Members
Secretaries (shared with Department): Sandrine Luy: sandrine.luy@unifr.ch & Maja Ivanovic: maja.ivanovic@unifr.ch
Dr. Aurélien Crochet : Machine Pool Responsible for the Chemistry Department
Aurélien joined the group in October 2006 (PhD), leave in June 2010 (postdoc @ CSEM for 9 months) and came back in January 2011
Website: http://www3.unifr.ch/chem/en/services/platforms/x-ray.html
Dr. Priscilla Brunetto (Project leader): Project Leader for a InnoSuise-Project on antimicrobial surfaces
Priscilla joined the group in October 2006 for her PhD entitled “Development of novel biocompatible antimicrobial surfaces based on Ag-vancomycin for implant materials and medical devices“
Prof. Bernd Giese (Guest Professor): Electron transfer through peptides
PhD students:
Alexandre Bianchi, PhD student, Mechanism of antimicrobial activity of silver
Alexandre joined the group in August 2022
Salem Majouri, PhD student, Electron transfer processes in Geobacter sulfurreducens
Salem joined the group in January 2023
Vincent Paillard, PhD student, Silver and its antimicrobial effect on food, packaging, and handling
Vincent joined the group in mid-October 2024
Eneko Lopez Berloso, PhD student, Mixed metal compounds with antimicrobial properties
Eneko joined the group in september 2025
Rebecca Manouguian, PhD student, Coordination compounds for antimicrobial and anticancer applications.
Rebecca joined the group in september 2026
PostDoc & Junior Researcher :
Dr. Boopathi Appakutti Achuthan (PostDoc): Proteins of the silver efflux pump Sil
Boopathi joined the group in August 2022