2024 Master students!

Arthur, Cassian, and Nicolas! These three young new members of CiTOS will be working on their master’s thesis during the next year. Arthur will be teaming up with Hubert to work on the synthesis of APIs from biobased sources. Nicolas is now part of the Wel T research team, along with Réjane and Jingxing. And Cassain is tackling new reactions using dinitrogen trioxide with Yuesu. They’ve been off to a good start and are a great addition to the CiTOS team! We have high hopes for our young new members!

Réjane and Jingxing join the lab!

Last January, we had the arrival of two new PhD students at the lab! Réjane and Jingxing are teaming up to work on a Wel Research Institute funded project to develop the synthesis of APIs. However, the crucial aspect of this project is the capacity to predict reaction conditions based on DFT calculations and machine learning, which will be the main goal of Jingxing’s thesis work. On the other hand, Réjane will focus on implementing reaction conditions in an in-house built automation system.

It’s a challenging project, with a high potential impact for the future of flow chemistry. Stay tuned to hear more updates on this work!

 

JC at the Flow Chemistry Society

Flow Chemistry Europe, the meeting of the the Flow Chemistry Society took place last week in Malaga, Spain! JC was there to present some of the latest work from the lab. We encourage you to go to the official website and check out the photos https://flowchemistryeurope.com/.

Aside from a wonderful conference, the FCE had a beautiful venue. We’re happy to share with our followers some of the nice pictures that JC took during that trip. 

Bachelor students intern at CiTOS!

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!

The 2024 Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium (BOSS)

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!

FloW4all gets a website

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!

Welcome Florian!

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/

Presenting Sophie Bianchi

Urte joins for an Erasmus+ internship

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.

Miriana and Olga join CiTOS for their master thesis

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.