Group members
Present group - Alumni - Group photos
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| Pernilla | Leonard | Benjamin | |
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| Manisha | Rakesh | Sayad | |
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| Henrik | Wesley |
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Manisha Lamba Mansiha started a two-year post doc in the group in April 2025, funded by Carl Trygger Foundation. She did her PhD with Prof. Avijit Goswami at IIT Ropar, India, graduating in 2024. Manisha is collaborating with Benjamin on diarylation chemistry.
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Wesley Beijnes Wesley is a master student at our Organic chemistry program, and will do a practical project in the group March-June 2025. He's supervised by Leonard Kersting. |
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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. |
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. |
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Henrik Hupatz Henrik is a shared post doc with the groups of Anneli Kruve and Miguel Rivero-Crespo, funded through a a SUCCeSS collaboration project. Henrik is developing machine learning tools to enable sustainable design of derivatization reagents for pesticides |
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 Check out publications from Benjamin's projects. |
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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, and is now a senior post doc funded by Olle Engkvist Foundation. He investigates VBX reactions and leads our mechanochemistry research. Check out publications from Sayad's projects. |
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 Check out publications from Leonard's projects. |
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