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| Bhaskar | Shobhan | David | ||
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| Laura | Guru | Piret | ||
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| Nibadita | Gergely | Chandan | ||
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| Vittorio | Raju | Janne | ||
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| Erika | Ester | Gabriella | ||
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| Marcus | Elin | |||
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| Emil | Stephanie | Neele | ||
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| Mattias | Wesley | Jane | ||
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| Andreas | Simeon | Judith | ||
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| Marufa | Emma | Miguel | ||
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| Niels | Amanda | Micaela | ||
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| Alexandru | Malte | Sarko | ||
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| Peter | Barbara | Tim | ||
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| Antonia | Melanie | Viola | ||
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| Constantin | Alexandra | Christin | ||
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Isac is a bachelor student at Stockholm University. He did a summer project in our group 2026, supervised by Sayad and Manisha. |
Emil Dziekanski Emil is a bachelor student at Stockholm University. He did a summer project in our group 2023, and returned for a practical project in November 2025, and is now doing a 30 ECTS bachelor thesis. |
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Rakesh Kumar Rakesh did a two-year post doc in the group March 2024-2026, funded by WennerGren Foundations. He did his PhD with Prof. Upendra Sharma in India, and a post doc with Prof. Marcin Stepien in Poland. |
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Henrik Hupatz Henrik was a shared post doc with the groups of Anneli Kruve and Miguel Rivero-Crespo, funded through a a SUCCeSS collaboration project. Henrik developed machine learning tools to enable sustainable design of derivatization reagents for pesticides. He now takes on a new role at Circulab at SU.
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Stephanie Müllauer Stephanie is a master student at TU Vienna, Austria. she did an exchange project with us in the fall 2025. Stephanie was supervised by Benjamin on arylation chemistry.
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Neele Gause Neele is a master student at Münster University, Germany. she did an exchange project with us in the fall 2025. Neele was supervised by Manisha on arylation chemistry. |
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Mattias Haglund Mattias is a bachelor student at our hemistry program. He did a practical project over summer, supervised by Benjamin and Manisha. |
Wesley Beijnes Wesley is a master student at our Organic chemistry program, and did a practical project in the group March-June 2025. He was supervised by Leonard Kersting.
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Jane Goh Jane was an exchange student from Nanyang Technical University in Singapore, who did a short practical project in our group Jan-Feb 2025. |
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Andreas Krüger Andreas was an Erasmus student from Leibniz Unviersity Hannover, who did a master project in our group in the fall 2024. |
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Simeon Tietmeyer Simeon is a master student in Sustainable chemistry, and did a short mechanochemistry project in our group in the fall 2024. |
Judith Braunreuther Judith was an Erasmus student, who did a practical master project in the spring 2023. She was working with Leonard on diaryliodonium salt synthesis. She returned for a master project January - June 2024. She's was then supervised by Sayad on mechanochemistry. |
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Marufa Akter Marufa did a practical project, followed by her master project 2023-2024. She was supervised by Sayad. |
Emma Heine Emma was an Erasmus Student from Leibniz Unviersity Hannover whojoined the gorup in September 2023 for a 4 month internship, supervised by Benjamin. |
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Erika Linde Erika did her Master thesis in the group 2018/2019, supervised by Gabbi. She stayed in the group for her PhD ifrom April 2019 to August 2023, and devloped the noew diarylation concept in the group. Erika is now employed at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg. Check out publications from Erika's projects. |
Miguel de Vries Ibanez Miguel is a master student at Stockholm University, and did a 3 month internship in the group over summer. He did a 45 ETCS master project supervised by Sayad, and finished with the highest grade (A)! Miguel is now doing a PhD in the Vilé group at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
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Kumar Bhaskar Pal Bhaskar did his PhD with Prof. Mukhopadhyay at IISER-Kolkta, India. He then performed post doctoral studies first with Prof. Ulf Nilsson at Lund University, Sweden and then with Prof. Xue-Wie Liu at Naynang Technological University, Singapore. He joined our group for a third post doc in April 2021, supported by the WennerGren Foundation. Bhaskar will investigate VBX reactions together with Ester. |
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Ester Maria Di Tommaso Ester has a Master degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Parma. She did her PhD with us October 2018-February 2023, and worked on both experimental an theoretical projects. Check out publications from Ester's projects. Ester won the Ludwig Ramberg Thesis Award in Organic Chemistry 2024! It is awarded every second year by the Swedish Chemical Society to draw attention to the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in organic chemistry in Sweden. |
Shobhan Mondal Shobhan did his PhD with Prof. Frank Glorius at the Westfälische Wilhelms - Universität Munster, Germany. He was a post doc in March 2021- Feb 2023, supported by the Olle Engkvist Byggmästare Foundation. Shobhan investigated diarylation reactions together with Erika.
