Yann PRESSEL
4 rue de Franche-Comté
F - 68170 Rixheim
(FRANCE)

Curriculum Vitae

Birthday: 09/20/1978

1997-2001 : "Dipl.Ing. (F.H.) at the Europa Fachhochschule Fresenius (Idstein, Germany)

"Diplomarbeit" under the supervision of Pr. Olivier Riant at the "Université catholique de Louvain" (Belgium):
"Asymmetric synthesis of homoallylic alcools using low valent titanium complexes."

August 1998 : Internship at the "Fresenius Institut" (Taunusstein, Germany)

1999 : Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

2001-2002 : 1st year of DEA at the laboratory of the Pr. Olivier Riant at the "Université catholique de Louvain" (Belgium)

2002-2003 : 2nd year of DEA and PhD beginning at the laboratory of the Pr. Olivier Riant at the "Université catholique de Louvain" (Belgium)

Technical skills: gas chromatography, NMR (1H and 13C), FT-IR, polarmetry.

Languages: German (good) and English (good).

Supervision: 2003 supervision of a post-doc during 6 months:
Application of N,S-chelating chiral ligands and zinc complex in catalytic asymmetric hydrosilylation.

Meeting: Y. Pressel, O. Riant, 7th Sigma-Aldrich Organic Synthesis Meeting,, Spa (Belgium), December 4-5 2003: Asymmetric hydrosilylation of prochiral ketones catalyzed by N,S-zinc complexes.