Paul Joseph DysonPaul Dyson joined the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at the EPFL in 2002 where he heads the Laboratory of Organometallic and Medicinal Chemistry and between 2008 and 2016 chaired the Institute. He has won several prizes including the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society in 2004, the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Bioorganometallic Chemistry in 2010, the Centennial Luigi Sacconi Medal of the Italian Chemical Society in 2011, the Bioinorganic Chemistry Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015, the European Sustainable Chemistry Award of the European Chemical Society in 2018 and the Green Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2020. He is also a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and has an H-index >110 (web of science and google scholar). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010, a Fellow of the European Academy of Science in 2019 and a life-long fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2020. Over the years he has held visiting professorships at the University of Bourgogne, University of Pierre et Marie Curie, University of Vienna, University of Rome Tor Vergara, Chimie Paristech and Shangai Jiao Tong University.Since 2016 he has been Member of the Council of the Division of Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences at the Swiss National Science Foundation.Between 2016-2021 he has been Member of the Council of the Division of Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences at the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2021 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Basic Sciences.
Kay SeverinKay Severin was born in Germany in 1967. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1995 with a thesis in the group of Prof. W. Beck, University of Munich. Subsequently, he joined the group of Prof. M. R. Ghadiri as a postdoctoral fellow. In 1997, he started independent research projects ("Habilitation") at the Department of Chemistry, University of Munich. In 2001, he became assistant professor at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). Since 2009, he is full professor at the same institute.
Awards: Bayerischer Habilitations Förderpreis (1997), ADUC award of the year (2001), Heinz Maier-Leibnitz award of the DFG (2001), award of the Karl-Ziegler foundation (2001), Arnold Sommerfeld award of the Bavarian Academy of Science (2001), Werner Prize of The Swiss Chemical Society (2003), Otto Roelen Medal of the DECHEMA (2005), award for chemistry of the Academy of Sciences, Göttingen (2007), Dalton Transactions European Lectureship (2008).
Ursula RöthlisbergerU. Röthlisberger was born in Solothurn (Switzerland). In 1988 she made her diploma in Physical Chemistry in the group of Prof. Ernst Schumacher at the University of Berne (Switzerland). Her Ph.D. thesis was done in collaboration with Dr. Wanda Andreoni at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon. After finishing her Ph.D in 1991 she spent some time as a postdoctoral research assistant at the IBM Research Lab. From 1992-1995 she was a postdoctoral research assistant in the group of Prof. Michael L. Klein at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA). In 1994 she was awarded an advanced researcher fellowship (Profil 2) from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Before starting her Profile 2-fellowship she spent another year as postdoctoral research assistant in the group of Prof. Michele Parrinello at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany. In 1996 she moved as Profile 2-fellow to the ETH in Zurich, hosted by the group of Prof. Wilfred F. van Gunsteren. In 1997 she became Assistant Professor of Computer-Aided Inorganic Chemistry at the ETH Zurich.
Jean-Luc MarendazJean-Luc Marendaz est chimiste diplômé (MSc) de l'Université de Neuchâtel où il reçoit en 1992 le titre de Docteur ès science pour sa thèse en synthèse et analyse de cristaux liquides organométalliques (Pr Robert Deschenaux). Il accomplit ensuite un stage postdoctoral à l'Université de Pittsburgh (Pennsylvanie, USA) dans le domaine de la chimie supramoléculaire dans les laboratoires du Pr Andrew Hamilton. Début 1994, Jean-Luc Marendaz revient en Suisse et travaille dans le développement analytique de la Division des polymères de Ciba SA à Monthey. En octobre 1994, il débute à la Section de chimie de l'Université de Lausanne comme ingénieur de sécurité et adjoint du Président de cette section. Dans le cadre du projet triangulaire UNIL-EPFL-UNIGE, il a activement participé à la réunification de la chimie lausannoise et rejoint en octobre 2001, l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. L'année suivante, il est nommé Adjoint du directeur de la nouvelle Section de chimie et de génie chimique. En 2005, il devient le premier Chef de la sécurité de la Faculté des sciences de base. En 2006, il créée le Service de sécurité et santé au travail de la Faculté des sciences de base où il office comme Chef adjoint auprès du Dr Thierry Meyer. Durant près de 17 ans, Jean-Luc Marendaz combine son activité entre le développement de la sécurité et santé au travail dans le monde académique et l'organisation des études universitaires en chimie puis en chimie et génie chimique tout en étant Chargé de cours dans ces deux disciplines. En automne 2011, ne pouvant plus mener de front cette triple activité, il renonce à son activité d'ingénieur de sécurité au Service de sécurité et santé au travail de la Faculté des sciences de base pour se recentrer auprès de la Section de chimie et de génie chimique. Jean-Luc Marendaz reste consultant en sécurité et santé au travail et continue d'y enseigner.
