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.
  • Prof. Paolo Samori (SysChem director)
  • Prof Joseph Moran (CSC graduate school director)
  • Prof. Petra Hellwig (CSC graduate school deputy director)
  • Dr. Gilles Ulrich (director of chemistry doctoral school)
  • Prof. Rachel Schurhammer (dean faculty of chemistry)
  • Prof. Thomas Ebbesen (Jean-Marie Lehn Foundation director)
  • Executive committee members

Executive committee

consisting of representatives of the main Strasbourg research institutes involved, who manage the operational implementation of SysChem’s actions.
  • Prof. Paolo Samori (SysChem director)
  • Prof. Joseph Moran (CSC graduate school director)
  • Dr. Jean-François Lutz (pedagogical director)
  • Prof. Vincent Robert
  • Prof. Peter Faller
  • Dr. Giulio Ragazzon (director selection committee)
  • Dr. Alberto Bianco
  • Dr. Valérie Beneteau (deputy director in charge of education at the faculty of chemistry)

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. Clément Sanchez (Président), Professor Emeritus of the Collège de France
  • Robert Gresser, Innovation Consultant – Former VP of Research and Innovation, SOLVAY
  • Prof. Anne-Clemence Corminboeuf, Professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
  • 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. Joseph Moran,
Director

Program manager

Stéphanie Cheron-Wittersheim,
Manager CSC graduate School
Corporate Partnerships

Pedagogical Commitee

  • Dr. Jean-François Lutz (pedagogical director)
  • Prof. Joseph Moran (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. Giulio Ragazzon (director selection committee)
  • Prof. Claudia Bonfio (Mentoring director)

Selection committee

  • Dr. Giulio Ragazzon (director selection committee)
  • Prof. Joseph Moran (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.