Johannes Schörgenhumer | Senior Scientist - Head of UZH HTEL
University of Zurich

Johannes graduated 2015 in Chemical Engineering at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria, where he also completed his doctoral studies on asymmetric organocatalysis, transition metal catalysis and computational chemistry in the group of Prof. Mario Waser. Right after finishing the PhD in 2019, Johannes was awarded a research grant by the University of Zurich (UZH), that allowed him to work as a postdoctoral associate in the group of Cristina Nevado at UZH and to expand his chemical portfolio to include radical chemistry, photoredox and Ni catalysis.  In 2023, Johannes transitioned into his current role as a Senior Scientist at the UZH leading the development of the new High-Throughput-Experimentation Lab (HTEL) at the UZH Department of Chemistry. This challenge has involved infrastructural and financial planning, device acquisition and implementation, softwareengineering, lab and project managment. After a long time in the making, the vision of the UZH HTEL is now finally coming to live, assuming operation in 2025. Along the development of the new lab, Johannes has taken lead to develop a new exciting study programme at UZH, "Lab Automation and Chemical Data Science", which will officially launch in autumn 2025.