Group members

Pablo Rivera Fuentes

Professor

BSc in chemical engineering at National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2003-2008.
MSc in chemistry at ETH Zurich 2008-2009 (supervisor: Prof. François Diederich).
PhD in chemistry at ETH Zurich 2009-2012 (supervisor: Prof. François Diederich).
Postdoc at MIT 2012-2014 (supervisor: Stephen J. Lippard).
Postdoc at University of Oxford 2014-2015 (supervisors: Harry Anderson and Christian Eggeling).
Non-tenure-track assistant professor at ETH Zurich 2015-2019.
Tenure-track assistant professor at EPFL 2019-2022.
Associate professor at University of Zurich since 2022.

e-mail: pablo.riverafuentes[at]chem.uzh.ch

Full CV


Salome Püntener

PhD student

BSc in interdisciplinary science at ETH Zürich 2013-2016.
MSc in interdisciplinary science at ETH Zürich 2016-2018 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).
Internship at Givaudan 2018.

e-mail: salome.puentener[at]chem.uzh.ch


Annabell Martin

PhD student

BSc in chemistry at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg 2015-2018.
MSc in chemistry at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg 2018-2019 (supervisor: Prof. Andres Jäschke).
Research internship at The Scripps Research Institute 2018 (supervisor: Prof. Ryan Shenvi).

e-mail: annabell.martin[at]chem.uzh.ch


Carla Miró Vinyals

PhD student

BSc in chemistry at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) 2012-2017.
Research internship at University of Groningen 2017 (supervisor: Prof. Ben Feringa).
MSc in chemistry at University of Groningen 2019-2020 (supervisors: Prof. Ben Feringa and Prof. Wiktor Szymanski).
Research internship at University of Basel 2019-2020 (supervisor: Prof. Thomas Ward).

e-mail: carla.mirovinals[at]chem.uzh.ch


Krittapas Jantarug

PhD student

BSc in chemistry at Mahidol University 2014-2017.
Research internship at University of Minnesota 2017-2018 (supervisor: Prof. Erin E. Carlson).
MSc in chemistry at Mahidol University 2019 (supervisor: Prof. Chutima Jiarpinitnun).
Research assistant at VISTEC 2019-2020 (supervisor: Dr. Chayasith Uttamapinant).

e-mail: krittapas.jantarug[at]chem.uzh.ch


Henriette Lämmermann

PhD student

BSc in chemistry and biochemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2014-2017.
Research internship at Bayer Pharmaceuticals 2018.
Internship at Eurofins Genomics 2020.
MSc in biochemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with thesis at EPF Lausanne 2020-2021 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).

e-mail: henriette.laemmermann[at]chem.uzh.ch


Dorothea Kossmann

PhD student

BSc in chemistry at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg 2015-2018.
Research assistant at Hahn-Schickard at the Institute of Microsystem Analysis in Freiburg im Breisgau 2018-2019
MSc in biochemistry at Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf 2019-2021 (supervisor: Prof. Jörg Pietruszka).
Research assistant at Forschungszentrum Jülich 2021 (supervisor: Prof. Jörg Pietruszka).
Research internship in medicinal chemistry at Roche (RiCH) in Basel 2021-2022.

e-mail: dorothea.kossmann[at]chem.uzh.ch


Juan Tamez Fernández

Postdoc

BSc in Clinical Chemistry and Biology at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México 2010-2015.
MSc in Biomedical Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México 2015-2017 (Supervisor: Dr. Verónica M. Rivas-Galindo).
PhD in Biomedical Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México 2017-2021 (Supervisor: Dr. Verónica M. Rivas-Galindo).

e-mail: juan.tamezfernandez[at]chem.uzh.ch


Anna Rovira Vidal

Postdoc

BSc in chemistry at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) 2012-2016. 

MSc in organic chemistry at Universitat de Barcelona 2016-2017 (supervisor: Dr. Jordi Robles Brau).

PhD in organic chemistry at Universitat de Barcelona 2017-2023 (supervisor: Dr. Vicente Marchán Sancho). 

e-mail: anna.roviravidal[at]chem.uzh.ch


Gianluca Quargnali

PhD student

BSc in chemistry at Università degli Studi di Trieste (UniTS) 2017-2020. 

