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