Dr Jordan Berreur
Lecturer - Since October 2025
Previous: PhD - University of Strasbourg, France; PDRA: University of Bristol, UK (Dr Beatrice Collins and Prof Jonathan Clayden), University of Manchester, UK (Prof Anthony Green and Prof Sam Hay)
Publications: ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 14456–14468; Nature, 2025, 644, 96–101; J. Phys. Chem. B, 2025, 129, 1555–1562; Science of Synthesis: Dynamic Kinetic Resolution (DKR) and Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformations (DYKAT), Ed.: Thieme: Stuttgart (2023); Vol. 1, p. 441–483; Acc. Chem. Res. 2022, 55, 3362–3375; Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202202564; Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 5289–5295; J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 7751–7761.
Funding: UoM Chemistry Lectureship
Biography: I received my MSci from the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse, France, together with a chemical engineering degree from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse (ENSCMu) in 2017. I then moved to Strasbourg to pursue a PhD at the Laboratoire d’Innovation Moléculaire et Applications (CNRS/University of Strasbourg), under the supervision of Dr Frédéric Leroux and Dr Armen Panossian, working on the development of chiral, metal-free Lewis acids and their application in asymmetric catalysis. In 2021, I joined the University of Bristol as a PDRA working with Dr Beatrice Collins and Prof Jonathan Clayden on the development of biocatalytically driven autonomous molecular motors. In 2024, I moved to Manchester to work with Prof Anthony Green and Prof Sam Hay, where I contributed to investigations into an enzyme for photoelectrocyclisation reactions. I also had the opportunity to study quantum-mechanical tunnelling along enzyme evolution trajectories and to explore new reactivities for the Morita–Baylis–Hillman enzymes developed previously in the Green group. I joined the Procter group as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry in October 2025. Outside of chemistry, I enjoy playing music, board games, and learning languages.
Lecturer - Since October 2025
Previous: PhD - University of Strasbourg, France; PDRA: University of Bristol, UK (Dr Beatrice Collins and Prof Jonathan Clayden), University of Manchester, UK (Prof Anthony Green and Prof Sam Hay)
Publications: ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 14456–14468; Nature, 2025, 644, 96–101; J. Phys. Chem. B, 2025, 129, 1555–1562; Science of Synthesis: Dynamic Kinetic Resolution (DKR) and Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformations (DYKAT), Ed.: Thieme: Stuttgart (2023); Vol. 1, p. 441–483; Acc. Chem. Res. 2022, 55, 3362–3375; Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202202564; Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 5289–5295; J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 7751–7761.
Funding: UoM Chemistry Lectureship
Biography: I received my MSci from the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse, France, together with a chemical engineering degree from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Mulhouse (ENSCMu) in 2017. I then moved to Strasbourg to pursue a PhD at the Laboratoire d’Innovation Moléculaire et Applications (CNRS/University of Strasbourg), under the supervision of Dr Frédéric Leroux and Dr Armen Panossian, working on the development of chiral, metal-free Lewis acids and their application in asymmetric catalysis. In 2021, I joined the University of Bristol as a PDRA working with Dr Beatrice Collins and Prof Jonathan Clayden on the development of biocatalytically driven autonomous molecular motors. In 2024, I moved to Manchester to work with Prof Anthony Green and Prof Sam Hay, where I contributed to investigations into an enzyme for photoelectrocyclisation reactions. I also had the opportunity to study quantum-mechanical tunnelling along enzyme evolution trajectories and to explore new reactivities for the Morita–Baylis–Hillman enzymes developed previously in the Green group. I joined the Procter group as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry in October 2025. Outside of chemistry, I enjoy playing music, board games, and learning languages.