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Niels Knippenberg Niels was an Erasmus student from Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He did a 30 ECTS project in our gorup during spring 2022, working with Erika on the synthesis of diaryliodonium salts. |
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Amanda Vallin Amanda did a short practical project in the group, as part of the Bachelor program in Chemistry, in the fall 2021. She was supervised by Bhaskar.
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Alexandru Postole Alex was an Erasmus student from Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, and did his Master thesis in our group in the spring 2021 supervised by Ester. Alex is now a PhD student in Belen Martin-Matute's group. |
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Micaela Ubillos Micaela is a student at Stockholm University, and did a Bachelor degree project with us in the spring 2021. She was supervised by Erika. |
David Bulfield David did his PhD on halogen bonding with Prof. Huber at the Ruhr-Universität-Bochum. He did a post doc in our group May 2019-April 2021, supported by the Olle Engkvist Byggmästare Foundation. David investigated the arylation of amines together with Erika. Check out publications from David's projects. |
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Gabriella Kervefors Gabriella started her PhD in the group in September 2016, after Bachelor and Master studies at Stockholm University and a Master project in Hans Adolfsson's group. She defended her thesis in February 2021. Check out publications from Gabbi's projects. |
Laura Castoldi Laura finished her PhD with Ass. Prof. Vittorio Pace at Vienna University in the spring 2018. She did a post doc with us from June 2018 to June 2020 on a post doctoral Fellowship from Carl Trygger Foundations. She's now an Associate Professor at Milan University. Check out publications from Laura's projects. |
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Malte Pankau Malte was an Erasmus student from the University of Kiel, Germany. Malte did a project in the group September - December 2019, working on iodine(III) chemistry in collaboration with Prof. Anne Staubitz. Malte was supervised by Ester. |
Adam Rajkiewicz Adam was an exchange PhD student from Marcin Kalek's group at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Adam stayed in our gorup August-December 2019, working on VBX chemistry. Adam was supervised by Laura. Check out the paper from Adam's project. |
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Sarko Jabbari Sarko spent 8 weeks of the summer in our lab to learn about research in organic chemistry, after his first year at the Chemistry Bachelor program. Sarko was supervised by Ester.
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Gurubrahamam Ramani Guru did his PhD with Prof. Mariappan Periasamy at the University of Hyderabad, India. He then spent 3.5 years as post doc in Taiwan with Prof. Kwunmin Chen. He joined our group in March 2017, with a post doctoral Fellowship from WennerGren Foundations, and stayed until 2019. Guru is now an Assistant Professor at IIT Jammu in India. Check out publications from Guru's projects. |
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Marcus Reitti Marcus got his MSc from Gothenburg University in 2014 after a Master project on halogen bonding in Mate Erdelyi's group. He started his PhD in our group in August 2014, and defended his thesis in January 2019. Check out publications from Marcus' projects.
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Peter Gille Peter did a 15 ECTS Bachelor degree project in the group in October - December, supervised by Guru. |
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Piret Villo Piret did a joint PhD with Dr. Lauri Vares at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and Prof. Peter Somfai at KTH & Lund University. Piret defended her thesis in 2013, and stayed as a post doc in the Vares group for some time before joining our group for a post doc in the end of April 2015. She stayed until June 2018 and was financed by a 2+1 year Fellowship from the Estonian Research Council. Check out publications from Piret's projects. |
Barbara Gräfen Barbara was an Erasmus student from Mainz, |
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Tim Seedorf Tim was an Erasmus student from Hannover Uni. He did a master level project in the group August 2017 - January 2018 on a project supervised by Piret. |
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Antonia Becker Antonia was an Erasmus student from Heidelberg, who worked on a project supervised by Gabbi September - November 2017. |
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Erik Lindstedt Erik finished his MSc in organic and medicinal chemistry at Gothenburg University the fall 2012, after a diploma work in Per-Ola Norrby's group. Erik started his PhD in October 2012, and defended his thesis May 12th, 2017. He is now employed by OleiniTec, a company selling chemical analysis equipment. Check out publications from Erik's projects. |
Yuvraj Satkar Yuvraj started his PhD with César Solorio at University of Guanajuato, Mexico in 2016. He joined our group in the end of April 2017 for a 3 month PhD exchange period, supervised by Elin. He is now back in Mexico to continue his PhD studies. |
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Nibadita Purkait Nibadita did her PhD with Prof. Siegfried Blechert at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and then a post doc with Prof. Kilian Muñiz at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain. She then took on a faculty position at the Haldia Institute of Technology, India. She did a short post doc in the group October 2016 - June 2017, and is now working as a teacher in Stockholm. |
Melanie Walther Melanie was an Erasmus student from Kiel University. She did a practical project in the group in April-July 2017, supervised by Marcus. |
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Elin Stridfeldt Elin finished her MSc in chemichal engineering at KTH in the summer 2012, after a Master project in Peter Somfai's group. She started her PhD in our group in September 2012, and defended her thesis June 2nd, 2017. She is now employed by the biocatalysis company EnginZyme. Check out publications from Elin's projects. |
Viola Hobiger Viola was an Erasmus student from Vienna, who did a practical project in the group August-October 2016, supervised by Piret. |
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Gergely Tolnai Gergely did his PhD with Prof. Zoltán Novák at the Eötvös University in Hungary, and finished in 2014. He was a post doc in our group from April 2015 to October 2016, financed by a Fellowship from Olle Engkvist Byggmästare Foundation. Gergely has now leading a research group as an independent PI at the Eötvös University in Hungary. Check out publications from Gergely's projects.
