Consortium and Governance

SysChem Governance

SysChem director

Prof. Paolo Samori,
Director

SysChem Manager

Dr. Stéphanie Loison,
Scientific coordinator

Research units

  • Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires
  • Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg
  • Chimie de la matière complexe
  • Institut Charles Sadron
  • Immunologie, immunopathologie et chimie thérapeutique
  • Laboratoire d’innovation moléculaire & applications
  • Laboratoire bioimagerie et pathologies

Ecole doctorale impliquée

Composante impliquée

Tutelles

Steering committee

responsible for SysChem’s areas of development and strategic orientations.
  • Director of SysChem
  • Director of CSC graduate school
  • Director of chemistry doctoral school
  • Dean faculty of chemistry
  • Director of Jean-Marie Lehn Foundation 
  • Executive committee members

Executive committee

consisting of representatives of the main Strasbourg research institutes involved, who manage the operational implementation of SysChem’s actions.
  • Director of SysChem
  • Director of CSC graduate school
  • Pedagogical director
  • Feputy director in charge of education at the faculty of chemistry
  • Dr. Jean-François Lutz
  • Prof. Vincent Robert
  • Dr. Alberto Bianco
  • Dr. Giulio Ragazzon

Scientific board

composed of scientific experts, drawn from outside the Strasbourg community, who ensure transparency and an exacting selection of the most innovative projects
  • Prof. Ben Feringa (Président), 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Professor at the University of Groningen
  • Robert Gresser, Innovation Consultant – Former VP of Research and Innovation, SOLVAY
  • Prof. Herma Cuppen, Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Prof. Jonathan Hall, Professor at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Switzerland
  • Prof. Manfred Kappes, Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Prof. Marinella Mazzanti, Professor at the l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
  • Prof. Jieping ZHU, Professeur à l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
  • Prof. Jürgen Rühe, Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany

CSC Graduate School governance

School director

Prof. Petra Hellwig,
Director

Program manager

Nicolas Kuhn,
Manager CSC graduate School

Pedagogical Commitee

  • Dr. Giulio Ragazzon (pedagogical director)
  • Prof. Petra Hellwig (CSC Graduate school director)
  • Rachel Schurhammer (dean faculty of chemistry)
  • Dr. Valérie Beneteau (deputy director in charge of education at the faculty of chemistry)
  • Dr. Guillermo Monreal Santiago (Mentoring director)

Selection committee

  • Dr. Giulio Ragazzon (pedagogical director)
  • Prof. Petra Hellwig (CSC graduate school director)
  • Prof. Rachel Schurhammer (dean faculty of chemistry)
  • Dr. Valérie Beneteau (deputy director in charge of education at the faculty of chemistry)

The Jean-Marie Lehn Foundation : a key organisation for SysChem

A structure serving the community of chemistry researchers in Strasbourg, the foundation is responsible for numerous activities essential to the functioning of SysChem:
Financial and administrative management of funds

Management of funding programs

Socio-economic influence and corporate relations
Seeking additional funding through patronage

Find out more about the foundation

The Jean-Marie Lehn Foundation is a development organisation established by the University of Strasbourg and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the CNRS. Its missions: to help to reinforce the excellence of the Strasbourg campus in the field of chemistry and its interfaces with physics, biology and medicine, to provide researchers with a leverage effect and to support companies in their strategic innovation and their monitoring of the campus’s laboratories for prospective future technology.