Partners

The project is a joint effort of international european partners.

Dr. Hynek Balcar : Dr. Balcař works in the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the ASCR and he is the well-known expert in the field of zeolites.

Dr. Michał Chmielewski : he is working i.e. on Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as catalysts for organic reactions, Supramolecular chemistry of anions – molecular receptors, sensors and transporters for anions, Photoswitchable receptors and catalysts and Dynamic combinatorial chemistry.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kirschning : Prof. Andreas Kirschning studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg and at Southampton University (UK). In Hamburg, he joined the group of Prof. Ernst Schaumann and received his PhD in 1989 working in the field of organosilicon chemistry. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) with Prof. Heinz G. Floss, he started his independent research at the Clausthal University of Technology in 1991, where he finished his habilitation in 1996. In 2000 he moved to the Leibniz University of Hannover. His research interests cover structure elucidation as well as the semi-, total and mutasynthesis of natural products, biomedical biopolymers, and synthetic technologies (solid-phase assisted synthesis, microreactors and inductive heating).

Prof. Dr. Olivier Kappe : C. Oliver Kappe is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Graz (Austria) and Scientific Director of Center for Continuous Flow Synthesis and Processing (CC FLOW) at the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH (RCPE). He received his diploma (1989) and his doctoral (1992) degrees in organic chemistry from the University of Graz where he worked with Gert Kollenz on cycloaddition and rearrangement reactions of acylketenes. After periods of postdoctoral research work on reactive intermediates and matrix isolation spectroscopy with Curt Wentrup at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia (1993-1994) and on synthetic methodology/alkaloid synthesis with Albert Padwa at Emory University in Atlanta, USA (1994-1996), he moved back to the University of Graz in 1996 to start his independent academic career. He obtained his „Habilitation“ in 1998 in organic chemistry and was appointed Associate Professor in 1999. From 2011 till 2016 he held the position of Professor of „Technology of Organic Synthesis“ (Organische Synthesetechnologie) at the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Graz. Professor Kappe has an extensive general experience and a 25 year track record in synthetic and physical organic chemistry, process intensification using batch microwave technology and flow chemistry/microreaction technology, communicated in over 380 scientific publications (Research ID, WoS h-Index 69). For the past decade the focus of his research has been directed towards flow chemistry/microreaction technology, encompassing a wide variety of synthetic transformations and experimental techniques. His research group is actively involved in projects dealing with API synthesis and manufacturing, employing a number of different enabling and process intensification technologies. For his innovative work in microwave chemistry he received the 2004 Prous Science Award from the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and the 2010 100.000 € Houska Prize in addition to a number of other awards. In 2015 he was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dr. Eng. Michał Bieniek — Apeiron Synthesis S.A : Dr. Michal Bieniek is a co-founder and the CEO of Apeiron Synthesis, our industrial partner. He is a co-inventor of six patents and patent applications and the author of over 20 scientific publications in the areas of novel metathesis catalysts and their commercial applications. Michal earned an M.Sc. with honors from Warsaw University of Technology and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences. His training in organic chemistry includes research fellowships at leading laboratories in France, Germany and the Netherlands.