Curriculum Vitae

Alexandre Fürstenberg studied chemistry and biochemistry at the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva in Switzerland. He specialized in photochemistry and the ultrafast dynamics of biomolecules with Prof. Eric Vauthey at the University of Geneva for his PhD (2007), for which he was awarded the PhD Prize of the European Photochemistry Association (EPA) in 2008. After moving into single-molecule spectroscopy and imaging as a postdoc with Prof. W. E. Moerner at Stanford University (2008−2010), investigating the dynamics of single membrane proteins in collaboration with Prof. Brian Kobilka, he started his independent career in 2010 thanks to an Ambizione fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva (Department of Human Protein Sciences). After further research stays as a visiting assistant professor at The Rockefeller University in New York in the Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Signal Transduction led by Prof. Thomas P. Sakmar and at the Goethe University Frankfurt in the group of Prof. Mike Heilemann, he held lecturing appointments at the University of Fribourg and at the University of Geneva, while developing a spectroscopic platform for luminescent metal complexes in collaboration with Prof. Claude Piguet. Since 2020, he is a group leader and senior lecturer jointly between the Departments of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry and of Physical Chemistry. His research focuses on the development and application of quantitative fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy tools to study the dynamics of chemical and biological systems.

Alexandre Fürstenberg has taught a broad spectrum of undergraduate courses including general chemistry, spectroscopy, inorganic chemistry, and instrumental analysis. He currently teaches inorganic chemistry at different levels of the chemistry and biochemistry bachelor. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Photochemistry Association and of the Geneva Chemical Society.