Nicolai Cramer
EPFL SB ISIC LCSA
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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.