Doctoral Researchers

Our projects and Doctoral Researchers (DCs):

DC1: Bratislav Dačević

University of Groningen, (Principal Investigator: Prof. Gerard Roelfes)

Topic: Bifunctional artificial metalloenzymes for radical addition reactions.

DC2: Nele Schulte

University of Strasbourg, (Principal Investigator: Dr. Vincent Lebrun)

Topic: De novo copper-binding peptides catalyzing ATRA and ATRC reactions.

DC CH1: Michaela Slánská

University of Basel,  (Principal Investigator: Prof. Thomas R. Ward)

Topic: Artificial metalloenzymes for the hydroxylation of inert C–H bonds

DC3: Iuliia Ushakova

Technical University of Darmstadt and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU),  (Principal Investigators: Prof. Nico Bruns and Prof. Chris Oostenbrink)

Topic: Engineering of metalloenzymes for biocatalytic radical polymerizations

DC4: Joshvi John

University of Groningen, (Principal Investigator: Prof. Katja Loos)

Topic: Metalloenzymes-catalyzed polymerization of novel glycomonomers

DC UK1: Ilayda Tolu

University of Strathclyde, (Principal Investigator: Prof. David S. Palmer)

Topic: Artificial Intelligence algorithms to design and optimize ArMs for C-H bond functionalization

DC5: Peter Fraško

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), (Principal Investigator: Prof. Chris Oostenbrink)

Topic: In silico modelling of natural and artificial metalloenzymes for atom transfer radical reactions using machine learned neural networks

DC6 : Yao Wei

University of Milan, (Principal Investigator: Prof. Ivano Eberini)

Topic: In silico modelling of ion-dependent and ion-independent oxidoreductive metalloenzymes

DC CH2: Denijel Yeu Latifovic

ETH Zürich, (Principal Investigator: Prof. Sven Panke)

Topic: Directed evolution of artificial and natural metalloenzymes

DC7: Sidharth Jaya Sankar

University of Stuttgart,  (Principal Investigator: Prof. Ralf Takors)

Topic: Scalable recombinant production of metalloenzymes

DC8: Cemran Toydemir Köksal

Technical University of Dortmund, (Principal Investigator: Prof. Jörg C. Tiller)

Topic: Artificial and natural metalloenzymes in nonaqueous solvents

DC9: Qianxin Zhang

Technical University of Darmstadt, (Principal Investigator: Prof. Nico Bruns)

Topic: Activity assays for metalloenzymes-catalyzed radical polymerizations and enzymatic ATRP in flow

DC CH3: Fatemeh (Roja) Aziziyan,

University of Bern, (Principal Investigator: Prof. Francesca Paradisi)

Topic: Packed bed flow reactors for metalloenzymes and reaction cascades