Gevorgyan Lab

News

April 2023

Ashot is back in the lab after presenting our research at the annual NordCO2 gathering, this time at Saariselkä, Finland. 


April 2023

We were delighted to host Professor Thomas Wirth's inspiring lecture on electrochemistry in flow as part of our CSA seminar series. 


April 2023

Ashot presented our research in the seminar devoted to Chemistry and Sustainability.


April 2023

MSc Lucia Goncalves Gameiro has joined us from Université Paris-Saclay for an internship. Welcome!


March 2023

We organized a seminar on the use of SYNTHIA AI for retrosynthesis. Invited external speaker Dr. Mikael Friberg from Merck.


March 2023

Dr. Yalla Raju has joined our team for postdoctoral studies. Welcome!


March 2023

In the frames of Åpen dag i Tromsø we organized a popular science event on CO2 fixation (Vi fanger CO2) for schoolchildren and general public.


January 2023

We organized a webinar on CO2 conversion for the members of NordCO2 and CO2PERATE. The program included a lecture from an external speaker Prof. Brian V. Popp on ''Difunctionalization of alkenes with boron and CO2''. Ashot presented local research on CO2 fixation.


January 2023

Ashot presented our research at the 36th Organic Chemistry Winter Meeting. The event took place in the Thon Hotel Skeikampen located in Gausdal, Norway. 


September 2022

We have an open position for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Organic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis. For further details see here.


August 2022

Ashot was invited to present our research at the Green Technology conference 2022. Fore more details see here. The event took place in Bangkok, Thailand. 


November 2021
Dr. Danielle van der Westhuizen has joined our team. Welcome!


November 2021

Our works on application of vegetable oils as a reaction media were highlighted in C2W news magazine of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV). For more details see here.


October 2021
Our work on application of vegetable oils as a solvent for cross-couplig reactions was highlighted in Chemistry World news magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). For more details see here.


September 2021
Our study on the influence of various impurities, present in vegetable oils, on their performance as a solvent was accepted in Organometallics. Our work was in top 3 most viewed articles in Organometallics for the last 3 months of 2021. For more details see here.


July 2021
Our study on the application of food-grade and waste vegetable oils & related lipids as a solvent for chemical synthesis was accepted in Green Chemistry. For more details see here.


March 2021
We opened a position for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Organic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis.
The position's field of research:
The work will focus on the design of new renewable ligands and catalysts. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be responsible for preparation of new phosphine and carbene ligands as well as for transition metal complexes based on these ligands. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will evaluate the activity of prepared ligands and complexes on several transition metal-catalyzed transformations of industrial importance. The Postdoctoral Research Fello will become a member of an enthusiastic interdisciplinary research team, which combines experimental and computational tools in the development of novel catalysts.
The candidate can expect to be involved in the supervision of Bachelor, Master and PhD students and may participate in teaching at the Department of Chemistry. For more details see here.