Nicolai Cramer

Nicolai Cramer was born in Stuttgart, Germany; he studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart where he graduated in 2003, and earned his PhD in 2005 under the guidance of Professor Sabine Laschat. After a research stage at Osaka University, Japan, he joined the group of Professor Barry M. Trost at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow in 2006. From 2007 on, he worked on his habilitation at the ETH Zurich associated to the chair of Professor Erick M. Carreira and recieved the venia legendi in 2010.In 2010, he started as Assistant Professor at the EPF Lausanne and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013 and to Full Professor in 2015.His main research program encompasses enantioselective metal-catalyzed transformations and their implementation for the synthesis of biologically active molecules.Author profile (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.)CV Teaching & PhD PhD Students Bram Van Den Bossche, Seongmin Jeon, Wilfrido Eliot Almaraz Ortiz, Jason Denizot, Andrea Brugnetti, Patrick Michael Langrzyk, Navadheer Yalamanchili, Maxime Decourt, Anastasiia Vorobei, Clara Muller, Hein Erik Diepers Past EPFL PhD Students Baihua Ye, Laetitia Souillart, Michele Boghi, Christopher Matthew Bandeli Kourra, Van Manh Pham, Christoph Heinz, Joachim Sven Ernst Ahlin, David Kossler, Julia Pedroni, Yang Sun, Yun-Suk Jang, Daria Grosheva, Johannes Diesel, Philipp Georg Werner Seeberger, Sung Hwan Park, Coralie Duchemin, Qui-Hien Nguyen, John Henry Reed, Benoît Audic, Jin Fay Tan, Elena Braconi, Kristers Ozols, Aragorn Laverny, Yixuan Cao, Johannes Klett, Madron Du Vigné Adrien Jules Louis, Arthur Despois, Vitalii Smal Courses Efficient Synthetic Routes Towards Bioactive Molecules CH-620 Natural Products, Disconnection approach, Synthetic efficiency Modern Organic chemistry-Success stories CH-642 Total synthesis, Natural product, Green chemistry, nantioselective synthesis, Organo-catalysis, Lewis acid,Transition-metal, Drugdiscovery. Organic functions and reactions II CH-234 To develop basic understanding of the reactivity of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds. To develop a knowledge of a class of pericyclic reactions. To apply them in the context of the synthesis. 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. Structure and reactivity CH-432 To develop a detailed knowledge of the key steps of advanced modern organic synthesis going beyond classical chemistry of olefins and carbonyls. Awards Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2019 Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry 2013 Werner Prize Swiss Chemical Society 2012