The Olofsson Research Group

 

Group members

Present group - Alumni - Group photos

PhD students
  Pernilla Leonard Benjamin
Post docs

  Rakesh Henrik Sayad
Master students  
    Andreas
   

Andreas Krüger

Andreas is an Erasmus student from Leibniz Unviersity Hannover, who does a master project in our group in the fall 2024.

He is supervised by Sayad.

Email: ankr9335(at)student.su.se
Phone: +46-8-162923

Pernilla Öberg

Pernilla began her PhD studies in August 2024, supervised by Sayad. Her project is focused on mechanochemistry combined with hypervalent iodine, and funded by the Swedish Research Council.

Pernilla has a Master degree from KTH and did her master thesis in Fredrik Schaufelberger's group at KTH.

Email: pernilla.oberg(at)su.se
Phone: +46-8-162923

Rakesh Kumar

Rakesh started a two-year post doc in the group in March 2024, funded by WennerGren Foundations. He did his PhD with Prof. Upendra Sharma in India, and a post doc with Prof. Marcin Stepien in Poland.

Email: rakesh.kumar(at)su.se
Phone: +46-8-162204


Henrik Hupatz

Henrik is a shared post doc with the group of Anneli Kruve, funded through a a SUCCeSS collaboration project.

Henrik is developing machine learning tools to enable sustainable design of derivatization reagents for pesticides

Email: henrik.hupatz(at)mmk.su.se

Benjamin Gunschera

Benjamin did his master at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany, and joined our group for a PhD in September 2022.

He will investigate arylation reactions together with Shobhan.

Email: benjamin.gunschera(at)su.se
Phone: 46-8-162923

 

 

Sayad Doobary

Sayad did a PhD in electrochemistry combined with hypervalent iodine chemistry with Prof. Alastair Lennox at the University of Bristol.

He joined our group for a post doc funded by Carl Trygger Foundation, November 2021-October 2023.

He will investigate VBX reactions together with Ester.

Email: sayad.doobary(at)su.se
Phone: 46-8-162923

Leonard Kersting

Leonard was an Erasmus student from Marburg University, Germany who did a project in our gorup in spring 2020. He worked on N-arylations, supervised by Gabriella. The project resulted in a paper!

He came back to the group to start a PhD in September 2021.

Email: Leonard.Kersting(at)su.se
Phone: +46-8-162204

Check out publications from Leonard's projects.