About Stefan Matile
Stefan Matile is a Full Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Geneva and a founding member of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology and the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering. In 2010, he became an ERC Advanced Investigator. He is the co-author of more than 250 publications, many in top journals (45 JACS, etc), and has delivered more than 230 lectures all over the world. Half of the more than 80 students he has trained so far (PhD, postdoc) are now active in academia (China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, USA, etc); others preferred a career in industry (Firmenich, Nestle, DuPont Geneva, Siegfried, BASF, Roche, Novartis, etc). Educated at the University of Zurich (PhD, with Wolf Woggon) and Columbia University in New York (postdoc, with Koji Nakanishi), he started his independent academic career as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC, before moving to Geneva. Stefan Matile is a Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Geneva.
At the interface of synthetic organic, biological and supramolecular materials chemistry. Emphasis is on molecules and supramolecular systems that are synthesized from scratch, have interesting functions, address lessons from nature and integrate unorthodox interactions. Functions of current interest concern catalysis, cellular uptake and mechanosensitive fluorescent probes. Other topics of longstanding interest are artificial photosystems on solid surfaces and transport and sensing in lipid bilayer membranes. “Exotic” interactions of current interest include anion-π and ion pair-π interactions (catalysis, spectral tuning), mechanosensitive bonds, halogen bonds and orthogonal dynamic covalent bonds, particularly disulfide exchange in strained monomers, polymers and on the surface of cells.
Read more about Stefan Matile’s research on his lab website.
Contact
University of Geneva
Department of Organic Chemistry
30 Quai Ernest Ansermet
1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)22 379 6519 (secretariat)
