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Paul Dyson

paul.dyson@epfl.ch

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

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

Past EPFL PhD Students

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

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Céline Fellay, Oliver Anthony Beswick, Lu Chen

Courses

Practical - Dyson Lab

BIO-603(DP)

In vitro cytotoxicity testing is often the first step to establish the utility of a compound as a potential drug. The course will teach students how to evaluate the cytotoxicity of compounds on cancer cells of human-origin and appropriate non-tumorigenic cell lines.

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.