Alumni
Project Leader
Dr. Nam Hee Kwon (Project leader): Solid state electrochemistry
Nam-Hee joined the group in June 2010 and leaved in April 2020
PhD Students
Dr. Estelle Gueneau (PhD student, Geneva 2003):
Alkali and alkaline earth metal clusters
Dr. Adeline Robin (PhD student, Geneva and Basel 2005):
Inorganic polymers of Cu(I, II) and Ag(I)
Dr. William Maudez (PhD and Postdoc, Karlsruhe and Basel 2006):
Clusters of alkali, alkaline and rare earth metals
Dr. Rémi D. Bergougnant (PhD and Postdoc, Karlsruhe and Basel 2006):
Clusters of alkali metals with calixarenes and crown ethers
Dr. Jorge L. Sagué Doimeadios (PhD and Postdoc, Karlsruhe, Basel and Fribourg 2006):
Inorganic polymers of Ag(I)
Maya Al Assaad (1 year stay, Fribourg 2008):
Ag-compounds
Laurent Mirolo (5 year stay, Basel and Fribourg 2010):
Ag-Histidine complexes and crown ether compounds
Dr. Tünde Vig Slenters (PhD, Basel 2009):
Antimicrobial coatings for implant materials
Antoine Fleury(4 years stay, 2010):
Theory
Dr. Fabienne Gschwind (PhD, Fribourg 2010):
Mixed metal compounds as precursors for oxide materials
Dr. Aurélien Crochet (PhD, Fribourg 2010):
Clusters of transition metal ions
Aurélien was a postdoc before finishing his PhD
He is now back as machine pool responsible in FriMat.
Dr. Jérôme Girard (PhD, Fribourg 2012):
Polyelectrolytes with Ag-ions
Dr. Inès Chevrier (PhD, Fribourg 2018):
Real coordination polymers
Dr. Yvens Cheremond (PhD, Fribourg 2013):
Precursors for ion conducting battery oxide materials
Dr. Jacinthe Gagnon (PhD, Fribourg 2014):
Nanoencapsulation of silver-based antimicrobial drugs
Dr. Massimo Varisco (PhD, Fribourg 2014):
Antibiotic silver surfaces
Dr. Magdalena Priebe (PhD, Fribourg 2014):
Biomolecules and Silver
Claire-Lise Chanez (4 years stay, Fribourg 2014):
Precursors for oxide materials
Dr. Sonja Kracht (PhD, Fribourg 2015):
Silver coordination chemistry with peptides and ligands
Jean-Pierre Brog (4 years stay, Fribourg 2015):
Cluster compounds of transition metals
Noémie Voutier (2.5 years stay, 2017):
Stimuli responsive calixarenes
Noémie is currently a PhD student in the group of Prof. Fabio Zobi
http://fabiozobi.wixsite.com/zobigroup/copy-of-emmanuel-kottelat
Benoît Baichette (2 years stay, 2017):
Synthesis of metal-organic precursors for the generation of oxide or similar materials
Dr. Sivarajakumar Maharajan (PhD, Fribourg 2018):
Na+-ion battery materials, nano-Sn encapsulation
Dr. Hervé Yao (PhD, Fribourg 2018)
New eletrolytes for Li-batteries
Dr. Paula Corcosa (3 years stay, 2018):
Bioinspired bimetallic complexes with silver and other metals for synergistic antimicrobial activity
Paula joined the group in 2018 and defended her thesis in October 2025
Dr. Milène Tan (PhD, Fribourg 2018): Silver-polymer composite materials
Milène joined the group in July 2014
Dr. Valentin Chabert (PhD, Fribourg 2018): Bacterial resistance to silver : the role of SilE protein
Valentin joined the group in September 2014
Dr. Alba Finelli (PhD, Fribourg 2018): Precursors for mixed metal oxides
Alba joined the group in Mars 2014
Dr. Sarah-Luise Abram (PhD, Fribourg 2018): Nanoencapsulation of silver
Sarah joined the group in April 2014
Dr. Michela di Giannantonio (PhD, Fribourg 2018): Ferrocene-based bacterial sensor
Michela joined the group in June 2014
Dr. Anja Holzheu (PhD, Fribourg 2019): Hydrogels with short peptides and their composites with metal nanoparticles
Anja joined the group in February 2015
Dr. Serhii Vasylevskyi (PhD, Fribourg 2019): Anthracene and pyrene building blocks for luminescent coordination polymers
