| 2021 |
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| 13/11 |
Review: Catalysts:
A review with the title ”Homogeneous Catalyzed Valorization of Furanics: A Sustainable Bridge to Fuels and Chemicals” written by Maria and Sakhitha was published in Catalysts. Congratulations, Maria and Sakhitha!
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| 10/11 |
PhD exchange:
Mathias temporarily leaves our lab for six months to stay in the Betley lab at Harvard University, USA. See you in the spring, Mathias!
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| 15/10 |
Alexander presents a poster at IGSS4 in Odense. |
| 15/10 |
Research award:
Martin has been granted a Research Project 2 (Green Transition theme) grant. The granted amount by IRFD is DKK 5.6 million to cover a research period of 3 years in collaboration with Professor Shoubhik Das, Antwerp University. |
| 15/10 |
Research award:
Luca Piccirilli has been awarded a research award. The granted amount by Brødrene Hartmanns Foundation is DKK 85.000 to cover the acquisition instrumentation for our continuous flow system and for our Micro GC. Congratulations, Luca! |
| 06/10 |
Maria gives a lecture at Girls’ Day in Science DTU-2021. Read the announcement (Danish) here. |
| 01/07 |
Dr. Rajib Pramanick joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome, Rajib! |
| 15/06 |
Brenda Rabell Montiel joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome, Brenda! |
| 28/4 |
Research article: Catalysts
A research article with the title “Base-Free Synthesis of Furfurylamines from Biomass Furans Using Ru Pincer Complexes” written by Danielle was published in Catalysts. Congratulations, Danielle! |
| 01/04 |
Min Li joins the group as a PhD student on a China Scholarship Council (CSC) fellowship. Welcome, Min Li! |
| 03/03 |
Research award:
Luca Piccirilli has been awarded a research award. The granted amount by DTU Discovery Grant is DKK 110.000 to cover the acquisition of an instrument as well as travelling. Congratulations, Luca!
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| 17/02 |
Mathias Børsting is awarded the Master degree. Congratulations, Mathias! |
| 22/01 |
Ebbe Truels Larsen is awarded the Bachelor degree. Congratulations, Ebbe! |
| 2020 |
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| 13/12 |
Martin is giving a little sales pitch in relation to his newly awarded Carlsbergfondet Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship. Watch it here. |
| 03/12 |
Research award:
Martin has been awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship. The granted amount by the Carlsberg Foundation is DKK 5.0 million to cover a research period of three years. Read about the project here |
| 01/12 |
Research award:
Martin has been awarded a Novo Nordisk Project Grant in the Natural and Technical Sciences. The granted amount by the Novo Nordisk Foundation is DKK 3.0 million to cover a research period of three years. |
| 06/11 |
Research award:
Mathias Thor Nielsen has been awarded instrumentation award. an The granted amount by Taumoses Legat is DKK 50.000 to partly cover the acquisition of an electrochemical station. Congratulations, Mathias! |
| 21/10 |
Front cover in Green Chemistry.
Our research article “Efficient and Selective Catalytic Hydrogenation of Furanic Aldehydes using well defined Ru and Ir Pincer Complexes” written by Maria and Sakhitha has been selected as the Front cover of issue 20 in Green Chemistry. Congratulations, Maria and Sakhitha! |
| 25/09 |
Poster award:
Maria’s poster is selected as one of the best evaluated posters presented on Twitter at the online LatinXChem conference. On this occasion, Maria is invited to upload her poster to SciMeetings. Congratulations, Maria! |
| 01/09 |
Ebbe Truels Larsen joins the group as a bachelor student. Welcome, Ebbe! |
| 01/09 |
Martin Nielsen is now an Associate Professor of Catalytic Chemistry at DTU Chemistry |
| 20/08 |
Mathias Børsting joins the group as a master student. Welcome, Mathias! |
| 11/07 |
Review: Catalysts
A review with the title “Recent Progress with Pincer Transition Metal Catalysts for Sustainability” written by Luca and Danielle was published in Catalysts. Congratulations, Luca and Danielle! |
| 10/07 |
Travel award:
Mathias has been awarded a PhD exchange travel award.
