About Our Group

We’re a team of curious chemists who love creating molecules with personality. Our research combines supramolecular chemistry, metal coordination, and dynamic chemical interactions to design molecules and materials with shape, motion, and function. These systems can recognize guests, respond to stimuli, and organize into larger structures with potential applications in sensing, catalysis, environmental remediation, and beyond.

We are especially interested in molecules with personality: hosts that capture other molecules or ions, metal-containing structures with tunable properties, and responsive materials that change color, emission, shape, or behavior under specific conditions. These ideas guide our work in sensing, self-assembly, catalysis, environmental remediation, and beyond.

In the lab, you’ll find us testing bold ideas, solving problems together, and good-naturedly debating whose turn it is to clean the rotary evaporator. We are proud of our diverse, welcoming, and collaborative environment, where every voice matters and creativity thrives.

What drives us is the joy of discovery, whether that comes from a perfectly purified sample, a strange molecular architecture, or a fresh way to approach a difficult problem.