The Group

Who does the science?

Principal investigator



Pablo Rivera-Fuentes

BSc in chemical engineering at National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2003-2008.
MSc in chemistry at ETH Zurich 2008-2009 (supervisor: Prof. François Diederich).
PhD in chemistry at ETH Zurich 2009-2012 (suüervisor: Prof. François Diederich).
Postdoc at MIT 2012-2014 (supervisor: Stephen J. Lippard).
Postdoc at University of Oxford 2014-2015 (supervisors: Harry Anderson and Christian Eggeling).
Non-tenure track assistant professor at ETH Zurich 2015-2019.
Tenure track assitant professor at EPFL 2019-2022.
Associate professor at University of Zurich since 2022.
Full CV.

e-mail: pablo.riverafuentes@chem.uzh.ch


Current Members


Postdocs



Adam Eördögh

BSc in chemistry and biochemistry at Eötvös Loránd University 2013-2016.
MSc in chemistry at Eötvös Loránd University 2017-2018 (supervisor: Prof. Péter Kele).
Internship at Dartmouth College 2017 (supervisor: Prof. Dave S. Glueck).
PhD in chemical biology at the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry of ETH Zürich 2017-2021 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).

e-mail: adam.eordogh@chem.uzh.ch



Krzysztof Bielec

BSc in mathematical and natural sciences at Jagiellonian University 2011-2014.
MSc in mathematical and natural sciences at Jagiellonian University 2014-2016 (supervisor: Dr. Agnieszka Skorska-Stania).
PhD in chemical sciences at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2016-2021 (supervisor: Prof. Robert Holyst).

e-mail: krzysztof.bielec@chem.uzh.ch



Juan F. Tamez-Fernández

BSc in Clinical Chemistry and Biology at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México 2010-2015.
MSc in Biomedical Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México 2015-2017 (Supervisor: Dr. Verónica M. Rivas-Galindo).
PhD in Biomedical Chemistry at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México 2017-2021 (Supervisor: Dr. Verónica M. Rivas-Galindo).

e-mail: juan.tamezfernandez@uzh.ch


PhD students



Dorothea Kossmann

BSc in chemistry at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg 2015-2018.
Research assistant at Hahn-Schickard at the institute of microsystem analysis in Freiburg im Breisgau 2018-2019
MSc in biochemistry at Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf 2019-2021 (supervisor: Prof. Jörg Pietruszka).
Research assistant at Forschungszentrum Jülich 2021 (supervisor: Prof. Jörg Pietruszka).
Research internship in Medicinal Chemistry at Roche (RiCH) in Basel 2021-2022.

e-mail: dorothea.kossmann@chem.uzh.ch



Annabell Martin

BSc in chemistry at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg 2015-2018.
MSc in chemistry at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg 2018-2019 (supervisor: Prof. Andres Jäschke).
Research Internship at The Scripps Research Institute 2018 (supervisor: Prof. Ryan Shenvi).

e-mail: annabell.martin@chem.uzh.ch



Carla Miró-Vinyals

BSc in chemistry at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) 2012-2017.
Research internship at University of Groningen 2017 (supervisor: Prof. Ben Feringa).
MSc in chemistry at University of Groningen 2019-2020 (supervisors: Prof. Ben Feringa and Prof. Wiktor Szymanski).
Research internship at University of Basel 2019-2020 (supervisor: Prof. Thomas Ward).

e-mail: carla.mirovinals@chem.uzh.ch



Henriette Lämmermann

BSc in chemistry and biochemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2014-2017.
Research internship at Bayer Pharmaceuticals 2018.
Internship at Eurofins Genomics 2020.
MSc in biochemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with thesis at EPF Lausanne 2020-2021 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).

e-mail: henriette.laemmermann@chem.uzh.ch



Krittapas Jantarug

BSc in chemistry at Mahidol University 2014-2017.
Research internship at University of Minnesota 2017-2018 (supervisor: Prof. Erin E. Carlson).
MSc in chemistry at Mahidol University 2019 (supervisor: Prof. Chutima Jiarpinitnun).
Research assistant at VISTEC 2019-2020 (supervisor: Dr. Chayasith Uttamapinant).

e-mail: krittapas.jantarug@chem.uzh.ch



Salome Püntener

BSc in interdisciplinary science at ETH Zürich 2013-2016.
MSc in interdisciplinary science at ETH Zürich 2016-2018 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).
Internship at Givaudan 2018.

e-mail: salome.puentener@chem.uzh.ch



Sarah Hübner

BSc in chemistry and biochemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2014-2017.
Research internship at University of California Berkeley 2017-2018 (supervisors: Prof. Evan W. Miller and Prof. Christopher J. Chang).
MSc in chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2018-2019 (supervisor: Prof. Thomas Carell).

e-mail: sarah.huebner@chem.uzh.ch


Technician



Léa Blatti

High school in philosophy and psychology at Chamblande high school 2019.
Laboratory apprenticeship in chemistry at EPF Lausanne 2018-2022.
Internship at University of Zürich 2021-2022 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).

e-mail: lea.blatti@chem.uzh.ch


MSc students



Kevin Kandra

BSc in chemistry at University of Zürich 2018-2021



Klara Gries

MSc biochemistry at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2020 - present
BSc in biochemistry at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2017-2020
Research internship at Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research 2021 (supervisor: Prof. Kai Johnsson)
Internship at the Department of Physics, Texas Christian University 2021 (supervisor: Prof. Anton Naumov)
Research internship at Boehringer Ingelheim 2022


Internship students



Xinyan Zhou

BSc in chemistry at Southern University of Science and Technology 2018-2022



Alex Jud

BSc in chemistry at Zurich University of Applied Sciences 2017-2021


Former Members


Gina Grammbitter

BSc in biotechnology at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences 2009-2013.
MSc in molecular biology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main 2013-2015.
PhD student at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main 2016-2020 (supervisor: Prof. Helge Bode).
Postdoc at EPF Lausanne 2021-2022 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).
Postdoc at EPF Lausanne 2022 (supervisor: Prof. Beat Fierz).
Postdoc Natural Products Discovery at Novartis 2022- .


Jade Nguyen

BSc in chemistry and chemical engineering at EPF Lausanne 2012-2015.
MSc in chemistry at ETH Zürich 2015-2017 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).
PhD student at ETH Zürich 2017-2021 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).
Research scientist at Wyss Center for Bio- and Neuroengineering 2022- .


Zacharias Thiel

BSc in technical chemistry at Technical Universtity Vienna 2010-2014.
Research internship at Frauenhofer UMSICHT 2015.
MSc in chemistry at ETH Zürich 2015-2017 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).
PhD student at ETH Zürich 2017-2021 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).
Postdoc at Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research 2021- .


Elias Halabi

BSc in chemistry at Jabos University Bremen 2009-2012.
MSc in chemistry at ETH Zürich 2012-2015 (supervisor: Prof. François Diederich).
Research internship in medicinal chemistry at Roche 2015.
PhD student at ETH Zürich 2016-2019 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).
Postdoc at Massachusetts General Hospital 2021- (supervisor: Prof. Ralph Weissleder).


Alina Tirla

MSc in chemistry at University of Glasgow 2010-2015.
PhD student at ETH Zürich 2015-2019 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).
Postdoc at Yale University 2019-2021 (supervisor: Prof. Seth Herzon).
Scientist at Illumina 2022- .


Giovanni Bassolino

DPhil: University of Oxford 2015 (supervisor: Prof. Philipp Kukura).
Postdoc at ETH Zürich 2015-2017 (supervisor: Prof. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes).
Patent engineering at Jianq Chyun IP 2017- .