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Our team and friends celebrating the 200 years of bencene at the 2025 Solvay Workshop: Aromaticity. @isra_group @FeringaLab @depena33

We are hiring! We are looking for a Postdoc in Catalytic Approaches toward Bio-Based Peptide Surfactants. Looking forward to hearing from you! Application deadline is January 12th 2026 For more information please check out the link 👇 werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/postd…

Re-ver-si-ble CPL inversion at the molecular level promoted by light and heat! This collaborative work between the @FeringaLab and our group, the PulSAr team @UnivAngers, is now online on ChemArXiv. Special congrats to @HardoinLouis and Eric Sidler!! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Thrilled to share our most recent work with @FeringaLab on switchable hydrogels! We combine the advantages of both light💡 and redox⚡️to get large-scale, patterned changes in gel properties (colour and swelling) with high spatio-temporal precision: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Combining noncovalent with dynamic covalent bonds constructs dual dynamic helical polymers that fold and recycle. Glad to see this long project finally coming out in @NatureChemistry @FeringaLab rdcu.be/eIQzd

Wow! A rare artifact from a simpler time: dial-up internet, flip phones, and great haircuts. Thank you for sharing!

@GavinCTsui It was great to meet you!

What an honour to meet the legend Prof. Ben Feringa @FeringaLab #OMCOS22

Another great collaboration with @SidlerEric and @FeringaLab is now published in @angew_chem! Building on our previous work, Eric prepared a few large, formally antiaromatic systems with interesting (chir)optical and redox properties. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

🔥 Hot of the press: Chiral induction and stable chiral memory via non-covalent host-guest binding now published in @angew_chem! One of my favourite projects and a super rewarding collaboration with @SidlerEric, Yohan and @FeringaLab! Hot paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of benzene's discovery and its extraordinary legacy, we are excited to announce that @RoySocChem will release a thematic special issue edited by @FeringaLab and @nazariolab. Read here "Benzene at 200", by Prof. Martín: chemistryworld.com/opinion/benzen…

Yesterday, I defended my PhD — closing one of the most enjoyable and rewarding chapters of my life with one of its most unforgettable days. Huge thanks to everyone at @FeringaLab, especially Ben, Lotte, and Lili, my thesis committee, friends, and family.

Our next seminar will be from @MarcoOvalleMA (UGroningen) and @JeanneCrassous (URennes) speaking this Thursday 29th April 09:30 (UK). Register at mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/ to attend and hear talks on helicenes and photoisomerisation!

I am super excited to present my PhD work at vMASC this Thursday! I'm also honored to share the (virtual) floor with @JeanneCrassous Register by following the link down if you want to join the free online seminar👇👇

Aaand now we also have a Post-Doc position on Biobased Butenolides as Acrylate Replacement for Coatings!

We have opened opened 3 more positions: PhD positions - 2x Artificial Molecular Machines - 1x The Origin of Homochirality 1x Engineering Doctorate (EngD) - Sustainable Process Design benferinga.com/vacancies/

With our recently co-founded startup Circolide we are looking for enthusiastic candidates who would like to pursue a Chemical Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Sustainable Process Design. Please find more information here: rug.nl/about-ug/work-…

👩‍🔬Our new paper is out in Chem! @FeringaLab. We unveil how light-driven rotary motors behave in lipid membranes—and why system-specific characterization is crucial. Structure & polarity shape membrane interaction and function. Read (or see comments): doi.org/10.1016/j.chem…

New from @FeringaLab: 'Diastereoselective C(sp3)–H acetoxylation of phosphoramidites' #OpenAccess 🔓 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Just published in @J_A_C_S, one of my main projects @FeringaLab on responsive crown ethers! Redox-switching? Light-switching? Why not both and get the best of all worlds, including guest shuttling, pseudorotaxanes, cascades and and (non)volatile states. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Great work Marco and Daniel!