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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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),
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.