Group members

July 2024

Marcel Schorpp

marcel.schorpp[at]ur.de

I was born in 1991 near to the source of the river Danube?and received my Abitur from the Fürstenberg Gymnasium Donaueschingen in 2010.

I started studying Chemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs Universit?t Freiburg?in the same year. During my Master's studies I went to the University of Oxford?to work with Prof. José Goicoechea for a couple of months. In 2020 I?completed my Ph.D. studies at ALU Freiburg under the supervision of Prof. Ingo Krossing.?
After a short post-doctoral stay at the same group I moved to Heidelberg in the same year?to work with Prof. Lutz Greb.

I subsequently moved to Oxford in Nov 2022 to work as a Feodor-Lynen postdoctoral researcher under the joint supervision of Prof. Simon Aldridge (University of Oxford, UK) and Cameron Jones (Monash University, Australia) until I received a call to the Univerisity of Regensburg (a few hundred km downstream of the river Danube) where I have started as tenure-track Assistant Professor for Inorganic Chemistry in April 2023.

Outside of the office/lab I enjoy playing with my kids and trying to catch up on sleep (whenever they let me).

Tejaswinee Gangber

tejaswinee.ganger[at]ur.de / +49 (0)941 943-4354

I come from the beautiful state of Chhatisgarh in India. I graduated with BS-MS dual degree from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISERB). Before moving to Regensburg, I was working at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, India.

I am currently exploring the structurally constrained highly reactive phosphorus cations with open coordinating sites exhibiting triggerable reactivities and their applications in Main Group Catalysis.

Apart from working in the lab, I like to go for a run.

I believe that good music and a cup of tea can make the day.?

Francesco Cirigliano

francesco.cirigliano[at]ur.de / +49 (0)941 943-4354

I come from the area around Regensburg and am currently writing my Master’s thesis. I completed my B.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Regensburg in 2022, where I investigated the functionalization of white phosphorus using NHC-stabilized copper complexes. In 2023, I joined Chris Slootweg’s lab at the Universiteit van Amsterdam as a guest researcher, where I developed a strong interest in cutting-edge frustrated radical pair chemistry and in silico modeling of challenging main group systems.

My current research focuses on the implementation of highly electron-withdrawing substituents in frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry for the (light-)stimulated generation of tethered radical pairs (FRPs). With these systems, we aim to homolytically borylate a variety of demanding (C-H) bonds, ultimately progressing to photocatalytic investigations