcomes Ms. Peng Wang from University of New South Wales (Australia) as an exchange Ph.D. student.
♦ [April] The lab welcomes Jeanne Becouse from Ecole National Supérieure de Chimie de Paris for a master’s project.
♦ [February] The lab welcomes Laurent Liardet and Céline Treiber for master semester project, and Alexandre Epenoy as an apprentice.
♦ [January] The lab welcomes Dr. Hasan Medhi as a postdoctoral scholar. Dr. Medhi comes to us in the framework of a Sci-Ex Swiss-Hungary collaboration.

2013

♦ [October] The lab welcomes Carlos Morales as a Ph.D. student. Carlos obtained his B.S. degree from Osaka University (Japan) and his M.S. degree from EPFL, both in Chemical Engineering.
♦ [September] The lab welcomes Sébastien Guidoux and Mickael Montandon to carry out their master thesis projects.  
♦ [September] The lab welcomes Martin Hansen from Danish Technical University as an exchange Ph.D. student. Martin is a physics Ph.D student in the group of Prof. Jan Rossemeisl, working on DFT calculations of surface catalysts.  
♦ [September] The lab welcomes Lucas-Alexandre Stern as a Ph.D. student. Lucas-Alexandre obtained a M.S. degree from EPFL earlier this year.
♦ [July] The lab welcomes Madeline Yin to carry out her semester project.
♦ [July] The lab welcomes Dr. Tao Xu as a postdoctoral scholar. Dr. Xu received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in 2012.
♦ [June] The lab welcomes Dr. Chi Wai Cheung as a postdoctoral scholar. Dr. Song received a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry in 2011 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joined us after a postdoc stay in MIT.
♦ [May] The lab welcomes Dr. Fang Song as a postdoctoral scholar. Dr. Song received a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China.
♦ [March] The lab welcomes Carlos Morales as a master’s thesis student, and Nicolas Boutin as an apprentice.
♦ [February] The lab welcomes Mathias Mamboury and Sébastien Guidoux to carry out their semester projects.
♦ [February] The lab welcomes Dr. Ligang Feng as a postdoctoral scholar. Dr. Feng recently received his Ph.D. degree in electrochemistry from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science.
♦ [January] The lab welcomes Mr. Fedor Zhurkin as a Ph.D. student. Fedor just received his master’s degree from the Moscow State University.
♦ [January] The lab welcomes Dr. Hongling Gao from Tianjin University as a visiting scholar.

2012

♦ [November] Congratulations to Peng Ren who just successfully delivered his public defense and was awarded a D.Sc degree from EPFL. Well done Dr. Ren and good luck in Oxford!
♦ [September] The lab welcomes Celine Monnard and Laurent Joye for carrying out their master thesis projects.
♦ [September] The lab welcomes Mr. Thomas Di Franco as a new Ph.D. student. Thomas came from France and obtained his engineering degree from CPE Lyon and Master’s degree from Université Lyon 1. He did his master’s project in our lab.
♦ [July] Congratulations to Daniel Merki who has just defended his Ph.D. thesis work. Well done Dr. Merki
♦ [July] The lab welcomes Mr. Ivan Buslov as a new Ph.D. student. Ivan came from Russia, and obtained his diploma from the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
♦ [July] Congratulations to Jesus Ruiz who has just defended his master thesis work.
♦ [February] The group welcomes six master students for semester and master projects: Nicolas Chabloz, Thomas Di Frano, Gaelle Lapicorey, Stern Lucas-Alexandre, Alessio Orsino, Jesus Ruiz.
♦ [January] The lab welcomes Dr. Katherin Schultz as a postdoctoral scholar. Kate just received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle.

