CNRS Researcher (DR CNRS, HDR)

Sebastien Goeb obtained his PhD degree in Organic Chemistry in 2006 under the supervision of Drs Raymond Ziessel and Antoinette De Nicola. He then carried out two successive one year postdoctoral stays respectively with Prof. Felix N. Castellano at the University of Bowling Green (USA) and with Dr Jean-Luc Parrain at the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille (France). He became Chargé de Recherche CNRS in the laboratory MOLTECH-Anjou in 2008. His research activity focused on the design of stimulable molecular architectures built by coordination self-assembly. In particular, he designs redox stimulable molecular hosts capable of modulating their complexation properties, and interlocked supramolecular cages bearing donor and acceptor units.

sebastien.goeb @ univ-angers.fr

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Full Professor (Professeur des Universités)

David Canevet obtained a PhD from the University of Angers in January 2010 (Dir. Pr Marc Sallé) and his habilitation in 2018. During his PhD, his research activities focused on multifunctional architectures to elaborate molecular logic gates, as well as tetrathiafulvalene-based gelators as precursors for nanostructured conducting materials. In March 2010, he joined Dr Emilio Pérez and Pr Nazario Martin in the University Complutense of Madrid to study macrocyclic hosts for fullerenes. Since September 2011, David Canevet is associate professor in the MOLTECH-Anjou laboratory, where he leads research activities in the field of supramolecular chemistry. His main interests include supramolecular photo- and electroactive polymers and photo- and redox-switchable foldamers, a research line he initiated in Angers.

david.canevet @ univ-angers.fr

Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences)

Antoine Goujon obtained his PhD degree in Organic Chemistry in october 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Nicolas Giuseppone at the Université de Strasbourg, working on the macroscopic amplification of collective motions of molecular machines and motors. He then carried out a postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. Stefan Matile at the Université de Genève (Switzerland) from 2017 to mid 2019 working on the design, synthesis and evaluation of mechanosensitive fluorescent probes to sense and vizualise membrane tension in living cells. He was appointed Maîte de Conférence (Associate Professor) in the laboratory MOLTECH-Anjou in september 2019. He works on new synthetic methodologies for the pi-extension of perylenediimides and their use in organic electronics devices and supramolecular assemblies.

antoine.goujon @ univ-angers.fr

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Lizzie Killalea obtained her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. David Amabilino.  Her PhD studies focussed on the self-assembly of asymmetric chromophores, including the formation of twisted crystals and the use of circular dichroism imaging to investigate the influence on the chiral packing of thin films. She then carried out a two-year post-doctoral stay at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in the group of Prof. Yves Geerts working on the design and synthesis of a range of molecules employed in CISS effect studies. Lizzie is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the PulSAr group working on stimuli-responsive chiral foldamers in solution and light-emitting diodes (SKYFALL) with David Canevet.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Vincent Monnier was born in Saint-Nazaire, France. After a bachelor degree in chemistry obtained in the university of Nantes, he pursued his studies with a LUMOMAT master degree, between the universities of Nantes and Angers. He obtained his PhD from the university of Nantes in 2022 under the supervision of Fabrice ODOBEL and Stephane DIRING. His PhD studies focused on the synthesis of new perylene diimide ligands for the elaboration of redox active metal-organic frameworks, with an emphasis on the study of the charge displacement in such porous structures for electrochemical applications. He then carried out a two-years post-doctoral stay at the institute POLYMAT in San Sebastian/Donostia, Spain. This work, under the supervision of Aurelio (Koke) Mateo-Alonso, focused on the design and synthesis of building blocks for the elaboration of atomically precise nanoribbons through an in-solution bottom-up approach, and their study in terms of photophysical properties and electronics.  Vincent is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the PulSAr group, working on the rationalization and structural control of interlocked chiral coordination cages.

PhD Student

Malika Alshab was born in Al-Marwanieh, South Lebanon. She earned her B.Sc., M.Sc. (1) and M.Sc. (2) degrees in Chemistry from the Lebanese University. Currently, she is a cotutelle Ph.D. student jointly affiliated with the Lebanese University and the University of Angers.

Malika is conducting her research with the Pulsar team, under the co-supervision of Dr. Sébastien Goeb and Pr. Marc Sallé. Her work focuses on functional redox-active self-assembled molecular cages, exploring their synthesis and applications as nanoreactors.

PhD Student

Thomas is a PhD student at the University of Angers in the PulSar team since October 2024. He was born in the east of France, in Reims (1999). After obtaining an Advanced Technician Diploma in 2019 in Mulhouse, he earned his bachelor’s degree in general chemistry in 2022. In the same year, he decided to continue his studies in the LUMOMAT Master’s program at the University of Rennes (1st year) and Angers (2nd year). During his first year, he worked on Organic Redox Flow Batteries (oRFB) with CNRS Dr. Florence GENESTE and Associate Professor Didier FLONER, in collaboration with the KEMIWATT French startup. The aim of this internship was to further the company’s work by finding an organic synthetic solution to increase the solubility of the electroactive species. In the second year of his master’s program, Thomas began an internship focused on polymer-based batteries with Charles COUGNON to deepen his knowledge about batteries. The goal was to fully characterize a formed polymer and test the first materials made from this TEMPO polymer. After this electrochemistry period, Thomas decided to return to work in an organic chemistry lab. He obtained his master’s degree in 2024 after completing his internship under the supervision of Associate Professor Antoine GOUJON, where he studied the light-frozen dynamic covalent synthesis of electron-deficient conjugated materials. Thomas is currently working on the synthesis of PDI Nanohoops structures using the same strategy he employed during his internship with Antoine GOUJON.

