Seminar:         (346) Catalysis with Strained Rings and Hypervalent Bonds

Speaker:         Prof. Jérôme Waser, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Time:         2019-03-08 15:00 to 2019-03-08 16:00

Venue:         Room 8, Conference Building

Organizer: SPST

Brief biography of the speaker:

Professor  Dr. Jérôme Waser was born in Sierre, Valais, Switzerland in October 1977.  From 1997 to 2001, he studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich. After a  summer internship at Lonza AG in Visp in 2000, he chose organic chemistry as  specialization and obtained his Diploma under the supervision of Prof. Erick  M. Carreira and Dr. Christian Fischer in 2001. In 2002, he started his Ph.D. studies at the ETH Zurich also under the supervision of Prof. Erick M. Carreira. During his Ph.D., he worked on the development of new metal-catalyzed amination reactions, which culminated in a new access to azides and hydrazines directly from olefins.

After  obtaining his PhD in 2006, he then joined the group of Prof. Barry M. Trost at Stanford Univeristy as a postdoctoral fellow. While at  Stanford, he worked on the total synthesis of Pseudolaric Acid B, a diterpene  natural product displaying interesting antifungal, antifertility and  antitumor activity. From 2007, he started his research career in at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. His principal focus of research is the development and application of new catalytic methods for the synthesis of bioactive compounds.

The further information for the speaker’s research can be found at https://lcso.epfl.ch/waser/