Serhii joined the group in November 2015
Dr. Atena-Bianca Solea (PhD, extra muros):
Luminescent, enantiopure and magnetic materials based on lanthanides
In collaboration with Prof. Olimpia Mamula-Steiner at the Engineering School of Fribourg (HE-FR) (link)
Atena joined the group in February 2017 and defended her thesis in March 2021
Dr. Emilie Jean-Pierre (PhD): DNA-ferrocene functionalized polymers
Emilie joined the group in September 2018 and defended her thesis in October 2022
Dr. Justine Schwarte (PhD): Mixed metal antimicrobial compounds
Justine joined the group in November 2018 and defended her thesis in June 2024
Philippe Yep (PhD student): Functional nanorattles
Philippe joined the group in June 2018
Florian Marquenet (PhD student): Mechanism of antimicrobial activity of silver
Florian joined the group in September 2018
Maksym Karamash (PhD student): Electron transfer from cytochromes to silver ions
Maksym joined the group in December 2018
Franck Oswald (PhD student): Anthracene and pyrene building blocks for luminescent coordination polymers
Franck joined the group in June 2019
Ali Kaiss (PhD Student): Supramolecular knots
Ali joined the group in February 2020
Chloé Morin-Payé, PhD student, Bioinorganic chemistry of silver and other metal ions, effects on genomics and proteomics
Chloé joined the group in November 2023
Postdocs
Dr. Jing Chen (Postdoc, Fribourg 2009):
Ag-/Cu-coordination polymers with luminescent ligands
Dr. Fang Wu (Postdoc, Basel):
Antimicrobial Ag-compounds
Dr. Sonja Eckhardt (Post-Doc, Fribourg 2012):
Silver-peptide complexes
Dr. Miriam Lauz (Post-Doc, Fribourg 2012):
Electron transport through peptides
Dr. Matthias Messerer (Post-Doc, Fribourg 2014):
Peptide silver interaction (in collaboration with Dr. Mathieu Lang)
Dr. Mathieu Lang (Post-Doc, Fribourg 2013):
Peptide silver interaction (in collaboration with Dr. Matthias Messerer)
Dr. Lenke Horvath (Scientific collaborator, Fribourg 2017):
CTI project
Dr. Jamshid Rjabi (Scientific collaborator, Fribourg 2017)
Ag-coordination polymers with luminescent ligands
Dr. Nelly Herault (Postdoc, 2018)
Nanocontainers and beads synthesis for the CO2 photoreduction
Dr. Joanna Conder (Postdoc, Fribourg 2019): Li- and Na-Batteries
Dr. Lucille Simond Babel (Postdoc): Interactions of silver efflux pump proteins with silver
Lucille joined the group in May 2018 and leave in April 2020
Dr. Mickaël Claudel (PostDoc): InnoSuisse Project on antimicrobial coatings
Mickaël joined the group in April 2019 and leave in June 2020
Dr. Monica Zufferey (Postdoc): Interactions of silver efflux pump proteins with silver
Monica joined the group in October 2018 and leave in October 2020
Dr. Agonist Kastrati (PostDoc): Anthracene building blocks for luminescent coordination polymers
Agonist joined the group in June 2019 and leave in december 2020
Dr. Mohammed Srout (Visitor & Postdoc): New electrolytes for batteries
(before PhD student, Swiss Excellence Stipend): Li- and Na- Batteries
Mohammed joined the group in January 2019 and leave in January 2021
Dr. Jihane Hankache (Postdoc): New electrolytes for batteries
Jihane joined the group in February 2018 and leave in May 2021
Technicians
Elodie Lextreyt (Lab technician): New electrolytes for batteries
Elodie joined the group in July 2020 and leave in december 2020
Master Students
Nicolas Fuchs (Diploma student, Geneva):
Supramolecular Chemistry
Stefanie Zuber (2009):
Antimicrobial Ag-compounds
Claire-Lise Chanez (2010):
