Members

Team Leader

Dr Nicolas Blanchard

Director of Research (CNRS)

Nicolas Blanchard received his Ph.D. from the Université Paris VI in 2000. After postdoctoral studies at Michigan University, he joined the CNRS as Chargé de Recherche in 2002 and became Directeur de Recherche at the University of Strasbourg in 2013. His research program currently focuses on total synthesis of polyketides (especially mycolactones), copper catalysis, nitrogen-substituted alkynes, and cycloaddition reactions.

  n.blanchard@unistra.fr
 (+33) 3 89 33 68 24


Permanent Staff

Dr Vincent Bizet

Researcher (CNRS) – HDR

Vincent Bizet received his PhD from the INSA of Rouen (France) in 2012. After postdoctoral studies at RWTH Aachen University and then at Geneva University, he joined the CNRS as « Chargé de recherche » at University of Strasbourg in 2016. His research interest currently focus on the development of transition-metal-catalyzed synthetic methodologies. In 2022, Vincent obtained his habilitation (HDR) from the University of Strasbourg.

 vbizet@unistra.fr
  (+33) 3 89 33 68 38

Dr Anna Boulanger

Assistant professor

Anna is a Natural Product Chemist. Her interest involves the discovery and biotransformation of bioactive natural products from plants and microorganisms.

 anna.boulanger@uha.fr
  (+33) 3 89 33 68 76

Dr Samuel Fouchard

Assistant professor

Samuel has been Maître de Conférences since 2006. His interest focuses on microbiology and new strategies to improve the rate of metabolism of lipid substrates using whole cells.

samuel.fouchard@uha.fr
  (+33) 3 89 33 68 62


Post-Doc

Dr Mariam Abd El Sater

CNRS Postdoctoral researcher 

Mariam Abd El Sater was born in 1996 in Lebanon. She obtained her M. S. degree in Organic Chemistry at Lebanese University. After doing her master internship in the team Molecular Catalysis at ICMMO (Université Paris Saclay), she pursued her PhD studies (defended in 2021) under the supervision of Dr. Emmanuelle Schulz and Dr. Nada Jaber. Her work focused on the non-covalent immobilization of salen complexes on reduced graphene oxide and the use of the supported catalysts in enantioselective transformations. In 2022, she joined the group of bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry at ICMMO for a one-year postdoc under the supervision of Dr. Wadih Ghattas, working on the preparation of artificial metalloenzymes as hybrid catalysts for the CO2 activation. In 2023, she joined the LIMA to work on the functionalization of the SF5-alkynes under the supervision of Dr. Vincent Bizet.

 mariam.adb-el-satter@uha.fr            Short CV:                    (+33) 3 89 33 68 38

Dr Pietro Capurro

CNRS Postdoctoral researcher 

Pietro Capurro was born in Genova, Italy in 1993. He studied chemistry at the University of Genova where he was awarded his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. with honours in 2017 and 2022, respectively. His research topics focused on photoinduced multicomponent reactions from a methodological point of view and their practical applications towards the synthesis of natural compounds and their analogues, and radical photochemistry for olefin functionalization. During his studies he also worked twice with AnalytiCon Discovery GmbH for the large scale synthesis of chiral building blocks, and during his Ph.D. he spent 6 months in the laboratories of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre (ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain) working on the enantioselective photo-organocatalytic radical functionalization of enals. He now moved to the CNRS in Mulhouse under the supervision of Dr. Nicolas Blanchard to work on the total synthesis on Myconolactones and its analogues.

 pietro.capurro@uha.fr            Short CV:                     (+33) 3 89 33 68 55


 

PhD Students

Lucas Popek

PhD Student

Lucas Popek obtained a master’s degree in chemistry at the University of Upper-Alsace of Mulhouse in 2021 and he did his Master internship in the team “Biomolecules, Synthesis and Methodologies” under the supervision of Dr. Nicolas Blanchard and Dr. Vincent Bizet. In 2021, he started a PhD position in the same group and supervision, where he develops his research about emerging fluorine motifs.

 lucas.popek@etu.unistra.fr       Short CV:           (+33) 3 89 33 68 55

David Matchavariani

PhD Student

David Matchavariani obtained a master’s degree in molecular and supramolecular chemistry at the University of Strasbourg in 2022. He did his master’s internship in 2022 in the team « Chimie Organique et Hétérochimie Appliquées » (COHA, LIMA, UMR 7042) under the supervision of Dr. Armen Panossian and Dr. Gilles Hanquet. In 2022, he started a PhD position in the team « Biomolecules, Synthesis & Methods » under the supervision of Dr. Vincent Bizet.

 david.matchavariani@etu.unistra.fr       Short CV:           (+33) 3 89 33 68 55

Yuri Zubchuk

PhD Student

Yurii Zubchuk obtained a master’s degree in physical chemistry at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2012. He did his master’s internship in 2012 under the supervision of Dr. Olexenko Liudmyla P. (professor of Chemistry at the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) and Dr. Gorbyk Petro P. (head of Department of Nanomaterials of Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Since 2010 till 2022 he had been working in a big worldwide chemical industrial company Enamine Ltd as a chemist. The main interest during his work was development a new synthetic methods for preparation organic compounds, mainly 5-membered azaheterocycles: pyrazoles, oxazoles, isoxasoles, imidazoles, triazoles, etc. Since 2020 till 2022 he had been working in collaborations with Tango Therapeutics as a FTE project team member. In 2022, he started a PhD position in the team « Biomolecules, Synthesis & Methods » under the supervision of Dr. Nicolas Blanchard.

