Professor Jérôme LACOUR

Status: Full Professor

Office number: 124
Lab numbers: 136, 239, 268

Phone: +41 22 379 60 62
Fax: +41 22 379 32 15

E-mail:  Jerome.Lacour@unige.ch

Postal address 

Department of Organic Chemistry 
University of Geneva 
30, quai Ernest Ansermet  ^{Google maps} 
1211 Geneva 4 / Switzerland 

Secretary:  Mireille Heimendinger | office 120 | +41 22 379 65 26

Resume

Jérôme Lacour was educated at the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm, Paris). He holds an Agrégation in Physical Sciences (major in Chemistry) and obtained in 1993 his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Prof. Philip D. Magnus. After post-doctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. David A. Evans at Harvard University, he joined the Organic Chemistry Department of the University of Geneva in 1995. In 2001, he received the Sandoz Family Foundation professorship. Since 2004, he holds a full professor position in the department.

Jérôme Lacour teaches general organic chemistry to 1^st year chemistry, biology and pharmacy students. He also lectures on physical organic chemistry to 3^rd year and graduate students, and on current stereochemistry problems to graduate and postgraduate. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Chemical Communications, Chemical Society Reviews and a Board member of Chirality, Heteroatom Chemistry and CHIMIA. He is also a member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Chirality and a member of the Organizing Committee of the EUCHEM “Bürgenstock” Conference on Stereochemistry.

 

Distinctions, Awards and Prizes

• Scientific editor of CHIMIA (2011-)
• Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Geneva (2010-)
• Visiting Professorships, École Centrale Marseille (2010), Universities of Strasbourg (2009), Angers and Dijon (2008), Lyon (2000)
• Geneva Chemical Society, President (2010-)
• Chair of "Chirality 2008", the 20^th International Symposium on Chirality
• Vice-Chair of COST Action D31 (2007-2009)
• Visiting Lecturer, National Science Council, Taiwan (2007)
• 2006 Holger Erdtman Lecturer (KTH, Sweden)
• Grammaticakis-Neuman Prize, French Academy of Sciences (2005)
• Werner Prize and Medal, Swiss Chemical Society (2002)
• Sandoz Family Foundation Professorship (2001-2004)
• Synthélabo Postdoctoral Fellowship (1993-1994)
• Rhône-Poulenc Predoctoral Fellowship (1989-1993)
• “Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale” Undergraduate and Predoctoral Fellowships (1986-1989)