Status: Assistant Professor

Office Number: 266
Lab numbers: 264, R2

Phone: +41 22 379 62 88
Fax: +41 22 379 32 15

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Postal address 

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

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

    Resume

    After two years of undergraduate studies in the laboratory of the late Professor John A. Osborn† at the University of Strasbourg (France), Clément Mazet carried out his PhD research work under the guidance of Professor Lutz H. Gade* in the same University.

    In 2003, he moved to Basel (Switzerland) where he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the group of Professor Andreas Pfaltz.

    In 2006 he was awarded a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship** and spent nearly two years working with Professor Eric N. Jacobsen at Harvard University (MA, USA).

    He joined the Organic Chemistry Department of the University of Geneva in November 2007 to build up his independent research group as a ‘Maître Assistant’. In 2011, he was awarded a prestigious Swiss National Foundation Professorship (SNF Professorship). He currently assumes the chairmanship of conferences organization of the Department of Organic Chemistry.

    His research interests include mechanistic and synthetic chemistry with particular emphasis on asymmetric catalysis.


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    † deceased April 23, 2000

    * now director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg (Germany)

    ** signed with Professor Thomas R Ward at the University of Neuchâtel