yurii.zubchuk@uha.fr       Short CV:           (+33) 3 89 33 68 55


 

Graduate & undergraduate Students

Floriane René

Engineer / Master Student

Floriane joined the group in 2024 for her Master 2 research internship.

 floriane.rene@uha.fr       

Léo Clément – Comoy

Engineer / Master Student

Léo joined the group in 2024 for his Master 2 research internship.

leo.clement-comoy@uha.fr

Audrey Guilbaud – Ménard

Undergraduate Engineer Student

Audrey joined the group in 2023 for an internship in research laboratory.

 audrey.guilbaud-menard@uha.fr


 

Group Mascot

Vince the sloth

 

Vince was born in the Alsatian countryside in 2018 and joined the research group thereafter.
Vince’s main interests are sleeping while curled into a ball (up to 15 hours a day), eating leaves, slowly visiting his new Lab and catalytic asymmetric synthesis.

 

Alumni

Permanent staff


Dr Philippe Bisseret

2012-2019


Post-docs


LinkedIn Dr Virginie Casarotto

2009-2010

LinkedIn Dr Morgan Donnard

2011-2012

LinkedIn Dr Arnaud Stévenin

2011-2012

LinkedIn Dr Stéphane Schweizer

2010-2013

LinkedIn Dr Lise Parmentier

2013-2014

LinkedIn Dr Hajer Abdelkafi

2015-2016

LinkedIn Dr JianJun Wang

2018-2019


PhD students


LinkedIn Dr Jérémie Mandel

2006-2010

LinkedIn Dr Anne-Caroline Chany

2008-2011

LinkedIn Dr Cédric Tresse

2011-2014

LinkedIn Dr Guillaume Duret

2013-2016

LinkedIn Dr Sarah Saint Auret

2014-2017

LinkedIn Dr Vincent Le Fouler

2016-2019

LinkedIn Dr Chunyang Zhang

2015-2020

LinkedIn Dr Vincent Debrauwer

2018-2021

LinkedIn Dr Jiaqi Fang

2018-2022

LinkedIn Dr Lénaic Rummler

2019-2022

LinkedIn Dr Nicolas Brach

2019-2022

LinkedIn Dr Qiaolan Yang

2020-2022

LinkedIn Dr Diksha Singh

2021-2023


Master students


Nadège Hamon

2007

Anne-Caroline Chany

2008

Nathalie Dubois

2009

Stéphane Wittmann

2011

Karim Dahbi

2012

Marion Lacaud

2012

Mathieu Lafage

2012

Aymeric Dolbois

2014

David Thiébaut

2016

Boyang Yin

2016

Naoual Leqraa

2017

Cédric Pfister

2018

Pierre Delmée

2020

Logan Charton

2020

Meryem Soufi

2020

Tan Su Kay

2020

Louis Jodogne

2021

Frédérique Parfait

2022

Floriane René

2022

Jiayi Zhu

2022

Mathieu Truong

2022

Murat Cihan

2022

Nawal Menous

2022

François-Xavier Meyer

2023

Thomas Gherardi

2023

Manamba Dite Sissé Traore

2023

Emilie Plantiveau

2023

Majda El Maati

2023

Sibylle Kary Potes

2023

Arian Berisha

2023

Thomas Mourmeaux

2023


Undergraduate students


Véronica Gantert

2009

Cindy Buonomano

2010

Elodie Lucas

2010

Cédric Fries

2010

Bilale Bouarissa

2011

Aude Christen

2011

Guillaume Erbland

2014

Alexandre Schmitt

2014

Robert Quinlan

2014-2015

David Thiébaut

2015

Boyang Yin

2015

Gaétan Risch (Don Bosco middle school)

2015

Guillaume Gascard

2016

Karol Turbakiewicz (Don Bosco middle school)

2016

Sokhna Oumou Diop

2017

Adem Lakkaichi

2017

Manavy Phat

2017

Elodie Achard

2017-2018

Victor Thurnherr (Don Bosco middle school)

2018

Adrien Weissbeck (Monod middle school)

2018

Alexia Kubler

2018

Pauline Antunes

2018

Carla Faivre

2018

Pierre Runser-Bindler (Zillisheim high school)

2018

Miljana Dordevic Birling

2018

Nirina Razafindrazaka

2018

Malik Sebbat

2019

Yasmine Chibout

2019

Martin Monier

2019

Chloé Hestin

2019

Estelle Berreur

2019

Stéphanie Trieu

2020

Sarah Ungeheuer

2020

Flavien Guérin

2020

Mina Böcü

2020

Lara Decker

2020

Melih Col

2021

Oussama Fayafrou

2021

Ezgi Ilhan

2021

Claire Laurent

2022

Fatjona Citaku

2022

Marguerite Ranieri

2023