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
Researcher (CNRS)
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.
vbizet@unistra.fr
(+33) 3 89 33 68 38
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
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
Dr Vincent Debrauwer
Post-doctoral fellow
Vincent Debrauwer studied chemistry at University of Toulouse (FR) for 2 years then he moved to CPE Lyon (FR) where he graduated in 2017. During his studies he did a 3 months’ internship in the group of Prof. Batey at University of Toronto (CA) (2013). He did his industrial work placement at Origenis (2015-2016) in Munich (DE) for one year and his master internship at the University of Lyon in the laboratory of Dr. Thierry Billard under the supervision of Dr. Anis Tlili. From 2018 to 2022, he completed his PhD thesis at the University of Strasbourg (FR) under the supervision of Dr. Nicolas Blanchard and Dr. Vincent Bizet, and then continued in the same laboratory for a 9 months post-doctoral fellowship.
vincent.debrauwer@etu.unistra.fr Short CV: 0000-0002-2399-6053 (+33) 3 89 33 68 55
Nicolas Brach
PhD Student
Nicolas Brach began studying chemistry at IUT Robert Schuman in Illkirch-Graffenstaden (FR), then moved to the Faculté de Chimie in Strabourg (FR) where he graduated in 2019 ; he obtained a Master’s degree in molecular and supramolecular chemistry. In 2019, he joined the team of Dr. Nicolas Blanchard and Dr. Vincent Bizet inside the “Biomolecules, Synthesis and Methodologies” lab as a Ph.D student to work on heterochemistry, with a specialization in ihDA/rDA reactions.
nicolas.brach@etu.unistra.fr Short CV: (+33) 3 89 33 68 55
Lenaic Rummler
PhD Student
Lénaïc Rummler started his studies in chemistry at the IUT of Strasbourg (Fr) for 2 years. He obtained a master’s degree in molecular and Supramolecular chemistry at University of Strasbourg in 2019. He did an industrial work placement at PolyPeptids Group (Fr – 2016) in R&D for 5 months. During his master, he did internships in the team “Synthèse Organique Métallocatalysée et Hétérochimie” in the “Laboratoire d’Innovation Thérapeutique” (LIT, UMR 7200) at the University of Strasbourg on the development of methodologies and syntheses of alkaloids structure with domino reaction. In 2019, he joined the team “Biomolecules, Synthesis and Methodologies” in the “Laboratoire d’Innovation Moléculaire et Application” (LIMA, UMR 7042) at the University of Strasbourg (Fr) to do his PhD on the development of transition-metal-catalyzed synthetic methodologies under the supervision of Dr. Nicolas Blanchard and Dr. Vincent Bizet.
lenaic.rummler@etu.unistra.fr Short CV: (+33) 3 89 33 68 55
Diksha Singh
PhD Student
Diksha Singh started studying Chemistry at University of Delhi, for 3 years. Then she moved to IISER Bhopal, to pursue Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry. In 2019, she joined the team “Biomolecules, Synthesis and Methodologies” in the “Laboratoire d’Innovation Moléculaire et Application” (LIMA, UMR 7042) at the University of Strasbourg (Fr) to do her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Nicolas Blanchard and Dr. Vincent Bizet.
diksha.singh@etu.unistra.fr Short CV: (+33) 3 89 33 68 55
Qiaolan Yang
PhD Student
Qiaolan Yang was born in China. She obtained a master’s degree in chemistry Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2019. She did Medicinal chemistry as a joint training student at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, during which time she carry out the research and treatment of mental illness drugs. In 2020, she joined the team “Biomolecules, Synthesis and Methodologies” in the “Laboratoire d’Innovation Moléculaire et Application” (LIMA, UMR 7042) at the University of Strasbourg (Fr) under the supervision of Dr. Nicolas Blanchard and Dr. Vincent Bizet.
qiaolan.yang@etu.unistra.fr Short CV: 0000-0002-6960-705X (+33) 3 89 33 68 55
Jiaqi Fang
Joint PhD student with the group of Prof. Evano (ULB), Belgium
Jiaqi Fang … (education) … In 2018, he came to Europe for a joint PhD programm between Belgium and France, under the supervision of Prof. Gwilherm Evano (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and Dr. Nicolas Blanchard (Université de Strasbourg, France) where he works on …
jiaqi.fang@ulb.be Short CV: (+33) 3 89 33 68 55
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
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.
