This year we had the honor of hosting Aurore and Antoine for four days of research work in our labs! These third year bachelor students worked under the direct guidance of Yuesu and Anita to develop their projects. Aside from being grateful for their hard work, we’re happy to have spent some fun times with together after work too.
We wish them the best for the final months of their bachelor’s program here at ULiege!
Work has begun in the lab for the organization of the 2024 edition of the Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium (BOSS). Next event will be held in the wonderful city of Liege. With Dr. J.C. Monbaliu leading the organization and Dr. Frank Glorius as symposium chair, the 2024 BOSS promises to be a memorable event.
You can take a look (and share) the flyer here.
Stay tuned for more information coming soon!
It’s now been a few months since we inaugurated the website for FloW4all! If you haven’t yet seen it, you can take a look here: http://flow4all.uliege.be
The FloW4all service platform manages the collaborations between CiTOS and external partners. These partnerships are often with industrial collaborators interested in exploring the benefits flow chemistry may bring to their processes.
Take a look at the new website to see what we can offer!
Join us in celebrating Florian Barbaz, new PhD student here at CiTOS! Florian is part of the D Carbonize doctoral network. This EU funded project aims at the valorization of biocarbon and its applications for the chemical and polymer industry. Florian is part of project DC4, which focuses on the design of robust and modular homogeneous/heterogeneous catalytic routes, including continuous flow approaches, for the transformation of biocarbon into functional bio-based monomers.
Florian will be sharing his PhD research time between CiTOS, the University of Groningen with Paolo Pescarmona, and followed by a period at Corning!
You can read more about the project online! https://dcarbonizeproject.eu/
We welcome Sophie Bianchi to the group, for a six-month special project. Sophie graduated from Law School (ULiège) in 2020, and dedicated three years as an Assistant to Prof. J.-F. Gerkens, specializing in Roman Law and Comparative Law. During her research stay at CiTOS, she will explore the influence of the legal EU framework on Research in Organic Chemistry. Her focus centers on Dual Use and Psychotropic compounds in collaboration with Prof. Q. Michel from the European Studies Unit at ULiège. An extra special welcome to our first non-scientist member!
Urte Sachleviciute, coming from the Kauno technologijos universitetas (Kaunas University of Technology, KTU),
has joined the lab for a 3-month internship! She’s a senior PhD student from Kaunas, Lithuania, with a strong background in organic synthesis. Now she will be gaining experience in flow chemistry while working on an industrial project here at CiTOS. We hope she enjoys her time in Liège and in the lab, and wish her the best in her flow chem project!
BTW, relationships between KTU and CiTOS are growing! Stay tuned for more news of our partnerships.
Since the beginning of October, we have Olga and Miriana from Università degli studi Aldo Moro, in Bari. They will be staying 5 months at CiTOS to perform research conductive to their master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology.
They will be joining on-going projects here in the lab under the mentorship of Dr. Anita Tsai and Dr. Diana Silva. We wish them both the best in this new adventure.
CiTOS member Sébastien Renson‘s received the Solvay prize for this Master thesis! The prize rewards the four best master dissertations in the country and was officially granted during the SRC 2023 Scientific Day. On this day, Sébastien delivered an oral presentation on his award-winning work, which was done in collaboration with his mentors Yuesu Chen, Claire Muzyka, and Jean-Christophe Monbaliu.
Part of his work has already been published and is available online from Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Read it here.
A huge congratulations to Sébastien and to the lab on producing such fine work in flow chemistry!
The Aloïse Benoît Coomans Foundation from ULiège’s
patrimony rewards significant advances in the field of Organic Chemistry. This year, the prize goes to CiTOS member Pauline Bianchi.
Pauline’s work proposes an original approach to develop new synthetic pathways, based on the use of continuous flow coupled with predictive numerical simulation methods. This is a prize awards around EUR 10,000 for the pursuit of her research career. Congrats on this new achievement!
Last September 21 was a huge day for CiTOS! We took this day to celebrate 10 years since the lab first opened with a full day of activities. The mornin
g started at Maredsous Abbey, where we had a tour of the cheese and beer factory, and a magnificent lunch, followed by a guided tour of the abbey. The lunch break was also the moment to present Jean-Christophe with the many gifts that all lab members had planned to celebrate the occasion.
After many laughs and many beers at Maredsous, we headed out to Dinant, where the whole group took part of a laser game. Each person was equipped with a laser gun and divided into two groups, and out we went into fields and mud.
It was a very memorable day for all of us here at CiTOS, celebrating all the achievements of these past 10 years and excited for the years to come!
