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Visiting professorships in 2024

The Liebig-College invites every year visiting research professors, who give top-cailber lectures and seminars complementary to the themes of the JLU research groups. In 2024 our visiting professors will be:

Prof. David A. Nicewicz (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Prof. David A. Nicewicz received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Subsequently he completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Jeffrey S. Johnson  at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. After performing postgraduate studies in the group of Prof. David. W. C. MacMillan at Princeton University, he began his independent career as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolian at Chapel Hill in 2009, becoming Associate Professor in 2015 and Full Professor in 2018. 

Prof. Nicewicz's research focuses on new reaction development with a special focus on organic photoredox catalysis. He will be our guest from the 3rd of June to the 7th of June 2024.

Prof. Manuel Orlandi (University of Padova, Italy)

Prof. Manuel Orlandi obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Maurizio Benaglia and Prof. Franco Cozzi at the University of Milan. Afterwards, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Matt S. Sigman as a postdoc at the University of Utah in 2016. He moved back to Italy in 2018, and after working for Janssen for a short period, he joined the faculty at the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Padova as an Assistant Professor.

Prof. Orlandi's concentrates on asymmetric catalysis, but also organic synthesis and physical organic chemistry. He will be our guest from the 28th of July to the 3rd of August.