Moran (assoc.) | Chemical catalysis – University of Ottawa

Joseph Moran was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1982. He obtained a B.Sc. in Chemistry in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry in 2009 with Professor André Beauchemin, both at the University of Ottawa. In 2010, he moved to the University of Texas at Austin for postdoctoral work with Professor Michael Krische. In 2012, he joined the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (ISIS) at the University of Strasbourg as assistant professor and director of the Chemical Catalysis Laboratory, where he was promoted to full professor in 2018. In the same year, he became the founding director of the International Graduate School in Complex Systems Chemistry. In 2023, he was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa, where he transferred his main activities in July 2024. Professor Moran's research aims to understand how life began, based on biological metabolism. His group is also interested in developing new conceptual approaches to catalysing organic reactions, such as extreme solvent effects and the use of virtual light-matter interactions.