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Professor Guillaume De Bo

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Guillaume obtained his Master's Degree in Chemistry (summa cum laude) from the University of Louvain (Belgium) in 2004. He did his Master's thesis under the supervision of Prof István E. Markó on the development of platinum-based catalyst for the hydrosilylation of alkynes. He obtained a fellowship from the FRIA to undertake a PhD, in the same laboratory, on the synthesis of angular triquinanes. In 2009 he took a post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Prof Jean-François Gohy and Charles-André Fustin (UCL, Belgium) to work on the assembly of mechanically-linked block copolymers. In 2011, after having obtained a Bourse d’excellence from the WBI and a Fellowship for International Mobility from the FRS he joined the group of Prof David A. Leigh, first in Edinburgh then in Manchester, to work on the development of molecular machines. Since January 2016 he is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2021 and Professor in 2022.

Career

Since 2022  Professor of Organic Chemistry (University of Manchester)
2021-2022  Senior Lecturer (University of Manchester)
Since 2016  Royal Society University Research Fellow (University of Manchester)
2012-2015  Research Fellow/Project Manager (Prof. David A. Leigh, University of Manchester)
2011-2012  Postdoctoral Research Associate (Prof. David A. Leigh, University of Edinburgh)
2009-2010  Postdoctoral Research Associate (Prof. Jean-François Gohy and Prof. Charles-André Fustin, University of Louvain)
2004-2009  PhD (Prof. István E. Markó, University of Louvain)

Awards

2022 ERC Consolidator Grant
2021 Bob Hay Lectureship
2021 Macro Group UK Young Researcher Medal​
2020 ​Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
2015 Royal Society University Research Fellowship

Offices in learned societies

Since 2021   Member of Royal Society’s International Programmes Advisory Group
Since 2020   Member of the RSC-Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry group committee
2020-2022   Member of the SCI Young Chemists' Panel
2017-2022   Member of the RSC local section - Manchester and District committee (Science rep)
2014-2017   Secretary of the RAPS committee (Recent Appointees in Polymer Science)

Editorial work

Since 2021   Member of the Editorial Board of Supramolecular Materials (KeAi)
2017-2018   Guest editor of a Supramolecular Chemistry Special Issue on Emerging Supramolecular Chemistry in the UK
2016-2019   Chem (Cell Press) Next-Generation Advisor

Networks

Member of the Mechanochemistry for Sustainable Industry COST Action (CA18112) network

Memberships

Since 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Since 2013 Royal Society of Chemistry
Since 2009 American Chemical Society

Profiles

ORCID: 0000-0003-2670-6370
Scopus Author ID: 13402636800​
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Interviews

Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about this Science paper on flyby reaction trajectories under extrinsic force
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about our Nature Chemistry paper on concomitant dissociation pathways of a mechanophore
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about this Nature paper on self-assembled polycatenanes.
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about our JACS paper on the use of a catenane as a mechanochemical protecting group
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemical and Engineering News about this JACS paper on a latent mechanoacid
Read Guillaume's comment in Chemistry World about this Nature Chemistry paper on force-stabilised thiol-maleimide adducts.
Read Guillaume's comment in La Recherche (in French) about a peptide-synthesising molecular machine 
Listen to Guillaume's interview (in French) in the popular science show O Positif on La Premiere (Belgian public broadcaster)

Funding

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