The granted amount by the Danmark-Amerika Fondet is DKK 60.000 to partly cover the expenses for his PhD exchange stay. Congratulations, Mathias! |
| 06/07 |
Hot Article in Green Chemistry:
Our research article “Efficient and Selective Catalytic Hydrogenation of Furanic Aldehydes using well defined Ru and Ir Pincer Complexes” written by Maria and Sakhitha has been selected as a 2020 Green Chemistry Hot Article. Congratulations, Maria and Sakhitha! |
| 01/07 |
Nielsen group outing day. This time we went to Dyrehavsbakken, the oldest amusement park in the world. Besides trying many of the rides, we also enjoyed a nice lunch in the park. Good times! |
| 18/06 |
Research article: Green Chemistry
A research article with the title “Efficient and Selective Catalytic Hydrogenation of Furanic Aldehydes using well defined Ru and Ir Pincer Complexes”
written by Maria and Sakhitha was published in Green Chemistry. Congratulations, Maria and Sakhitha!
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| 09/06 |
Research award:
Martin has been awarded an instrumentation award.
The granted amount by COWIfonden is DKK 400.000 to cover the acquisition of a serial autoclave. Read the announcement |
| 15/05 |
Alexander Tobias Nikol joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome, Alexander! |
| 26/02 |
Travel award:
Mathias has been awarded a PhD exchange travel award.
The granted amount by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Travel Grant 2020 (EliteForsk Rejsestipendium 2020) is DKK 200.000 to partly cover the expenses for his PhD exchange stay. Read the announcement (Danish). Congratulations, Mathias!
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| 21/01 |
Travel award:
Mike has been awarded a PhD exchange travel award.
The granted amount by the William Demant Fonden is DKK 8.812 to partly cover the expenses for his PhD exchange stay. Congratulations, Mike!
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| 17/01 |
Luca gives a lecture at the New Year Seminar at DTU Chemistry. |
| 15/01 |
PhD exchange: Mike temporarily leaves our lab for four months to stay in the Schneider lab at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. See you in the spring, Mike! |
| 2019 |
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| 18/12 |
Rasmus Koch Qvist is awarded the Bachelor degree. Congratulations, Rasmus! |
| 18/12 |
Gleb Lematsko is awarded the Bachelor degree. Congratulations, Gleb! |
| 04/12 |
Travel award:
Mike has been awarded a PhD exchange travel award.
The granted amount by the Christian og Ottilia Brorsons Rejselegat for yngre videnskabsmænd og -kvinder is DKK 10.000 to partly cover the expenses for his PhD exchange stay. Congratulations, Mike!
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| 04/12 |
Travel award:
Mathias has been awarded a PhD exchange travel award.
The granted amount by the Christian og Ottilia Brorsons Rejselegat for yngre videnskabsmænd og -kvinder is DKK 15.000 to partly cover the expenses for his PhD exchange stay. Congratulations, Mathias! |
| 20/11 |
Mathias gives a lecture at KVUC. The topic is “Fra gymnasie til en forskningskarriere i kemi”. |
| 12/11 |
Travel award:
Mathias has been awarded a PhD exchange travel award.
The granted amount by the Kaj og Hermilla Ostenfeld’s Fond is DKK 30.000 to partly cover the expenses for his PhD exchange stay. Congratulations, Mathias! |
| 10/11 |
Travel award:
Mathias has been awarded a PhD exchange travel award.
The granted amount by the Reinholdt W. Jorck og Hustrus Fond is DKK 20.000 to partly cover the expenses for his PhD exchange stay. Congratulations, Mathias! |
| 25/10 |
Nielsen group outing day. This time we were cultural! We went to Tycho Brahe Planetarium to watch a movie about the stars and then to Glyptoteket to see a lot of sculptures. Of course, we also had lunch and dinner together as well. Good times!
