Kay Severin

Kay Severin is a Full Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Department of Chemistry (CHEM). He was born in Germany in 1967 and obtained his Ph.D. in 1995 with a thesis in the group of Prof. W. Beck, University of Munich. He joined the group of Prof. M. R. Ghadiri as a postdoctoral fellow and started independent research projects ("Habilitation") at the University of Munich in 1997. He became an assistant professor at EPFL in 2001 and was appointed Full Professor there since 2009. His research interests include supramolecular chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and preparative chemistry. He teaches courses such as Chemistry of Elements s and p, Inorganic Chemistry "Applications and spin-offs," and Supramolecular Chemistry.

Kay Severin is a researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) specializing in Synthetic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, and Nitrous Oxide. Her work focuses on the development of self-replicating peptides, bioorganometallic complexes, and dynamic combinatorial libraries for sensing applications. She has explored the synthesis of molecular nanostructures, coordination cages, and metallomacrocyclic ionophores for ion recognition. Her research also includes the study of multinuclear ruthenium complexes for anticancer activity and the design of chemosensors for amino acid detection. Severin's contributions span from supramolecular self-assembly to the functionalization of organometallic systems for biological and analytical applications.