ERC consolidator grant to Syuzi Harutyunyan

Three University of Groningen researchers have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. They are Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Ming Cao and Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan. The European Research Council (ERC) awards these personal grants, each worth € 2 million, to outstanding scientists thus stimulating ground-breaking research in Europe.

Syuzanna Harutyunyan from the Stratingh Institute of Chemistry is currently an associate professor in the field of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. She gained her chemistry degrees in Armenia and Russia. Before she came to Groningen for a tenure track position, she conducted research in Poland and Belgium.Syuzanna joined Professor Feringa’s research group in 2003 as a postdoctoral research fellow. Professor Harutyunyan now concentrates her research on the development of new and more efficient chemical processes that can be usedin the pharmaceutical, fine chemical or agrochemical industries