Dr. Sebastian B. Beil (he/him)
Assistant Professor in Electrochemical Synthesis and Catalysis
email: s.b.beil@rug.nl
phone: +31 631921904
ORCID: 0000-0003-0373-3843
ResearcherID: W-5465-2019
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Sebastian was born in Kiel, Germany, where he studied Chemistry. His Bachelor’s Thesis was obtained at the University of Stockholm with Berit Olofsson (on hypervalent iodine chemistry) and Master’s Thesis with Anne Staubitz in Kiel (on conductive polymers). For his PhD he moved to Mainz and graduated in 2019 under the supervision of Siegfried R. Waldvogel on electroorganic transformations. As an internship student, he spent time with Phil S. Baran at Scripps Research in La Jolla to investigate highly reducing electrochemical conversions. After a first postdoc in the group of Max von Delius in Ulm working on synthetic carbon allotropes, he moved to Princeton University to work in the group of David MacMillan to develop new photoredox transformations. From May 2021 on, Sebastian accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Groningen.
Teaching
2022/2023
Photochemistry and Photoredox catalysis (WMCH032-05)
Green Chemistry and Photochemistry (WBCH050-05)
Homogeneous Catalysis (WMCE010-05)
2021/2022
Inorganic and photochemistry (WBCH047-05)
Homogeneous Catalysis (WMCE010-05)
Molecules of Life (WBBY047-05)
Career
since 2021
Assistant Professor
University of Groningen, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry
2020-2021
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Princeton University, Merck Center for Catalysis
Prof. Dr. David W. C. MacMillan
2019-2020
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ulm University, Institute of Organic Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Max von Delius
2015-2019
PhD in Chemistry
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Prof. Dr. Siegfried R. Waldvogel
Novel Studies on Molybdenum(V) Reagents (PhD Thesis, summa cum laude)
Internship @ Scripps Research with Prof. Dr. Phil S. Baran
2010-2015
B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Chemistry
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
Prof. Dr. Anne Staubitz
Towards the Syntheses of Dinucleophiles on Aromatic Cycles (Master’s Thesis)
Internship @ Stockholm University with Prof. Dr. Berit Olofsson
Design and Syntheses of Unsymmetrical Diaryliodonium Salts for Novel Polymerization Reactions (Bachelor’s Thesis)
Awards and
Fellowships
2020
Postdoctoral Fellowship by the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina
2020
PhD Award by the Boehringer Ingelheim-Stiftung
2016
Kekulé-Fellowship by the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI)
2016
Fellowship by the Graduate School of Excellence “MAterials science IN MainZ” (MAINZ)
2015
Awarded with the Holsteiner Study Award 2015/2016 of the CAU Kiel
2014
Awarded by the Department of Chemistry of the CAU Kiel: best B.Sc. Chem. degree 2013/2014
2013
Fellowship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2012
Fellowship by the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Stiftung (German Chemical Society, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh)
Memberships
2021
Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
2021
Member of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging, KNCV)
2021
Member of the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Block Consortium (ARC CBBC)
2017
Juniormember of the Gutenberg-Akademie (JGU Mainz).
2017
Member of the Executive Committee of the Gutenberg Council for Young Researchers (Gutenberg Nachwuchskolleg, GNK, JGU Mainz).
2016
Fellowship by the Graduate School of Excellence “MAterials science IN MainZ” (MAINZ)
2012
Member of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
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