Nicolai Cramer

EPFL SB ISIC LCSA
BCH 4305 (Batochime UNIL)
Av. F.-A. Forel 2
1015 Lausanne

Nicolai Cramer was born in Stuttgart, Germany; he studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart where he graduated in 2003, and earned his PhD in 2005 under the guidance of Professor Sabine Laschat.
After a research stage at Osaka University, Japan, he joined the group of Professor Barry M. Trost at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow in 2006. From 2007 on, he worked on his habilitation at the ETH Zurich associated to the chair of Professor Erick M. Carreira and recieved the venia legendi in 2010.
In 2010, he started as Assistant Professor at the EPF Lausanne and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013 and to Full Professor in 2015.
His main research program encompasses enantioselective metal-catalyzed transformations and their implementation for the synthesis of biologically active molecules.
Author profile (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.)

CV

Awards

Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

2019

Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry

2013

Werner Prize

Swiss Chemical Society

2012

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Wilfrido Eliot Almaraz Ortiz, Andrea Brugnetti, Maxime Decourt, Jason Denizot, Erik Diepers, Seongmin Jeon, Patrick Michael Langrzyk, Clara Muller, Anastasiia Vorobei, Navadheer Yalamanchili

Past EPFL PhD Students

Joachim Sven Ernst Ahlin (2016), Benoît Audic (2021), Michele Boghi (2015), Bram Van Den Bossche (2026), Elena Braconi (2022), Yixuan Cao (2024), Johannes Diesel (2019), Coralie Duchemin (2020), Daria Grosheva (2019), Christoph Heinz (2016), Yun-Suk Jang (2019), Johannes Klett (2024), David Kossler (2017), Christopher Matthew Bandeli Kourra (2016), Aragorn Laverny (2023), Qui-Hien Nguyen (2021), Kristers Ozols (2022), Sung Hwan Park (2020), Julia Pedroni (2017), Van Manh Pham (2016), John Henry Reed (2021), Philipp Georg Werner Seeberger (2020), Vitalii Smal (2026), Laetitia Souillart (2015), Yang Sun (2019), Jin Fay Tan (2021), Baihua Ye (2015)

Courses

Efficient Synthetic Routes Towards Bioactive Molecules

CH-620

Natural Products, Disconnection approach, Synthetic efficiency

Modern Organic chemistry-Success stories

CH-642

Total synthesis, Natural product, Green chemistry, nantioselective synthesis, Organo-catalysis, Lewis acid,Transition-metal, Drug discovery.

Organic functions and reactions II

CH-234

To develop basic understanding of the reactivity of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds. To develop a knowledge of a class of pericyclic reactions. To apply them in the context of the synthesis.

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.

Structure and reactivity

CH-432

To develop a detailed knowledge of the key steps of advanced modern organic synthesis going beyond classical chemistry of olefins and carbonyls.