Congratulations to succsesful PhD defenses!

28.05.2025

Congratulations to all graduates!

Congratulations to all DoSChem students who successfully passed their PhD Defense in the first half of 2025!

Panel A: 

Patrick Guggenberger - defended the thesis: "High Surface Area Noble Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER)"

Panel B:                                                                                                                             

Tadija Kekic - defended the thesis: “HIGH-PERFORMANCE RNA PHOSPHORAMIDITES FOR THE IN SITU PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC SYNTHESIS AND ASSEMBLY OF STRUCTURED NUCLEIC ACID LIBRARIES ON MICROARRAYS”                                                                                                            

Arturo Auñon-Lopez - defended the thesis: “Exploring New Insights into Lipid Oxidation and the Role of Carbonyl-Amine Reactions in Food”

Panel C: 

Xabier Guarrochena Aramburu - defended the thesis: “Amide-to-Triazole Substitution Strategy for the Stabilization of Peptide-Based Radiotracers - First Application to Somatostatin Derivatives”

Marco Franceschini - defended the thesis: “Synthesis of π-extended Boron-Nitrogen Peripherally-doped Molecular Graphenoids via N-directed Borylation”

Roberto Tinelli - defended the thesis: “I. Diastereoselective synthesis of 1,5-carboxamidotrifluoromethylcarbinols via hydride transfer II. Hydrative amination of alkynes enables the synthesis of α-amino acid derivatives”

Andreas Beier - defended the thesis: “Protein Epitope Analysis by NMR Spectroscopy”

Kevin Amédé Mildau - defended the thesis “Flexible Mass Spectral Networking: Making Sense of Mass Spectral Data Through Data Mining, Statistical Prioritization, and Interactive Visualization”

Oliver Gajsek - defended the thesis: “Exploring the impact of posttranslational modifications on function and structure of Heat shock protein 90 via protein semisynthesis”

Martijn Dijkstra - defended the thesis: “Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel tumor-targeted platinum(IV) prodrug”

Viktoriia Savchenko - defended the thesis: “Biosynthesis and biological role of 2-alkyl-4-quinolones in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia thailandensis

Aleksandra Ptaszek - defended the thesis: “Bridging Computational and NMR Approaches to Unravel Protein-Ligand Interactions”