PhD Student

Romain was born in Angers in 1999. He obtained his bachelor degree of physics and chemistry in 2020 after two years of engineering preparatory class. Then he obtained his master degree performing the LUMOMAT master in the universities of Nantes and Angers. During his master, he performed two internships, the first one working with Dr Sebastien Goeb in Angers on the field of breathing supramolecular cages thanks to redox stimuli and the second one working with Dr Franck Camerel, Dr Sandrine Cammas-Marion and Dr Nathalie Bellec in Rennes on polymeric nanoparticles incorporating photothermal gold bisdithiolene complexes. He is now performing his PhD with Dr Sebastien Goeb on redox controlled catenation of coordination cages.

PhD Student

Fanny obtained her DUT in analytical and synthetic chemistry, her Bachelor's degree and her Master's degree in Molecular Chemistry at the University of Rennes (France) in 2024. She made her last internship to validate her Master's degree in the Organometallics Materials and Catalysis (OMC) and the Organic Chemistry and Interfaces (CORINT) teams, between the Rennes Institute of Chemical Sciences and the Rennes School of Chemistry (ENSCR), where she did the multi-step synthesis of complexes with surprising optoelectrochemical properties, under the supervision of Yann TROLEZ and Julien BOIXEL. Then she moved in Moltech Anjou to start her PhD, where she works on the multi-step synthesis and characterization of the optoelectronical properties of electron-deficient conjugated materials under the supervision of Antoine GOUJON.

PhD Student

Louis Hardoin is a PhD student at the University of Angers under the supervision of Professor David CANEVET. He obtained a bachelor's degree in physics and chemistry at the University of Angers. Afterwards, he completed the first year of the LUMOMAT Master's degree in Nantes and performed an internship under the supervision of Professor Pietrick HUDHOMME and Dr Antoine GOUJON on the synthesis and investigation of an acceptor donor system based on Perylenediimide and tetrathiafulvalene. His Master's degree diploma was obtained in Angers after completing the internship under the supervision of Professor David CANEVET on the study and synthesis of luminescent foldamers. He is currently working on oligopyridine-dicarboxamide foldamers with two themes: luminescent foldamers and redox control of double helices hybridization.

PhD Student

Emilien HUSSON is a PhD student at the University of Rennes under the supervision of Dr. Pierre-Antoine BOUIT (ISCR) and Prof. David CANEVET (MOLTECH-Anjou). He obtained a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies (FST) of Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy. His Master’s degree diploma was obtained in FST after completing the internship under the supervision of Prof. Vincent FERRIERES (ENSCR) on the Development of boronic esters inducing hydrogen bonds for regioselective acylation reactions. He is currently working on the synthesis of bisphosphonium-based electro- and photo-active rotaxanes and tunning the spectroscopic properties of merocyanines through hybridization.

PhD Student

Sindoora Suresh completed her under graduation and master’s degree in India, from MG University and VIT University respectively. As part of her master’s thesis, she worked on the synthesis of bio-active molecules and performed their biological studies. In 2022, Sindoora moved to France and obtained an additional master’s degree in Catalysis, Molecules and Green Chemistry from the University of Rennes. During her masters in Rennes, she undertook her internship with Prof. Dominique Lorcy and Dr. Antoine Vacher in the MaCSE team. She worked on the development of Tetrathiafulvalene based functional molecules and exploiting their redox chemistry at the supramolecular levels. Sindoora joined the MOLTECH-Anjou laboratory in October 2023 to start her PhD. She is currently working on redox-controlling the binding of coordination cages grafted on monolayered surfaces, under the supervision of Dr. Sebastien Goeb and Dr. Christelle Gautier.

PhD Student

Radhouan Maazaoui received his PhD in Molecular chemistry in 2017 from Sorbonne University (Paris, France) under the supervision of Professor Fabrice Chemla. His thesis was focused on the Domino reactions and semi-hydrogenation of alkynes; Imidates and amidines: synthesis and biological activity. He then carried out a postdoctoral stay in the group of Professor. Jean Rodriguez working on the design and regioselective synthesis of 2-pyridones from β-ketoamides by heterogeneous organocatalysis and homogeneous metal catalysis. He later moved to Orléans for a second postdoctoral position, where he joined the group of Professor Isabelle Gillaizeau to start a new project focused on the development of new methods for functionalizing C-H enamide bonds - Application to the synthesis of bioactive compounds. He then pursued a new postdoctoral position in the group of Professor Sébastien Tilloy working on the direct and BILIK-reaction catalytic stereo Isomerization of native β-Cyclodextrin. In the last postdoctoral position, he joined the group of Professor Sophie Fourmentin working on the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their applications to the encapsulation of essential oils. After that, he was recruited as a temporary teaching and research assistant (ATER) at Le Mans University. He worked on the development of new OH insertion reactions on α-diazo-β-vinyl esters- Application to the total synthesis of natural products and bioactive analogues by X-H insertion reactions: Example of Chaxalactins, with Dr. Anne-Caroline Chany. Radhouan is currently a Temporary Assistant Professor working on the synthesis of electron-deficient conjugated materials with Dr. Antoine Goujon. In addition, he actively teaches first, second and third-year bachelor's degree students.