Course catalogue
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Academic Programme
Implemented from September 2025
Analytical methods (IR and UV-Vis spectroscopies, NMR, MS) (5 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- Experimental methods on innovative research infrastructures - 5 ECTS
- Digital Micro-certification "The challenges of sustainable chemistry" - 10h
- Transferable skills : French language & interculturality (3 ECTS)
- Quantum mechanics towars quantum computing (5 ECTS)
- Winter school in Data Science (2 ECTS)
- Organic / Inorganic chemistry towards sustainability (5 ECTS)
- Kinetics and Electrochemistry (5 ECTS)
- Introduction to biophysics and microscopies for life science (5 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- Luminescence spectroscopy of Lanthanides (3 ECTS)
- Summer School in Entrepreneurship (5 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Polish course (3 ECTS)
- The molecules of life: from structure to chemical function (5 ECTS)
- