Nathan Wybo

PhD Student

E-mail address:  nathan.wybo[at]etu.unistra.fr

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-wybo/

Key-words: Biobased Polymers, Green Chemistry, Lignin, Non-isocyanate Polyurethanes (NIPUs).

PhD funding from the ANR BIOPOLIOL (ANR-21-CE43-0026)

Member of the Département Ingénierie des Polymères, research team BioTeam at ICPEES.

1 publication: N. Wybo, A. Duval, L. Avérous, Benign and Selective Amination of Lignins towards Aromatic Biobased Building Blocks with Primary Amines, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202403806. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202403806

1 award: Johan Gullichsen award 2024 (best student presentation at NWBC2024)

Research objective

My PhD project, supervised by Dr. Antoine Duval (SOPREMA) and Pr. Luc Avérous (ICPEES) aims at producing lignin-based non-isocyanate polyurethanes (L-NIPUs) through green chemistry procedures. The projects tackles two of the main challenges with polyurethanes : turning towards renewable feedstocks and removing the toxic isocyanates from the synthesis. I work both on the synthesis of suitable building blocks from lignins and on the production and characterization of lignin-based polymers.

Academic background

  • October 2022 - now : PhD student at ICPEES
  • 2022 : R&D internship, Metgen (Finland), Jonas Hoisko
  • 2021-2022 : Master in Chemical engineering, Sorbonne Université
  • 2017-2021: Teacher Chemistry, Physics & Sustainability (French CPGE and High school)
  • 2017-2018 : Master in Education & Training, Université Savoie – Mont Blanc
  • 2017 : National major of the French Agrégation de Chimie
  • 2016 : Research Internship, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology

Drug Research Program, Pr. Jari Yli-Kauhaluoma

  • 2015 : Research Internship, ENS de Lyon, Team Chimie Supramoléculaire et Chimie Biologique (CSCB), Dr. Christophe Bucher
  • 2012-2017 : Bachelor & Master in Chemistry, ENS de Lyon

 

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