Members of the CHOCO research team:
Project leader CHOCO
Assoc. Prof. Kathrin H. Hopmann
Kathrin is an expert on quantum chemical modelling of organometallic reactions, with emphasis on selectivity and on validation of mechanistic proposals through computational and experimental approaches (PhD 2008, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden). Besides leading CHOCO, Kathrin is PI at the Centre of Excellence Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Chemical Sciences, PI in projects iCCU and MarVal, and leader of NordCO2. Since 2018, she is Associate Editor of Organometallics.
See also: ORCID (Publications), Publons (Reviewer activity), TeachingPortfolio (Teaching activity)
Co-leader of CHOCO team
Assoc. Prof. Annette Bayer
Expertise in organic synthesis.
See also: Homepage
Technical/Administration staff CHOCO
Yngve Guttormsen
PhD student CHOCO
Marc Obst
Project: Modelling of transition metal-based CO2-converting catalysts (funded by TFS)
PhD student CHOCO
Ljiljana Pavlovic
Project: Modelling of transition-metal based CO2-converting catalysts (funded by the Dept. of Chemistry, UiT)
PhD student MARVAL
Anders Myhre Brakestad
Project: Modelling of biomass converting enzymes (MARVAL, funded by UIT)
PhD student NordCO2
Cuong Dat Do
Project: Modelling of CO2 activation using FLPs (funded by NordForsk)
PhD student iCCU
Martin Pettersen
Project: Experimental development of CO2-converting catalysts (iCCU, funded by UIT)
Postdoc CHOCO
Dr. Ashot Gevorgyan
Project: Experimental development of transition metal-based CO2-converting catalysts (funded by TFS)
Postdoc CHOCO
Dr. Diego García López
Project: Modelling of transition-metal based CO2-converting catalysts (funded by TFS)
Alumni:
2019
Researcher CHOCO
Dr. Sietske Grijseels
Project: Upcycling of biomass from parasite infected plants (collaboration with prof. Espen Hansen and prof. Kirsten Krause; funded by ARC at UiT)
2016-2019
Postdoc deFACTO and CHOCO
Dr. Janakiram Vaitla
Project: Experimental investigation of selectivity-determining factors in transition-metal catalyzed reactions (deFACTO, funded by the RCN)
2015-2018
Postdoc deFACTO
Dr. Glenn Morello
Project: Theoretical investigation of selectivity-determining factors in transition-metal catalyzed reactions (deFACTO, funded by the RCN)
Research visits/Student projects:
- Ambre Steiner, Spring 2018, IUT Robert Schuman -Universite de Strasbourg, France
- Louise Putout, Spring 2018, University of Franche-Comté, Besancon, France
- Kristers Ozols, Spring 2016, Riga Technical University, Latvia
- Sonja Tischlik, Sommer 2015, Universität Konstanz, Germany