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| 05/09 |
Rasmus Koch Qvist joins the group as a bachelor student. Welcome, Rasmus! |
| 01/09 |
Lucas dos Santos Mello joins the group as a PhD exchange student on a CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) scholarship. Welcome, Lucas! |
| 01/09 |
Zhenwei Ni joins the group as a PhD student on a China Scholarship Council (CSC) fellowship. Welcome, Zhenwei! |
| 28/08 |
Research article: Green Chemistry
A research article with the title “Efficient catalytic hydrogenation of alkyl levulinates to γ-valerolactone” written by Maria and Mike was published in Green Chemistry. The work was done in collaboration with Professor Márcio Weber Paixão from UFSCar, Brazil. Congratulations, Maria and Mike!
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| 31/07 |
Gleb Lematsko joins the group as a bachelor student. Welcome, Gleb! |
| 18/07 |
Review: Journal of Cluster Science
A review with the title: “Homogeneous Catalysis by Organometallic Polynuclear Clusters” written by Mathias and Maria was published in Journal of Cluster Science. Congratulations, Mathias and Maria!
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| 09/07 |
Maria gives a lecture at IUPAC2019 |
| 04/07 |
Nielsen group outing day. This time we went paintball shooting each other. Afterwards, we went for some street food at Reffen. Again, happy times! |
| 26/06 |
Mike presents a poster at EICC-5. |
| 26/06 |
Mike gives a lecture at EICC-5. |
| 19/06 |
Travel award: Mathias has been awarded a PhD exchange travel award. The granted amount by the Idella Foundation is DKK 40.000 to partly cover the expenses for his PhD exchange stay. Congratulations, Mathias!
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| 17/06 |
Travel Award. Maria has been awarded a conference travel grant. The granted amount by the Otto Mønsted Foundation is DKK 6.500 to partly cover the expenses for going to the 47th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (IUPAC2019). Congratulations, Maria! |
| 01/06 |
Sakhitha Koranchalil joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome, Sakhitha!
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| 20/05 |
Travel award. Mike has been awarded a conference travel grant. The granted amount by the Otto Mønsted Foundation is DKK 5.838 to partly cover the expenses for going to the 5th EuChems Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EICC-5). Congratulations, Mike! |
| 17/05 |
Best thesis award: Danielle’s PhD thesis has selected as the best thesis in chemistry of Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil. She is now nominated for the CAPES Thesis Awards 2019, where she will compete with other nominated candidates how are also 2018 PhD recipients from all other fields in Brazil. Congratulations, Danielle! |
| 24/04 |
Mike gives a lecture at IGSS3 in Odense |
| 24/04 |
Mathias presents a poster at Inorganic Graduate Student Seminar 3 (IGGS3) in Odense |
| 01/03 |
Weiguang Jin joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome, Weiguang! |
| 01/02 |
Danielle gives a lecture at the New Year Seminar at DTU Chemistry |
| 01/01 |
Luca Piccirilli continues in the group, now as a PhD student |
| 2018 |
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| 03/12 |
Nielsen group outing day. This time we went to an Escape Room, obviously with a lab theme. Afterwards, we went board gaming. Happy times! |
| 01/12 |
Luca Piccirilli joins the group as a research assistant. Welcome, Luca! |
| 08/11 |
Martin gives a lecture at the Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit & Exhibition (SIPS) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 01/11 |
Dr. Danielle Lobo Justo Pinheiro and Dr. Lilja Kristinsdóttir join the group as postdocs. Welcome, Lilja and Danielle! |
| 31/10 |
Maria wins the Eurotech talks: selling your science and yourself. Congratulations, Maria! |
| 29/10 |
Maria takes part of the EuroTech Postdoc Workshop at TU Eindhoven in Netherlands |
| 12/10 |
Martin gives a lecture at the 33rd Latin-American Congress of Chemistry in Havana, Cuba |
| 08/10 |
Travel award. Martin has awarded a conference travel grant. The granted amount by the Otto Mønsted Foundation is DKK 7.500 to partly cover the expenses for going to the SIPS conference |
| 07/09 |
Emil Christensen is awarded the Bachelor degree. Congratulations, Emil! |
| 06/09 |
Martin Alexander Bargum joins the group as a project student. Welcome, Martin! |
| 01/09 |