MSc in molecular and biological chemistry at EPF Lausanne 2020-2022.

MSc thesis at University of California, Berkeley 2022 (Supervisor: Prof. Christopher J. Chang).

Research internship at EPF Lausanne 2022-2023 (Supervisor: Prof. Yimon Aye)

e-mail: gianluca.quargnali[at]chem.uzh.ch


Miu Bucher

Apprentice

Apprenticeship in chemistry at the University of Zurich since 2022. 

e-mail: miu.bucher[at]chem.uzh.ch


Rebecca Andrews

Postdoc

MPhys in Physics at University of St Andrews 2011-2015

DPhil in Condensed Matter Physics (Biological Physics) at University of Oxford 2016-2021 (supervisor: Prof. Achillefs Kapanidis)

Postdoc at University of Warwick Jan 2021 – Sept 2021 (supervisor: Dr Nicole Robb)

Postdoc at University of Cambridge/AstraZeneca 2021 – 2023 (supervisors: Prof. Steven F. Lee (Cambridge) and Dr Ben Taylor (Astra Zeneca))

e-mail: rebecca.andrews[at]chem.uzh.ch


Tatjana Hofmann

MSc student

BSc in chemistry at University of Zurich 2020-2023.

MSc in chemistry at University of Zurich 2023-present. 

e-mail: tatjana.hofmann2[at]uzh.ch


Craig Steven

Postdoc

MChem in chemistry with medicinal and biological chemistry at the University of Edinburgh 2015-2020.

MChem thesis at EPF Lausanne (supervisor: Prof. Nicolai Cramer) 2019-2020.

PhD in chemical biology at the University of Edinburgh, AstraZeneca and the Institute of Genetics and Cancer 2020-2024 (supervisors: Prof. Alison Hulme and Prof. Valerie Brunton).

e-mail: craig.steven[at]chem.uzh.ch


Former PhD students and postdocs

Sarah Emmert

PhD student at EPF Lausanne and University of Zurich (2020-2024).

Current position: TBD.

Krzysztof Bielec

Postdoc at EPF Lausanne and University of Zurich (2021-2024).

Current position: Data scientist at BacteriOMIC (Warsaw, Poland).

Ádám Eördögh

Postdoc at EPF Lausanne and University of Zurich (2022-2023).

PhD student at ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne (2017-2021).

Current position: Scientist at Lonza (Visp, Switzerland).

Gina Grammbitter

Postdoc at EPF Lausanne (2021-2022).

Next position: Postdoc at EPF Lausanne with Beat Fierz (2022).

Jade Nguyen

PhD student at ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne (2017-2021).

Current position: Research scientist at Lunaphore (Tolochenaz, Switzerland).

Zacharias Thiel

PhD student at ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne (2017-2021).

Current position: Postdoc at Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research (Basel, Switzerland).

Elias Halabi

PhD student at ETH Zurich (2016-2019).

Next position: Postdoc at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School with Ralph Weissleder (2021-2024).

Current position: Senior scientist at Novo Nordisk (Lexington, MA, USA).

Alina Tirla

PhD student at ETH Zurich (2015-2019).

Next position: Postdoc at Yale University with Seth Herzon (2019-2021).

Current position: Development scientist at Novo Nordisk (Cambridge, UK).

Giovanni Bassolino

Postdoc at ETH Zurich (2015-2017).

Current position: Patent engineering at Jianq Chyun (Taipei, Taiwan).

Former BSc/MSc students and apprentices

Jade Nguyen

Zacharias Thiel

Manuel Artero

Thomas Roiss

Matthias Schneider

Moritz Hansen

Salome Püntener

Alina Begley

Daniel Richter

Eriks Kletnieks

Gisèle Truong

Sarah Boigner

Sven Papidocha

Olivera Zivojinovic

Lionel Rumpf

Naura Antariska

Benjamin Rousseau

Finlay Peterkin

Gianluca Quargnali

Peter Panzar

Théodore Bourquard

Ajinkya Dhepe

Eva María Durán

Alex Jud

Xinyan Zhou

Tatjana Hofmann

Fabiola Tommasino

Klara Gries

Kevin Kandra

Runkang Liu

Léa Blatti

Julian Frost

Yuhang Liu

Carina Piguet