Status: Assistant ProfessorOffice Number: 266
Lab numbers: 264, R2Phone: +41 22 379 62 88
Fax: +41 22 379 32 15E-mail: Clement.Mazet@unige.ch
Postal address
Department of Organic Chemistry
University of Geneva
30, quai Ernest Ansermet Google maps
1211 Geneva 4 / SwitzerlandSecretary: Mireille Heimendinger | office 120 | +41 22 379 65 26
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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.
† 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


