Staff member

Guillaume BERIONNI

Faculties/Departments/Services
Chemistry Department
Research groups
Namur Institute of Structured Matter (NISM) - Professor of Chemistry
Location : Building Chimie
Rue Grafé, 2b - 5000, Namur
Door 311
Committees
Conseil de la Faculté des Sciences
 

Introduction

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.

Awards

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

Areas of expertise

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

 

External responsibilities

Evaluator for the European Research Council (ERC), the French national research agency (ANR) and the Belgian fund for research (FNRS).

Degrees

2010    PhD in Chemistry from the University of Versailles - France