Precursors for oxide materials
Dr. Emmanuel Kottelat (2010):
Silver complexes with amino acids and small peptides
Emmanuel was back at UniFR for a PhD with SNSF-Prof. Fabio Zobi:
http://fabiozobi.wixsite.com/zobigroup/emmanuel-kottelat
Dr. Harry Ramanantoanina (2010):
Lionel Pharisa (2015):
Pyridine-based ligands for coordination polymers of copper(II) and silver(I) ions batteries
Divine Mouck-Makanda (2016)
High energy olivine structured cathodes for lithium-ion
Cédric Mittellheisser (Master Internship): Interactions of silver efflux pump proteins with silver
Cédric joined the group in April 2019
Undergraduate students
Basel
Stephanie Mesch, Christian Krüger
Fribourg
Aakansha Saharan; Elsbeth Wyer; Amira Ben Masour; Lucile Bernet; Elisabeth Schäfer; Alberto Celada; Joel Seydoux; Nathalie Joset; Dominique Maret; Yauhen Sheima; Cristiano Caridade; Anaiz Martinez
Brian Barlett (NCCR Internship): Functional nanorattles
Brian joined the group in Mai 2019
SCOPES “Suprachem@Balkans.eu”
Visitors
Dr. Vera Deneva (visiting PhD):
Tautomerism : Where is the hydrogen ?
Sofia Aguiar
Jelena Andric
(visiting PhD student from Belgrade)
Yana Monolova
(visiting PhD student from Sofia, 2015)
Dr. Biljana Glisic
(visiting Postdoc from Kragujevac, 2 month 2017)
Dr. Atanas Kurutos
(assist. professor from Sofia, visiting 2 months 2017)
Inter- and IntraMolecular Processes
http://www.orgchm.bas.bg/~i2mp
Silvia Hristova
(vititing PhD student from Sofia, 2 months 2017)
Internship
Fabiane Fagundes-Brito (Exchange PhD student, Basel):
Polymers, membranes and channels (Stipend)
Dr. Cyrille Assouma Dagri
(visiting PhD from Abidjan, 2009-2011)
Edwin Madivoli (PhD student, Swiss Excellence Stipend): Silver nanoparticle formation with Geobacter sulfurreducens
Edwin joined the group from September 2018 to April 2019
Dr. Edwin Madivoli : Chitosan and cellulose materials
Edwin joined the group from April to September 2022
Kata Dobric (intern)
Kata joined the group on April 2018 now in Lattuada Group
Soledad Bonnet Gomez (Internship): Interactions of silver efflux pump proteins with silver
Soledad joined the group in January 2019
Damien Nicolet (Internship)
Damien joined the group in February 2019
Julia Barbeitos: Internship
Julia joined the group in August 2019
Dr. Richard Remy (Internship): Anthracene and pyrene building blocks for luminescent coordination polymers
Richard joined the group in October 2019
Cédric Buffolo (Internship): Mixed metal antimicrobial compounds
Cédric joined the group in February 2020
Fabienne Marti (Internship): Functional nanorattles
Fabienne joined the group in October 2019
Michael Derada (Internship): Solid state electrochemistry
Michael joined the group in January 2020
Nicolas Boutin (Internship): Interactions of silver efflux pump proteins with silver
Nicolas joined the group in January 2020
Dr. Carla Coppola (internship): Interactions of silver efflux pump proteins with silver & biotests
Carla joined the group in September 2020 and leave in February 2021
Justas Mikutavicius (NCCR intern): DNA-ferrocene functionalized polymers.
Justas joined the group in July 2021 and leave in september 2021
Oksana Kaplunenko (Junior Research Collaborator): Nanoparticles
Oksana joined the group in May 2022 to Jully 2024
Dr. Antoine Scalabre (PostDoc): Two-level ordering in nanorattles for optical properties
Antoine joined the group in June 2022 to January 2026
Communication
Dr. Sofia Martin Caba: MINT responsible for the Chemistry Department
Sofia joined the group on April 2015