Paul Joseph Dyson

Paul Dyson joined the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at EPFL in 2002 and served as Chair of the Institute from 2008 to 2016. From 2016 to 2021, he was a member of the Council of the Division of Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences at the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2021, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Basic Sciences at EPFL. Teaching & PhD PhD Students Lianghui Li, Aleksandar Mihaylov Mikov, Shun Tian, Matilde Onofri, Tiziano Agostino Caldara Past EPFL PhD Students Corinne Daguenet, Dongbin Zhao, Antoine Dorcier, Ana Vidis, Claudine Scolaro, Wee Han Ang, Adrian Benjamin Chaplin, Anna Katherine Renfrew, Ilaria Biondi, Ryan Dykeman, Séverine Joëlle Moret, Catherine Clavel, Pui Shan Genevieve Lau, Valentin Michael Manzanares, Sviatlana Siankevich, Fook Seng Ronald Lee, Alena Karakulina, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Aswin Gopakumar, Lucinda Kate Batchelor, Dmitry Vasilyev, Martin Hulla, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Serhii Shyshkanov, Erfan Shirzadi, Wei-Tse Lee, Po-Jen Tseng, Mouna Hadiji, Yameng Hao, Irina Sinenko, Kedar Ashok Abhyankar, Lindsey Frederiksen, Jaques-Christopher Schmidt, Jan Romano de Gea, Xinbang Wu, Xunhui Wang Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Céline Fellay, Oliver Anthony Beswick, Lu Chen Courses Practical - Dyson Lab BIO-603(DP) In vitro cytotoxicity testing is often the first step to establish the utility of a compound as a potential drug. The course will teach students how to evaluate the cytotoxicity of compounds on cancer cells of human-origin and appropriate non-tumorigenic cell lines. Preparative chemistry I CH-220 Apply basic reactivity in organic chemistry to the multi-step synthesis of polyfunctional molecules. Instruction on safety regulation in laboratories of chemical synthesis. Instruction on the planification and monitoring of simple synthetic pathways. Awards Werner Prize Swiss Chemical Society 2004 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Bioorganometallic Chemistry 2010 Centennial Luigi Sacconi Medal Italian Chemical Society 2011 Bioinorganic Chemistry Award Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 European Sustainable Chemistry Award European Chemical Society 2018 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2010 Alliance Prize Best invention of the EPFL 2007 Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences 2019 Green Chemistry Award 2020 Royal Society of Chemistry 2020