Group members

Reguram Arumugaperumal, postdoc
Reguram obtained a BSc in Chemistry from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU, India) and a MSc in Chemistry from Bharathiar University (India). He received a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, specializing in supramolecular chemistry from National Chiao Tung University (ROC, Taiwan) in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Hong Cheu-Lin. He then moved to the research group of Prof. Wen Sheng Chung at National Chiao Tung University (ROC, Taiwan) before joining the group in 2022.
Office: YO 308 | Lab: YO 419 | Email

Dattatraya Ukale (Datta), postdoc
Datta received his Bachelor and Master degree from the University of Pune (India). Subsequently, he worked at Alkyl Amines Chemicals Ltd, University of Pune, and CSIR-NCL Pune. He earned a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Turku (Finland) in metal-mediated base pairing in nucleic acids under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Tuomas Lönnberg. Prior to joining the Cougnon Lab, he did short-term postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford (UK) with Prof. Ben Davis on metal-mediated bioconjugations of nucleic acids
Office: YO 308 | Lab: YO 422 | Email

Andrei Beliaev, postdoc
Andrei received a Specialist degree in Inorganic Chemistry with Prof. S. P. Tunik from the Saint-Petersburg State University (Russia) in 2015 and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Eastern Finland (Finland) in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Igor O. Koshevoy. He further stayed two years in the group of Prof. Andreas Steffen, Technical University of Dortmund (Dortmund, Germany) exploring phosphorescent transition metal carbene complexes. In July 2022, he started his journey at the NSC with the groups of Ass. Prof. Fabien Cougnon and Dr. Tatu Kumpulainen on a project entitled “Nanoscopic entities generating fast triplet emission for optronics”.
Office: YO 308 | Labs: YO 421 & Laser lab | Email

Nadège You, postdoc
Nadège received a technical degree in Chemistry from the École Technique Supérieure de Chimie de l’Ouest (France) in 2015. After a gap year in South Africa, she obtained a BSc in Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom) in 2018. She then started her PhD in the Dr. Laurent Trembleau group, where she developed new supramolecular catalysts to optimize the production of surfactants from carbohydrates. She further stayed for short-term postdoctoral research in 2022, focusing on the total synthesis of marine products in collaboration with a biotechnology company, before joining the group in 2023.
Office: YO 308 | Lab: YO 419 | Email

Rajanish Pallerla, postdoc
Rajanish graduated in 2018 from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (India), where he carried a MSc project entitled “Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Carpatamides A-D” under the supervision of Prof. Gokarneswar Sahoo. He received a PhD in Chemistry for his “Studies Towards the Synthesis of Favipiravir & Humilisin E”, carried under the supervision of Prof. Petri Pihko at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland).
Office: YO 517 | Lab: YO 419 | Email

Dimitri Delcourt, PhD student
After two years at the University of Montpellier (France) and one year at Université du Québec À Chicoutimi (Canada), Dimitri obtained a BSc in Chemistry of Natural Products in 2019. He obtained a MSc in Chemistry of Natural Products in 2021 at the University of Limoges (France). He joined the group for his MSc internship at the National University of Ireland Galway (Ireland) in 2021.
Office: YO 308 | Lab: YO 419 | Email

Alice Gable, PhD student
Alice earned a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Strasbourg (France) in 2020. During this time, she spent one year at the University of Nagoya (Japan) as an international student (NUPACE program). Then she began a MSc in Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry in Strasbourg. She did a six-month research internship in the group of Prof. Christoph Schalley at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) before joining the group in 2022.
Office: YO 308 | Lab: YO 419 | Email

Kirill Geyl, PhD student
Kirill received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 2020 and a Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry in 2022 from Saint Petersburg State University (Russia). He joined the group in 2023 to pursue his PhD degree in Supramolecular Chemistry.
Office: YO 308 | Lab: YO 419 | Email

Avijit Jaiswal, PhD student
Avijit obtained a Bachelor´s degree in Science in 2015 & a Master´s degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2017 from the University of Lucknow (India). Thereafter he joined Jubilant Biosys, a pharmaceutical company based in India where he worked as a research associate for more than 4 years. Later in 2022 he joined the group of Prof. Petri Pihko at the University of Jyväskylä as a research assistant before joining the group in 2023.
Office: tbd | Lab: YO tbd | Email
Former members

Post-docs
Dávid Pál, PhD (2020)
Graduate students
Kenji Caprice, PhD (2016 – 2020)
Undergraduate students
Océane Gruet – Master’s student (Summer 2022)
Alexandre Walther – Master’s student (2018 – 2019)
Charlotte Egger – Master’s student (2018 – 2019)
Cuong Dat Do – Master’s student (2018 – 2019)
Elodie Buttay – Master’s student (2016-2017)
Technicians
France Favarger – technician (2015 – 2020)
Pauline Perera – trainee technician (2017 – 2020)