Guillaume has set off to the USA, in the Abolhasani Lab, at the North Carolina State University (NCSU). He’ll be working for 3 months there on the self-optimizing reactions through Bayesian optimization applied to CdSe quantum dots synthesis. We’re very happy for this great new opportunity, we wish Guillaume the much success and eagerly wait for his return to CiTOS.
Romain was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Belgian American Education Foundation (B.A.E.F).
The BAEF grant will trigger his relocation to Stanford within the research group of Prof. Robert M. Waymouth. Congrats, Romain !
Sadly, on April 15th, it was time to say goodbye to Carlotta. She has since returned to the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy) where she continues to work on her dissertation project, under the guidance of Dr. Maurizio Selva. We wish her continued success!
You can keep updated on her progress through ResearchGate.
Members of the lab participated in the annual meeting of the SRC (Société Royale des Chimistes). This year, the meeting took place in Liège, around the theme of “Scientific communication”.
It was a nice opportunity to meet chemists from across Belgium, as well as present and discuss our research. Romain, Pauline and Isaline were very proud to showcase posters on phosphate polymerisation, nitrosoarenes and olefin carboxylation.
It’s an exciting day at the CiTOS, with another one of our members heading out to work at MIT! Thomas will be working at the Myerson lab in a postdoctoral position in collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceutical company.
We Dr. Toupy the best of luck in Boston and in science!
We are very eager to communicate on our progress toward the implementation of an automated flow platform. This adventure started ca 12 months ago and our efforts converged into a modular flow platform. Version 1.0 features automated valves, a thermoregulated flow reactor (adaptable for photochemistry) and a fraction collector. 
The entire setup is orchestrated through LabVIEW. We are in the process of developing pumps to complement the setup. More to come soon.
Thanks to a rare showing of the Belgian sun, the whole CiTOS team was happy to celebrate a gradual return to social events: the annual barbecue on the Sart Tilman campus was a great opportunity to welcome new members to the group 😉
Michele Desiante, from the University of Bari Aldo Moro, joins the group as an Erasmus student.
Welcome, Michele!
William Burtonboy and Maximilian Zoschg join the group as Master students.
Welcome, William and Maximilian!
Noémie has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Integrated Continuous Flow Photoreactor: Photooxidation of sulfides with Singlet Oxygen” on Wednesday, March 24. She is now working with IBA.
