Stefan Matile is a Full Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Geneva. He is also a founding member of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) in Chemical Biology and the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering and became an ERC Advanced Investigator in 2010. He is co-author of more than 250 publications, many in top journals (45 JACS, etc), and has delivered more than 230 lectures worldwide. Half of the more than 80 students (PhD, postdoc) he has trained so far are now active in academia (China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, USA, etc), others preferred a career in industry (Novartis, Roche, BASF, Nestle, Firmenich, etc). Educated at the University of Zurich (PhD, with Wolf Woggon) and Columbia University in New York (postdoc, with Koji Nakanishi), he started his independent academic career as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC, before moving to Geneva.
His research interests focus on molecules and supramolecular systems that are synthesized from scratch, have interesting functions, address lessons from nature and integrate unorthodox interactions.