Mathias Thor Nielsen continues in the group, now as a PhD student |
| 27/08 |
Martin presents a poster at the 18th Nordic Symposium on Catalysis (NSC) in Copenhagen |
| 26/08 |
Maria gives a lecture at the 18th Nordic Symposium on Catalysis (NSC) in Copenhagen |
| 21/08 |
Maria presents a poster at the Poster Sci-Mix session and inorganic chemistry division at the 256th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in Boston, USA |
| 17/08 |
Maria takes part of the Postdoc to faculty workshop in Boston, USA, sponsored by ACS
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| 09/08 |
Research award Martin has been awarded an instrumentation award. The granted amount by Brødrene Hartmanns Foundation is DKK 77.260 to cover the acquisition of two new thermostats. |
| 01/08 |
Mathias Thor Nielsen joins the group as a research assistant. Welcome, Mathias! |
| 25/07 |
Sebastian Olivier Nymann Topalian is awarded the Bachelor degree. Congratulations, Sebastian! |
| 13/06 |
Martin gives a public talk on sustainable chemistry in Aalborg |
| 04/06 |
Research award Martin has been awarded an ERC-Support Programme grant. The granted amount by IRFD is DKK 1.2 million to cover a research period of two years. Read the announcement (Danish) |
| 05/05 |
Martin gives a lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Danish Chapter of Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) in Copenhagen |
| 02/05 |
Research award Martin has been awarded a Research Project 1 grant. The granted amount by IRFD is DKK 2.6 million to cover a research period of three years. Read the announcement |
| 01/05 |
Mike Steffen Bernhard Jørgensen joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome, Mike! |
| 01/03 |
Martin goes to Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil for two weeks to hold seminars and meet the chemistry faculty. Thank you, Professor Márcio Weber Paixão, for a very friendly and inspiring stay! |
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02/02
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Martin takes part of the 5th MCAA General Assembly & Annual Conference. |
| 01/02 |
Emil Christensen joins the group as a bachelor student. Welcome, Emil!
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| 01/02 |
Sebastian Olivier Nymann Topalian continues in the group, now as a bachelor student |
| 23/01 |
Research award
Martin has been awarded a VILLUM Young Investigator grant. The granted amount by VILLUM Foundation is DKK 9.9 million to cover a research period of five years. Read the article:' VILLUM FONDEN awards researchers EUR 5 million.'
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09/01
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Postdoc position available
Postdoc in Organometallic Catalysis for Sustainability funded by the VILLUM Young Investigator grant is available. Application deadline 02/02-18.
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| 08/01 |
Martin gives a lecture at Haldor Topsøe in Lyngby |
| 08/01 |
PhD position available
PhD scholarship in Organometallic Catalysis for Sustainability funded by the VILLUM Young Investigator grant is available. Application deadline 02/02-18
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| 2017 |
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| 06/12 |
DTU Sustain 2017
Martin represents the Danish Chapter of MCAA at this year’s DTU Sustain conference
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| 30/11 |
Martin takes part of the kick off meeting for the newly founded MCAA Danish Chapter
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| 03/11 |
Marie Curie Alumni Association, the Danish Chapter is established
Martin is a founding member and of the board of the new Danish Chapter of MCAA
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| 28/10 |
Paper: Topics in Catalysis
A paper entitled “Catalytic Oxidation of Allylic Alcohols to Methyl Esters” was published in Topics in Catalysis in collaboration with Søren Kegnæs. Top. Catal. 2017, 60, 1380-1386
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| 16/10 |
Dr. Rosa Maria Padilla Paz joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome, Maria!
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| 07/09 |
Sebastian Olivier Nymann Topalian joins the group as a project student. Welcome, Sebastian!
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| 01/07 |
Martin joins the DTU Chemistry faculty as an Assistant Professor |