Visiting professorships in 2025The Liebig-College invites every year visiting research professors, who give top-caliber lectures and seminars complementary to the themes of the JLU research groups. In 2025 our visiting professors will be:https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/f08/liebig-college/lectures-in-2025https://www.uni-giessen.de/@@site-logo/logo.png
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Visiting professorships in 2025
The Liebig-College invites every year visiting research professors, who give top-caliber lectures and seminars complementary to the themes of the JLU research groups. In 2025 our visiting professors will be:
Prof. Andrei K. Yudin (University of Toronto, Canada)
Prof. Andrei K. Yudin is a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Medicine by Design at the University of Toronto. He obtained his B.Sc. degree at the Moscow State University in 1992 and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Southern California under the direction of Professors G. K. Surya Prakash and George A. Olah in 1996. He subsequently took up a postdoctoral position in the laboratory of Professor K. Barry Sharpless at the Scripps Research Institute. In 1998, he started his independent career at the University of Toronto. He received early tenure, becoming an Associate Professor in 2002, and received an early promotion to the rank of a Full Professor in 2007. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Chemical Science, handling submissions in the area of organic chemistry.
Prof. Jolene P. Reid (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Prof. Reid received her MSci in Chemistry from Queens University Belfast in 2013. As an undergraduate, she worked in the area of organic reaction development. In 2013, she moved to the University of Cambridge to carry out PhD research with Professor Jonathan Goodman. Her thesis work combined computation and experiment to understand chiral phosphoric acid catalysis.After graduating in 2017, she moved to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City as a Postdoctoral Scholar with Prof. Matthew Sigman. Here, her research focused on predictive modeling in organic synthesis. In 2018, she was awarded a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue this work. In September 2020, she joined the faculty at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor focusing on machine learning applications to organic synthesis. As of 1st July 2025, Jolene will be promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.
Prof. Marek is a Distinguished University Professor at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Since 2005, he holds the Sir Michael and Lady Sobell Academic Chair, is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a member of Academia Europaea. He was educated in France, received his PhD thesis in 1988 from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, (France) with Prof. Jean F. Normant. After a one-year period as a postdoctoral fellow in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) with Prof. Leon Ghosez, he obtained a research position at the CNRS (Centre National de la recherche Scientifique) at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in France in 1990. After obtaining his Habilitation in Organic Chemistry, he moved to the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1997.
Prof. Marek has received several awards and recognitions for his research and teaching, including the Yannai Award for Excellence in teaching and the Arthur C. Cope Scholars Award from the American Chemical Society.
