Meet the team
Fredrik Schaufelberger is assistant professor of synthetic chemistry at University of Warwick and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He obtained his undergraduate degree from at KTH and ETH Zürich (2007-2012), followed by PhD studies at KTH in the area of supramolecular and dynamic covalent chemistry (with Olof Ramström). Following his dissertation, he moved to the group of David A. Leigh at the Univerity of Manchester with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2017-2020). In Manchester, he was studying functional molecular knots and chemically fuelled molecular assemblies such as rotaxanes. After a research stay with Molly M. Stevens at Imperial College London (2020-2021), where he was working on biosensing and drug delivery, he took up a position as assistant professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. In November 2024, he started as an assistant professor at the University of Warwick, UK. In his spare time, he loves to hang out with his family, read pretentious novels and play video games (especially 16-bit japanese role-playing games).
Anja Ramström is Phd student in the group since august 2022. She previously studied the MSc program in Molecular Science and Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and she did her MSc thesis in the group in spring 2022 on luminescent rotaxanes as reported molecular for biosensing. Her PhD research is based on investigations on the interface between artificial molecular machines and biological systems. Her research interests are synthetic organic chemistry for molecular machine synthesis and luminescence spectroscopy. In her spare time, she plays soccer, hang out with friends and play computer games.
Marius Gaedke is a postdoctoral researcher in the group since march 2022 supported by an Olle Engkvist fellowship. He is working on switchable rotaxanes in water and biorelevant media. Marius earned his doctorate at Freie Universität Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Christoph A. Schalley from 2016-2021, where he worked on redox-active crown/ammonium rotaxanes. In his spare time he likes to go hiking with his wife, dives into the world of finance and plays video/board games.
Daisy Pooler has been a postdoctoral researcher in the group since November 2023, working on biocompatible molecular machines. She received her MChem degree from the University of Manchester (UK) in 2018, where she studied chemically-fuelled molecular walkers in the group of Prof. David Leigh (and where she also met Fredrik). She then joined the group of Prof. Ben L. Feringa at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) as a PhD student, working on heterocyclic light-driven rotary molecular motors. Outside of the lab, she enjoys reading, cycling, and playing on her Nintendo Switch.
Stan van Dooren is a BSc intern in the group since January 2024, working on biocompatible molecular machines. He is doing his exchange studies from Avans University of Applied Sciences, and he has previous experience working on carbohydrate chemistry at Utrecht university. He is a big synthesis lover and an organic chemist at heart. Outside of the lab he enjoys reading, playing video games and mountain biking.
Alumni
Clarisse Marin: MSc Exchange student, april-july 2022. University Paris-Saclay and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris-Saclay, France.
Satyajit Das: Postdoc, april 2022-june 2023. Currently at University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Frantisek Stara: Erasmus Exchange student, january-june 2023. UCT Prague, Czech Republic.
Pernilla Öberg: MSc Student, january-october 2023, KTH, Sweden
Joonas Ryssy: Postdoc, august 2022-december 2023. Currently at Aalto University, Finland.
Ming-Tai Lee: MSc Student, january-june 2024, KTH, Sweden
Huseynagha Abasov: BSc Student, june-september 2024. Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey
Imre Küranel: BSc Student, july-october 2024. Boğaziçi University, Turkey