Group members
Current group members
Piret Villo, PhD
Piret did her PhD with Dr. Lauri Vares at University of Tartu and with Prof. Peter Somfai at KTH and Lund University. During that time she looked into syntheses of analogues to an acetogenin – a bioactive natural product, as well as asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of α-amido-β-keto esters. After that she spent another year with Dr Vares studying new methodology how to functionalize biomass platform molecules. Her subsequent three-year postdoc work was done with Prof. Berit Olofsson at Stockholm University on hypervalent iodine chemistry making diaryliodonium salts and using them as arylating reagents. She is currently working on methodology development and kinetic studies of electrosynthetic reactions.
Cristiana Margarita, PhD
Cristiana graduated in Organic Chemistry from Sapienza Università di Roma in 2014. Then, she worked on Ir-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenations under the supervision of Prof. Pher G. Andersson at Stockholm University, where she received her PhD in 2019. She is currently involved in methodology development and kinetic studies of Lewis acid-catalyzed transformations of alcohols.
Pintu Maity, PhD
Pintu obtained his B.Sc. degree from Ramkrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur (University of Calcutta) in 2010. Following this, he pursued M.Sc. in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India) from 2010–2012. He earned his PhD degree (2012-2017) under the supervision of Prof. Brindaban C. Ranu at the department of Organic Chemistry in Indian Association for the Cultivation of science, Kolkata, India. His Phd research work is based on metal catalyzed and visible light photocatalyzed coupling reactions towards synthesis of useful molecules. Then he joined as a postdoc in Prof. Choong Eui Song´s group at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. He continued his postdoctoral research under Prof. Arkadi Vigalok (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Prof. Kyungsoo Oh (Chung Ang University, South Korea). His postdoctoral research mainly focused on asymmetric organocatalysis, NO gas sensing by bis-calixarenes through fluoroscence study. Pintu is currently working on electroreductive methodology development.
Davide Di Francesco, PhD
Davide obtained his degree in Chemistry from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Later, he joined Prof. Joseph Samec’s research group at the Department of Organic Chemistry of Stockholm University as a Ph.D. student where he graduated in 2021 defending his thesis on the catalytic valorization of lignocellulosic biomass. He is now working on water tolerant catalytic systems oriented towards the transformation of bioderived alcohols.
Julius Kuzmin, PhD student
Julius received his masters’ education in molecular science and engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2021, doing his thesis work on application of sulfonimidamides in asymmetric synthesis under the supervision of Associate Professor Peter Dinér . During his masters he did an exchange year at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and worked for half a year on bicyclic hydroxylamines for faster KAT ligation in the Bode group. He is enrolled as PhD student since December 2021 and is currently working on electrochemical activation of strong polarized sigma bonds bonds.
Malin Lill
Malin carries out her MSc diploma work in the Lundberg lab, focusing on electrosynthetic transformations.
Annabelle Fritz
Annabelle is a student intern, currently in the last year of her engineering degree from ESPCI Paris – PSL. She is carrying out her MSc diploma thesis work on the synthesis of benign bisphenols by using Lewis acid catalysts.
Previous group members
Zainab Alsaman, BSc
Zainab carried out her BSc diploma work as student intern from Stockholm University during fall 2021 and continued thereafter as research assistant in electrosynthesis during spring 2022.
Victoria Chu
Victoria carried out her BSc diploma work with Emma and Hampus during spring 2022.
Hampus Hagelin
Hampus carried out his BSc diploma work with Victoria and Emma during spring 2022.
Emma Lundqvist
Emma carried out her BSc diploma work with Hampus and Victoria during spring 2022.
Jonas Djossou, BSc
Jonas carried out electrosynthetic research in the Lundberg lab when at KTH as Erasmus exchange student from TU Munich during fall 2021.
Johannes Röckl, PhD
Johannes was a postdoctoral researcher in the Lundberg lab during 2021, focusing on kinetic studies of Lewis acid-catalyzed reactions and electroreductive synthesis.
Hemlata Agarwala, PhD
Hemlata was a postdoctoral researcher in the Lundberg lab during 2021, mainly focusing on electroanalytical studies of reductive cleavages of polarized sigma bonds for mechanistic insights.
Ivan Kumaniaev, PhD
Ivan worked as postdoctoral researcher in the group during 2021, carrying out method development for catalytic functionalization of straw-derived lignin for material purposes.
Priyanka Chaudhary, PhD
Priyanka worked as postdoctoral researcher in the group during 2021, carrying out method development for water tolerant Lewis acid catalyzed reactions.
Anna Rolén, MSc in Enginnering
Anna carried out her MSc diploma thesis work on Lewis acid catalysis during spring semester 2021 for her M.Sc. in Engineering.
Carlos Jansson Rada, BSc
Carlos was a student research intern from Stockholm University. He carried out his BSc diploma thesis work on Lewis acid catalysis during spring semester 2021.
Darius Pakarinen, MSc in Engineering
Darius carried out his MSc diploma thesis work on Lewis acid catalysis during spring semester 2021 for his M.Sc. in Engineering.
Hernando Tuñon, BSc
During fall term 2020 Hernando carried out a student research internship from HAN University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, resulting in a Bachelor's diploma thesis.
Robin Carlsson
Robin carried out his Bachelor thesis work as part of his MSc in Engineering (Civilingenjörsprogrammet) during the spring 2020.
Anja Ramström
Anja carried out her Bachelor thesis work as part of her MSc in Engineering (Civilingenjörsprogrammet) during the spring 2020.
David Camaj
David carried out his Bachelor thesis work as part of his MSc in Engineering (Civilingenjörsprogrammet) during the spring 2020.
Oscar Dalla-Santa, BSc in Engineering
Oscar carried out his diploma thesis work for his Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree (Högskoleingenjörsexamen) during the spring 2019.