Group Leader: Juho Helaja

Visiting researcher:

Ass. Prof. Naokatsu Kannari (Gunman University, Japan):

development of catalytic carbon materials

Post doctoral associates

Dr. Anna Lenarda: development of carbocatalytic materials and electrochemistry studies

Dr. Andrés Cuni-Mollar: Development of semiquinone photoredox catalysis

Lukas Enders, M.Sc.: development of asymmetric gold catalysis with new NHC ligands

Otto Seppänen, M.Sc.; gold catalysis, new ligands for gold catalysis

Juulia Talvitie, M.Sc.: Quinoidic photoredox catalysis for organic transformations

Iida Alanko, M.Sc.: Quinodic photoredox catalysis and TH-studies

Xinyu Bao, M.Sc.: Quinoidic photoredox catalysis and electrophotocatalysis

M.Sc. Juho Savola: Semiquinone photoredoxcatalysts

Master Students:

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Bachelor Students:

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Students may inquire research projects by contacting Juho directly

Contact: first.last @ helsinki.fi

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Alumni:

M.Sc. Otto Seppänen

M.Sc. Juho Koivula: Carbocatalytic conversions

Currently at INKRON Espoo

Dr. David Casadio; carbocatalysis and carbocatalyst mimicry

Currently at Fortum Espoo

Dr. Santeri Aikonen; combined computational and experimental approach to develop catalytic reactions. After post doc at Colorado State University Prof. Robert Paton research group, he is employed as data scientist Johnson & Johnson, Innovative Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA.

Dr. Evgeny Bulatov: carbocatalytic conversions of heterocycles. Currently post doc in Prof. Ballester and Prof. Echavarren groups ICIQ, Spain

Dr Tom Wirtanen, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis with and without metals

after post doc in Prof. Siegfried Waldvogel AK, Mainz, DE

currently Senior Research Scientist, industrial synthesis and catalysis, at VTT

Dr. Aleksandar Todorov, MSc.; tautomeric switching and photoredox catalysis

Current position: post-doc in Prof. Kilpeläinen group

Mikko.K.Mäkelä; carbocatalytic conversions

Vladimir Iashin, MSc.; modication of chlorophylls

Current position:

Ina Borg, M.Sc. dual active NHC-carbenes for gold catalysis

Erika Fager-Jokela, Dr.(tech.); Pauson Khand reaction

Current position: at Fermion

 

Taru Nikkonen, Dr.; Modification of chlorophylls and their photophysics

Current position: Ashland Finland

Mikko Muuronen, Dr.; theorerical and experimental metal mediated catalysis

Current position: Principal scientist, Janssen, Belgium

After Research Scientist / Lab Team Leader BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany. (and post doc in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Prof. Furche group, Irvine and Prof. Kaila group in TUM; Germany)