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Chandan Dey Chandan did a PhD with Prof. Peter Kündig at the University of Geneva, and did a first post doc with Prof. Antonio Mezzetti at ETH Zürich. He joined our group for a second post doc 2014- 2016, financed by a Carl Trygger Fellowship. Chandan is now a team leader in fungicide at BASF-Mumbai in India. Check out publications from Chandan's projects.
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Constantin Ruppel Constantin was an Erasmus student from Kiel University, and did a Bachelor degree project in the group March - June 2015. Constantin worked on a collaboration project with Anne Staubitz at Kiel University. |
Alexandra Seemann Alexandra is an Erasmus student from Hannover University, and does a Master degree project in the group September 2014 - March 2015. |
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Joel Malmgren Joel did a 45 hp diploma work January-August 2009 on an environmentally benign synthesis of diaryliodonium salts together with Ellie Merritt, which resulted in a publication. He started a PhD student in the group in January 2010, and studied the chemoselectivity of diaryliodonium salts, as well as Pd-catalyzed arylation reactions. He defended his licentiate thesis in October 2013, and his doctoral thesis in October 2014 with Prof. Jérôme Waser (EPFL) as opponent. Joel is now employed by the Swedish Patent and registration office. Check out publications from Joel's projects. |
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Christin was an Erasmus student from Kiel University, and did a Bachelor degree project in the group August-October 2014. Christin worked on a collaboration project with Anne Staubitz at Kiel University.
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Vittorio finished his PhD with Prof. Andrés Rafael Alcántara at the University of Madrid in 2010. He then did a first post doc in Vienna with Prof. Wolfgang Holzer, and a second post doc at the University of Mancester with Prof. David Procter. Vittorio did a third post doc in the BO group from October 2013 to July 2014, financed by a special Stockholm University post doctoral position. He then started his independent career at the University of Vienna, then moved to the University of Turin, and is since 2025 a Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome.
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Francesco obtained a Master in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology from the University of Naples in 2013. He did a practical project in the group from mid January to mid April 2014, working together with Vittorio.
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Raju Ghosh Raju did his PhD with Prof. Amitabha Sarkar in Kolkata, India, working with transition metal-catalyzed reactions. He did a post doc with us from March 2012 to March 2014, financed by the Wenner-Gren Foundations. Raju worked on several O-arylation projects, and is now working at GVK Biosciences in Hyderabad, India. Check out publications from Raju's projects.
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Jan Blid Jan finished his PhD in Peter Somfai's group at KTH in 2005, and was a synthesis specialist at AstraZeneca Södertälje until they closed down the R&D in 2012. Jan was a part time researcher in the group February 2013-January 2014, while starting his company KeytoLead. He is now working at Nanologica. |
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Sebastian was an Erasmus student from Germany, who did a 3 month degree project in the group in the fall 2013. He worked on a collaboration project with Anne Staubitz at Kiel University. He then did a PhD student in Prof. Waldvogel's group at Mainz University in Germany, with subsequent post doc studies. He's currently an Assistant Professor at Groningen University, The Netherlands.
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Marinus Bouma Marinus did his Master in Amsterdam, and then moved to France for a PhD with Prof. Jieping Zhu at ICSN, working with multicomponent reactions. He did a post doc with us Feb 2011 - August 2013, financed by the Carl-Trygger Foundation, and worked on synthesis and applications of alkynyliodonium salts. He is now employed by ReciPharm in Uppsala. Check out publications from Marinus' projects. |
Iris Tebeka Iris did her PhD in Sao Paulo University, Brazil, with Prof. Luiz Silva. She joined our group for a short post doc October 2012-January 2013 funded by STINT, and worked with Marinus on the synthesis of iodonium salts. She is now employed by Dow in Texas, USA.
