Prof. Guillaume Berionni studied chemistry at the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay), Cergy-Pontoise (ESCOM), and Versailles (UVSQ).
He received in 2010 his PhD from the University of Versailles (Lavoisier Institute) for his research on physical organic and supramolecular chemistry under the supervision of Prof. F. Terrier and R. Goumont.
In 2010 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow under the guidance of Prof. Herbert Mayr and Prof. P. Knochel. His post-doctoral, and independant research on organometallic and organoboron chemistry has been supported by the Alexander-von-humbolt and the DAAD foundations. Since 2018 he is Professor of chemistry at the University of Namur (Belgium), where he is currently managing a research team of 5 PhD students (including an assistant), two post-doctoral fellows, a technician and 4 master students. He is actively involved in teaching, especially at the master's level.
Prof. Guillaume Berionni was awarded in 2022 an ERC consolidator grant. This ERC project "B-YOND" addresses important challenges in the quest for a sustainable future, since it aims at the development of new main-group catalysts that will benefit a variety of chemical technologies.
2022 ERC consolidator grant (Project B-YOND)
2021 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (attributed to promising researchers worldwide in the early stages of independent academic career)
2014 Klaus Römer award for postdoctoral researchers, LMU University, Munich - Germany
2012 Humboldt Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - Germany
Organic / Organometallic / Physical Organic Chemistry
Organoboron chemistry
Phosphorus chemistry
Spectroscopy
Reaction kinetics, mechanisms and catalysis
Chemical reactivity and reactivity scales
Lewis acids and superacids
Frustrated Lewis pairs catalysis
Boron Lewis acids
Evaluator for the European Research Council (ERC), the French national research agency (ANR) and the Belgian fund for research (FNRS).
2010 PhD in Chemistry from the University of Versailles - France