Alain Borel

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alain.borel@epfl.ch +41 21 693 98 01

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3268-3195

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EPFL SISB-SOAR
RLC D1 220 (Rolex Learning Center)
Station 20
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 98 01
Office: RLC D1 220
EPFL > VPA > VPA-SISB > SISB-SOAR

Web site: Web site: https://www.epfl.ch/campus/library/

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Fields of expertise

- Library and information services
- Scientific research data management
- System administration (Unix, Mac OSX and MS Windows)
- Molecular modeling, especially classical MD simulations and Density Functional Theory applied to transition metal complexes
- Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy
- Programming (Python, Javascript, C, Fortran, Unix shell, Matlab)

Publications

Infoscience publications

Publications

2024

The Zenodo communities: visibility and FAIRness of your dataset. Example at the EPFL

A. Borel

Love Data Week 2024, [online], 14.02.2024.

Alain Borel

Lecturer

Fields of expertise

Publications

Infoscience publications

Publications

2024

The Zenodo communities: visibility and FAIRness of your dataset. Example at the EPFL

2023

A research data files & folders naming convention for the impatient

2022

README file for datasets - Best practices and template

2020

EPFL Library Publishing Support Fastguides

2019

RDM Walkthrough Guide

2013

Infoscience, EPFL's institutional repository: facts and prospects

ChemCalc: a building block for tomorrow’s chemical infrastructure

2012

Computer-aided Universal Decimal Classification

Electronic fine structure calculation of [Gd(DOTA)(H2O)]- using LF-DFT: The zero field splitting

DRM et bibliothèques

2011

MarcXimiL : near duplicates detection (and similarity analysis)

MarcXimiL - A deduplication tool for library records... and more

Be realistic, demand the impossible: Comparison of 4 discovery tools using real data at the EPFL Library

2009

A ruthenium-based metallostar: synthesis, sensitized luminescence and 1H relaxivity

Development of a flexible tool for the automatic comparison of bibliographic records. Application to sample collections - Développement d'un logiciel flexible pour la comparaison de notices bibliographiques et application à différentes collections

Site Selective Functionalization of Fluorinated Nitrogen Heterocycles

Multiple Frequency and Variable Temperature EPR study of Gd(III) polyaminocarboxylates: analysis and comparison of the magnetically dilute powder and the frozen solution spectra

2008

Towards the Rational Design of MRI Contrast Agents: Electron Spin Relaxation Is Largely Unaffected by the Coordination Geometry of Gadolinium(III)-DOTA-Type Complexes

2007

Multiple-frequency EPR spectra of two aqueous Gd3+ polyaminopolypyridinecarboxylate complexes: a study of high field effects

Stochastic Liouville equation treatment of the electron paramagnetic resonance line shape of an S-state ion in solution

Design of Gd(III)-Based Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents: Static and Transient Zero-Field Splitting Contributions to the Electronic Relaxation and Their Impact on Relaxivity

2006

A Theoretical Characterization of Covalency in Rare Earth Complexes through Their Absorption Electronic Properties: f-f Transitions

A High-Frequency EPR Study of Frozen Solutions of Gd(III) Complexes: Straightforward Determination of the Zero-Field Splitting Parameters and Simulation of the NMRD Profiles

Multiplets of free d- and f-metal ions: A systematic DFT study

Variable Temperature and EPR Frequency Study of Two Aqueous Gd(III) Complexes with Unprecedented Sharp Lines

A Starburst-Shaped Heterometallic Compound Incorporating Six Densely Packed Gd3+ Ions

2005

Water-Soluble Gadofullerenes: Toward High-Relaxivity, pH-Responsive MRI Contrast Agents

High Relaxivity Confined to a Small Molecular Space: A Metallostar-Based, Potential MRI Contrast Agent

The effect of pyridinecarboxylate chelating groups on the stability and electronic relaxation of gadolinium complexes

2004

Molecular dynamics simulations of the internal mobility of Gd3+-based MRI contrast agents: consequences for water proton relaxivity

Molecular dynamics of Gd(III) complexes in aqueous solution by HF EPR

Hybrid ligand-field theory/quantum chemical calculation of the fine structure and ZFS in lanthanide(III) complexes

2003

MD simulations of acyclic and macrocyclic Gd3+-based MRI contrast agents: Influence of the internal mobility on water proton relaxivity

2002

Multiexponential Electronic Spin Relaxation and Redfield's Limit in Gd(III) Complexes in Solution: Consequences for 17O/1H NMR and EPR Simultaneous Analysis

T1e in Four Gd3+ Chelates: LODEPR Measurements and Models for Electron Spin Relaxation

How Does Internal Motion Influence the Relaxation of the Water Protons in LnIIIDOTA-like Complexes?

Gd(III) based MRI contrast agents: improved physical meaning in a combined analysis of EPR and NMR data?

2001

EPR Spectroscopy of MRI-Related Gd(III) Complexes: Simultaneous Analysis of Multiple Frequency and Temperature Spectra, Including Static and Transient Crystal Field Effects

Molecular dynamics simulations of MRI-relevant GdIII chelates: direct access to outer-sphere relaxivity

A general approach to the electronic spin relaxation of Gd(III) complexes in solutions. Monte Carlo simulations beyond the Redfield limit

Molecular dynamics simulation of Gadolinium(III) complexes in aqueous solution

2000

EPR on aqueous Gd3+ complexes and a new analysis method considering both line widths and shifts

1998

Développement d'agents de contraste de haute relaxivité pour l'Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique

1997

A Multinuclear NMR Study on the Structure and Dynamics of Lanthanide(III) Complexes of the Poly(amino carboxylate) EGTA4- in Aqueous Solution

Teaching & PhD

Courses

Hands-on with Research Data Management in Chemistry

Information literacy for chemists

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