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Researchers
Ainara Nova
Hylleraas Research Centre of Excellence (UiO, Norway)
Together with Prof. Odile Eisenstein and me, Ainara is co-leading the Chemical Transformations (Catalysis) section at the Hylleraas Centre of Excellence for Quantum Molecular Sciences at the Chemistry Dpt. of the University of Oslo
The computational research of Ainara focuses on the Gold(III) Chemistry developed in collaboration with the experimental group of Prof. Tilset (UiO, Norway). She is also collaborating actively with the groups of Profs. Nilay Hazari (Yale Univ., USA) and Wesley Bernskoetter (Univ. of Missouri, USA) on Catalytic Cross-Coupling and Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reactions with Transition Metal Complexes.
Starting in 2016, Ainara was awarded a FRIPRO Young Talent project funded with 700 000 EUR to foster her research on catalytic carbon dioxide recycling.
PhD Students
Lluís Artús
Dpt. of Chemistry (UiO, Norway)
After completing his MSc at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) under the supervision of Prof. Maseras, Lluís joined our team to start his computational project on metal-catalyzed carbon dioxide reduction under my co-supervision shared with Res. Nova and Prof. Tilset.
Volodymyr Levchenko
Dpt. of Chemistry (UiO, Norway)
Volodymyr is using both theory and experiment to develop new gold(III) complexes for catalytic applications within nanoporous materials under my co-supervision shared with Res. Nova and Prof. Tilset.
Jakob Wåhlander
Dpt. of Chemistry (UiO, Norway)
Jakob is working in the computational development of new organocatalysts for stereoselective Diels-Alder reactions under my co-supervision shared with Profs. Gundersen and Amedjkouh.
Laia Vilella
Dpt. of Chemistry (UAB, Spain)
Laia Vilella got her PhD degree under my co-supervision shared with Prof. Lledós (UAB). The computational work of her thesis was awarded the maximum qualification on December 11th 2015 at Bellaterra (Spain).
Laia continued her career at the Stanford University (USA) with a postdoctoral position in the group of Prof. Nørskov.
International MSc and PhD Exchanges for Training in Computational Chemistry
Megan Beromi
Megan learned Computation Chemistry with us in the fall of 2017.
She is a PhD student from the Hazari group at Yale University working on nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions.
Julie Héron
Julie did part of his MSc on Computational Homogeneous Catalysis with us in the Summer of 2017.
She came from the Pierre and Marie Curie University.
Javier Grajeda
Javier started learning Computation Chemistry with us in the Fall of 2016.
He is a PhD student from the Miller group at UNC Chapel Hill working on gold(III) catalysis.
Patrick Melvin
Patrick learned Computation Chemistry with us in the summer of 2016.
He is a PhD student with Prof. Hazari at Yale working on Suzuki-Miyaura cross-couplings with poorly activated substrates.
He is currently a postdoctoral associate with Prof. Sanford at the University of Michigan.
Alexandra Strom
Alexandra learned Computation Chemistry with us in the summer of 2013.
She was then a PhD student with Prof. Hartwig at UC Berkeley working on Rh-catalyzed hydroamination reactions.
She is currently a postdoctoral associate with Prof. Jamison at the MIT.
Damian Hruszkewycz
Damian learned Computation Chemistry with us in the summer of 2012.
He was then a PhD student with Prof. Hazari at Yale working on Pd-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions.
He recently joined the Process Chemistry Catalysis Group at the GSK company.