Dr. Jun-Ho Yum received the Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Republic of Korea) in 2005. He worked on interfacial dynamics study of dye-sensitized solar cells in Osaka University (Japan), and on polymer electrolyte for solar cells in Korean Institute of Science and Technology (Rep. Korea) in 2005. From 2005 to 2013, he has worked in LPI (Prof. Michael Graetzel’s group) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). From 2013 to 2015, he worked as senior R&D engineer at thin film devices sector in CSEM PV-center (Switzerland). After that, he has joined in LIMNO (Prof. Kevin Sivula’s group) at EPFL in 2015 and has worked as a senior scientist from 2021. His fields of interest are nano-materials and interfaces, novel semiconductors, layered materials, new hybrid solar cells, tandem solar cells, photoelectrochemistry and photocatalysis. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed scientific papers (h-index of 62) and has been selected as a global highly cited researcher from 2014 to 2019.

Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidt studied chemistry at the University RWTH Aachen in Germany. In 1994, he finished his PhD at RWTH on crystal structure prediction of organometallic molecular compounds. From 1995 to 2002 he worked in industry at the companies Hoechst and Clariant in Frankfurt/Germany, where he performed research on crystal engineering and
polymorphism studies of industrial organic pigments. In 2002 he became professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt. His main research interests are crystallography and crystal structure determination of nanocrystalline organic compounds by X-ray powder diffraction, especially on organic pigments and pharmaceuticals, including various method developments. His visit in Torino concerns the cooperation on combining X-ray powder diffraction (Frankfurt), solid-state NMR (Torino) and crystal structure prediction (Torino and Frankfurt) for the investigation of organic crystal structures.

Dr. Erik Cerrato obtained his Laurea degree in Materials Science from the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy (2011-2016). In 2019 he achieved the PhD in Chemistry and Materials Science still at the University of Turin under the supervision of Professor Maria Cristina Paganini, where he also spent the first year as Post-doc. Since October 2020 he joined the EPR and ENDOR group at Cardiff as Post-doc on a project founded by the EPSRC with PI Dr Emma Richards.

Studi e gradi 2007-2010: licenza di base in Chimica Fisica presso la Facoltà di Scienze di Biserta con la menzione abbastanza bene. 2010-2012: Master di ricerca in chimica organica presso la Facoltà di Scienze di Biserta con la menzione abbastanza bene. 2012-2018: Dottorato in Chimica presso la Facoltà di Scienze di Biserta con una menzione molto onorevole. tirocinio, esperienze professionali e produzione scientifica 2012-2013: tirocinio M2 presso il Laboratorio di composti etero-organici e materiali nanostrutturati presso la Facoltà di Scienze di Biserta, sull'azione del reagente di Lawesson sugli idrazoni chetonitrili: sintesi di nuovi 1,2,3 derivati -diazafosfoline, supervisionato dal Pr. Soufiane TOUIL. Esperienze professionali : 2014-2015: insegnante part-time nel lavoro pratico (destinato agli studenti con licenza di base in fisica e chimica): disciplina: chimica generale. 2015-2016: insegnante part-time di esercitazioni pratiche e tutorial (destinato a studenti con licenza di base in scienze della vita): disciplina: chimica organica. 2016-2017: insegnante part-time di lavoro pratico ed esercitazioni (destinato agli studenti con licenza applicata in chimica fine): Disciplina: chimica organica. Produzione scientifica "Una sintesi chemio- e diastereoselettiva in un passaggio operativamente semplice di cis-5-idrossi-2-fosfono-2,5-diidrofurani" pubblicata su Organic Preparations and Procedures International (2018, 50, 432–440). "Struttura dei raggi X, analisi della superficie di Hirshfeld e studio DFT di alcuni cis-5 - idrossi - 2-fosfono-2,5-diidrofurani" pubblicati su Chemical Data Collections (2018, 17–18, 95–110).
Tecniche di caratterizzazione In teoria, diverse tecniche come: UV-visibile e FT-IR, spettrometria di massa, risonanza magnetica nucleare (NMR).

I am currently a Postdoc researcher in the group led by Prof. Sasho Gligorovski at Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). My research interests aim to elucidate the kinetics, mechanisms, and photochemistry of gas phase, aqueous phase and heterogeneous reactions occurring at various surfaces of environmental relevance (air-sea interface, indoor surfaces and aerosols). I am doing a collaborative project with Prof. Davide Vione to estimate the formation yields of some unsaturated compounds during the heterogeneous photochemic reactions between air and sea water in real atmosphere by model.

Senior Researcher Agriculture Researcher Organization Volcani Center. Head Unit of Weed Science and Scientific manager of Northern R & D 

Luca Salassa obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. R. Gobetto. Later, he worked as postdoc at the University of Montana (USA, Profs. J.B.A. Ross and E. Rosenberg) and at the University of Warwick (UK, Prof. P.J. Sadler, MC-IF fellow). In 2012, he was awarded a Ramón y Cajal fellowship to join CIC biomaGUNE (San Sebastián, Spain) and to start his independent career. Since 2017, Luca Salassa is Ikerbasque Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (San Sebastián, Spain) where his group develops new photochemistry strategies for the activation of biologically relevant metal complexes.

My scientific trajectory has mainly focused on the application of multi-enzyme systems for synthetic and analytical chemistry application by harnessing the excellent properties (activity, specificity and selectivity) of enzymes; the biological catalysts

My scientific trajectory has resulted in 96 peer reviewed articles published in international journals (82% in Q1) and 8 book chapters (ResearcherID: D-3462-2014). Furthermore, I have disseminated my scientific results in 23 national and international conferences with 14 oral contributions; 4 of them were invited talks. Beaside, I am supervisor of 4 doctoral theses as well as three master theses. My research has had a significant impact on the field of the biocatalysis as demonstrated by the more than 3000 total cites (33 cites/ article) with and H-index of 31. The average impact factor of my articles published as corresponding author (30 out of 96) is 4,7.

B.Sc.(Hons I), University of Queensland, 1997
Ph.D. University of Queensland, 2002
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Nottingham, 2002-2004
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Exeter / Nottingham , 2004-2007
Teaching Fellow in Organic Chemistry, Nottingham, 2006-2007
Lecturer, University of Sydney, 2007-2011
Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, 2012 - 2015
Associate Professor, 2016 -

Research interests

Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Reaction development
Total synthesis

We are interested in developing new reactions, and applying known reactions in novel ways, in an effort to reduce the complexity of natural product synthesis.

Expanding the scope of the Stetter reaction: The 'umpolung' addition of aldehydes onto unsaturated carbonyl compounds is an under-utilised method for carbon-carbon bond construction. We are investigating variants of this reaction that allow for the rapid construction of fused-ring systems from simple starting materials. We are also exploring the ability of the Stetter reaction to install new stereocentres under substrate control.

Palladium-catalysed tetrahydrofuran synthesis: Numerous natural products and biologically active compounds contain a substituted tetrahydrofuran unit. We are employing a short, high-yielding, palladium-catalysed protocol to synthesis a series of these natural products.

Ligand design for new reactions: Mimicking nature's ability to incorporate stereogenic elements into substrate compounds is a major driving force in contemporary chemistry. We are involved in the rational design and efficient synthesis of ligands that will allow new reactions to be accomplished.
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