Murielle Delley has been appointed as Assistant Professor
NewsThe chemist Murielle Delley researches the fundamentals and mode of action of catalysts. Now the President’s Board of the University of Basel has appointed her as a new Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Furthermore, Professor Randall Platt has been promoted to Associate Professor of Biological Engineering.
Professor Murielle Delley has been a research group leader at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Basel since 2020. The also became a member of the SNI network in 2020.
She then conducted postdoctoral research at Yale University in New Haven (USA) before being awarded both a PRIMA grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and a Branco Weiss Fellowship in 2020. Both funding programs enabled the researcher to implement her own projects in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis for five years – now as an assistant professor of chemistry (without tenure track) at the Faculty of Science of the University of Basel.
Through her research, Delley is working towards more sustainable chemical technologies by developing abundant materials as catalysts in chemical transformations and by exploring new controls on catalysis.