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Corentin Pavageau Corentin was a Master student at ENS Cachan in France. He did an internship in our group from October 2012 to January 2013.
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Mustafa Catir Mustafa did his PhD in Ataturk University, Turkey, on hypervalent iodine-mediated reactions. Now he holds an Assistant Professor position at Erzincan University in Turkey. He did a short post doc in the group from February-September 2012, financed by TUBITAK, on the synthesis and applications of polymerbound hypervalent iodine reagents.
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Nazli Jalalian Nazli started her PhD in July 2007 after finishing her MSc degree from Stockholm University. Nazli is now employed by the Swedish Armed Forces. Check out publications from Nazli's projects.
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Thore Frister Thore was an Erasmus student from Hannover. He did a diploma work on arylation of phenols from September 2011 to February 2012, and is now back in Hannover to finish his studies. |
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Umar Farid Umar is a 3rd year PhD studen in Thomas Wirth's group at Cardiff University. He did a short exchange period in our group in January 2012, as a part of a collaboration between the research groups. |
Tue Petersen Tue did a post doc in the group from May 2009 to April 2011, funded by Carl Trygger Foundation. He worked on metal-catalyzed and metal-free arylations of nucleophiles with diaryliodonium salts. Before coming to Stockholm, Tue did his PhD with Prof. Bruce Lipshutz at the University of California, Santa Barbara, followed by a post doc with Prof. Peter Kündig at the University of Geneva. Tue is now Associate Professor at DTU Chemistry in Denmark. Check out publications from Tue's projects. |
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Marcin started his PhD in March 2006 after finishing his MSc at Lund University. Marcin finished his work in the group in May 2011, and is now employed as Chemical Safety Officer at Max IV. Check out publications from Marcin's projects.
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Ellie was a post doc in the group from August 2008 to January 2011, and was financed by a Wenner-Gren Foundations scholarship for most of the period. Eleanor worked on environmentally benign processes within hypervalent iodine chemistry, and developed several new reactions. She did her PhD with Dr. Mark Bagley at Cardiff University and finished in 2008. She is now working at RSC with ChemComm. Check out publications from Ellie's projects. |
Rehan Khan Rehan was an exchange PhD student from Pakistan, who worked the group from February to July 2010. He was financed by a HEC scholarship. Rehan worked on application of hypervalent iodine reagents together with Tue.
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Leticia Pardo Leticia spent 3 months in the group as an exchange PhD student in the spring 2010. She is now back in the group of Imanol Tellitu at the Basque Country University, Spain. She worked on the synthesis and use of diaryliodonium salts together with Marcin. She currently is a post doc in the McGlacken group at the University college of Cork.
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Vania Carneiro Vania is an exchange PhD student in the group from January to April 2010. She is the second exchange student in a STINT-financed collaboration with Luiz F. Silva, Jr. at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Vania worked on synthesis of hypervalent iodine reagents together with Ellie and Nazli.
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Eloisa Ishikawa Eloisa did an exchange period in the group from July to Nov 2009. She was the first exchange student in a STINT-financed collaboration with Luiz F. Silva, Jr. at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Eloisa worked on applications of diaryliodonium salts in synthesis together with Nazli. |
Ylva Wikmark Ylva did her diploma work in the spring 2009, she worked on heteroaryliodonium salts together with Marcin Bielawski.
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Mingzhao Zhu Mingzhao did his PhD with Prof. Ludger Wessjohann in Halle, Germany, and a post doc with Prof. Markus Kalesse in Hannover, Germany. He subsequently did a post doc in the BO group from April 2007 to March 2009, funded by Carl Trygger Foundation. He is working at Texas A&M University, USA. Check out publications from Mingzhao's projects.
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Jan Caspar Jan joined the group in September 2008 as an Erasmus student from Göttingen, Germany. He worked on asymmetric arylations, supervised by Nazli Jalalian. He finished his project in January 2009 and is now back in Göttingen.
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Felix Klinke Felix joined the group in October 2007 as an Erasmus student from Göttingen, Germany. He was supervised by Mingzhao Zhu, finished his project in April 2008 and is now back in Göttingen.
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David Aili David studied at Linköping University and joined the group to do a diploma work in spring 2007. He worked on the regiospecific synthesis of diaryliodonium salts under the supervision of Marcin Bielawski. He then worked at Syntagon until the start of his PhD studies at DTU, Copenhagen in August 2008. He is currently a researcher at DTU Energy. David received the AstraZeneca award for excellence for his diploma work.
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