About Prof. DMITRY KATAYEV

Dmitry Katayev was born in Kaluga, RU. He studied at D. I. Mendeleev University of Technology (Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)) where he obtained his MSc in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in 2008. He received his doctorate degree in the group of Prof. E. P. Kündig at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) in the end of 2012. Awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) fellowship, he joined the research group of Prof. LJ. Gooßen at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2015, he joined the group of Prof. A. Togni at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) under SNSF return fellowship. He was later awarded the SNSF Ambizione grant and the Holcim Stiftung, and he started his independent career as Principal Investigator at ETH Zürich in 2017.
As a recipient of the SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Grant, he joined the Department of Chemistry of the University of Fribourg as an Assistant Professor in early 2021. Since October 1st, 2022, he joined the University of Bern as an Assistant Professor with Tenure Track in Organic Chemistry.