2011

♦ [September] The lab welcomes Yeon-Ji Oh and Simona Mazza as Ph.D. students. Yeon-Ji came from Korea and Simona came from Italy.
♦ [June] Congratulations to Oleg Vechorkin who has just defended his dissertation and obtained his D.Sc degree. Dr. Vechorkin will soon start his postdoc work at MIT (with Tim Jamison).
♦ [June] The lab welcomes Gerald Bauer as a Ph.D. student. An austrian native, Gerald received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Vienna University of Technology.
♦ [June] The lab welcomes Aurélien Godinat for a 3-month internship. Aurélien just finished his master’s study at EPFL.
♦ [May] The group welcomes Dr. Matthew Wodrich as a postdoctoral scholar.
♦ [March] The lab welcomes Pablo Marcelo Perez Garcia as a Ph.D. student. Pablo received his B.S. and M.S. in chemistry from University of Geneva.
♦ [February] Kim Von Allmen successfully defended his master thesis!
♦ [February] The lab welcome Rovelli Lorenzo, Sonego Giona, and Luiser Nicolas to carry out their semester projects.

2010
♦ [June] Congratulations to Oleg Vechorkin who is one of the runners-up for the Reaxys Ph.D. Prize 2010. Oleg is invited to a special award symposium at the 3ed EuChemMs Chemistry Congress in August. See details and press release.
♦ [April] Dr. Stéphane Fierro joined the lab for short-term postdoctoral research. Stéphane just received his Ph.D. from EPFL. He arrived on April 1st. Welcome, Stéphane!
♦ [February] The lab welcomes Natacha Aubry, Rima Drissi, Julien Falcy, and Kim Von Allmen to carry out their master semester projects.
♦ [January] Jan Breitenfeld joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Jan obtained his diploma from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He arrived on January 15th, 2010.

2009
♦ [September] The lab welcomes Mattia Palla from Italy as an Erasmus exchange student.
♦ [September] Congratulations to Oleg Vechorkin who just won a poster award in the 2009 CUSO summer school in Inorganic Chemistry.
♦ [August] Matthias Urfer did a summer intern in our lab.
♦ Congratulations to Oleg Vechorkin who just won a competitive Student Travel Award from the Swiss Academy of Science, Platform Chemistry.
♦ Daniel Merki joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Daniel studied at ETH Zurich where he obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry. He arrived on April 1st. Welcome, Daniel!
♦ [February] Ms. Delphine Barmaz starts her master’s semester project in our lab. Welcome, Delphine.
♦ [January] The lab welcomes Ms. Valérie Proust as an apprentice.
♦ on January 15, Heron Vrubel joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Heron holds both Brazilian and Hungarian passports. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Universidade Federal do Paraná- Curitiba in Brasil. Welcome, Heron!

2008
♦ Mr. Peng Ren joined the lab as a Ph.D. student. Peng received his B.S. degree from the Nankai University in China and he arrived on November 15. Welcome, Peng!
♦ The lab welcomes Dr. Chen Dafa as a postdoctoral scholar. Dafa received both his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Nankai University in China and he joined us on September 1.
♦ Francoise Borcard and Julie Risse carried out semester projects in our lab.

2007
♦ On October 1, Blaise Obrist joined our lab as a Ph.D. student. A Swiss native, Blaise studied at EPFL, where he obtained a B.S. in Molecular Science (2005) and M.S. in Molecular and Biological Chemistry (2007). His master’s project was on the total synthesis of aaptamine. Welcome, Blaise!
♦ On August 15, Oleg Vechorkin joined our lab as a Ph.D. student. A citizen of Ukraine, Oleg obtained his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in chemistry (with honors) from Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine). His previous accomplishments include a silver metal in the International Chemistry Olympiad (2002), scholarships from the President of Ukraine (2002 and 2003), and a bronze price in the Ukrainian national swimming competition (for under 14). Welcome, Oleg!
♦ On August 4, Aswin Yellepeddi joined our lab as a summer intern. Aswin just finished his first year study in the chemistry program at EPFL. Welcome, Aswin!
♦ On July 15, Dr. Zsolt Csok joined our lab as a postdoctoral collaborator. A citizen of Hungary, Dr. Csok obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from University of Veszprém (Hungary) in 2002. Before coming to EPFL, he conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of Salerno (Italy) and the University of Madeira (Portugal). Welcome, Zsolt!
♦ On July 4, Prof. Xile Hu was formally appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor of chemistry by the board of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. See press release: http://actualites.epfl.ch/presseinfo-com?id=477