Floor 4 · Chemistry & Materials Building
Everything a corridor apart
The group’s rooms lie along a single corridor: two purpose-built laboratories, an instrument and computing room a few steps from the synthesis benches, a reagent store, offices, meeting rooms, and a lounge. They are presented below in walking order; each stop is photographed, and every photograph can be enlarged.
- 100+instrument & equipment units in the working inventory
- 26fume hoods in the group's laboratories
- 192parallel photo / electro reaction positions
- ≈1,000CPU cores on the group's own cluster
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The corridor
The fourth floor of the Chemistry & Materials Building runs around a central atrium, so every room on this page is a short walk along the same corridor.
- 415 ≈130 m²
Organic synthesis laboratory
The group's wet laboratory has rows of fume hoods, each with face-velocity monitoring, dual vacuum and gas lines, and the group's nameplate above it. A preparation island occupies the center, and color-coded safety cabinets line the wall.
- 411
Instrument & HPC room
The chromatography, mass spectrometry, and spectroscopy instruments are a few steps from the synthesis benches, so routine analysis is done on the same floor. Each instrument has its own station under an extraction arm.
- 412
Reagent store
Flammables, oxidizers, and corrosives are kept in separate color-coded safety cabinets, locked and labeled, so that any reagent can be found in seconds.
- 414 ≈200 m²
AI & automated chemistry laboratory
The group's second and larger laboratory is dedicated to AI and automated chemistry. Its first phase is now complete, and more will be shown here in due course.
- 419
Research staff office
Every member has a fixed workstation and an ergonomic chair, and one full wall is a glass whiteboard for discussion. The office is separate from the wet laboratories, so computational work can be done without interruption.
- 436 · 420
Meeting rooms
The large conference room is used for group meetings and the smaller glass-walled room for subgroup discussions; both are equipped for video conferencing.
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Pantry & lounge
The lounge has an espresso machine, a microwave, and leather armchairs overlooking the atrium. Group dinners are planned here, and the next experiment is often discussed while a reaction stirs.
Instruments & equipment
The working inventory
The instruments are grouped by function, and every entry is in regular use. The × N plates give the number of units, and each card opens to show its photographs and full record.
Reaction & synthesis
The group has equipment for air-free techniques, photochemistry, electrochemistry, and reactions at high and low temperatures, so almost any transformation can be run in-house.
Purification & work-up
From crude mixture to pure compound without leaving the room.
Analysis & characterization
Structure, purity, and mechanistic data are all obtained in-house, on the same floor as the reaction flask.
Computing
DFT calculations, descriptor generation, and machine learning run on the group's own nodes, and the university's shared cluster provides additional capacity when needed.
Support & infrastructure
The supporting equipment that keeps a laboratory running smoothly, all of it owned by the group.
Instruments photograph well. They are better in person
Come see the floor
We welcome PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting researchers in all three research directions, and interns in AI-driven automated chemistry.