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Paul Dyson

paul.dyson@epfl.ch

EPFL SB-DO
PH A2 364 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
1015 Lausanne

EPFL SB ISIC LCOM
BCH 2402 (Batochime UNIL)
Av. F.-A. Forel 2
1015 Lausanne

 Paul Dyson joined the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at EPFL in 2002 and served as Chair of the Institute from 2008 to 2016. From 2016 to 2021, he was a member of the Council of the Division of Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences at the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2021, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Basic Sciences at EPFL. 

Awards

Werner Prize

Swiss Chemical Society

2004

Award for Outstanding Achievements in Bioorganometallic Chemistry

2010

Centennial Luigi Sacconi Medal

Italian Chemical Society

2011

Bioinorganic Chemistry Award

Royal Society of Chemistry

2015

European Sustainable Chemistry Award

European Chemical Society

2018

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

2010

Alliance Prize

Best invention of the EPFL

2007

Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences

2019

Green Chemistry Award 2020

Royal Society of Chemistry

2020

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Tiziano Agostino Caldara, Lianghui Li, Aleksandar Mihaylov Mikov, Matilde Onofri, Shun Tian

Past EPFL PhD Students

Kedar Ashok Abhyankar (2023), Wee Han Ang (2007), Lucinda Kate Batchelor (2019), Ilaria Biondi (2011), Felix Daniel Bobbink (2018), Adrian Benjamin Chaplin (2007), Catherine Clavel (2014), Corinne Daguenet (2006), Antoine Dorcier (2006), Ryan Dykeman (2011), Lindsey Frederiksen (2025), Aswin Gopakumar (2018), Mouna Hadiji (2023), Yameng Hao (2023), Martin Hulla (2019), Alena Karakulina (2016), Pui Shan Genevieve Lau (2015), Wei-Tse Lee (2022), Fook Seng Ronald Lee (2016), Valentin Michael Manzanares (2016), Séverine Joëlle Moret (2014), Antoine Philippe Van Muyden (2020), Anna Katherine Renfrew (2010), Jan Romano de Gea (2025), Jaques-Christopher Schmidt (2025), Claudine Scolaro (2007), Erfan Shirzadi (2021), Serhii Shyshkanov (2020), Sviatlana Siankevich (2016), Irina Sinenko (2023), Po-Jen Tseng (2022), Dmitry Vasilyev (2019), Ana Vidis (2007), Xunhui Wang (2025), Xinbang Wu (2025), Dongbin Zhao (2006)

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Oliver Anthony Beswick (2017), Lu Chen (2021), Céline Fellay (2008)

Courses

Preparative chemistry I

CH-220

Apply basic reactivity in organic chemistry to the multi-step synthesis of polyfunctional molecules. Instruction on safety regulation in laboratories of chemical synthesis. Instruction on the planification and monitoring of simple synthetic pathways.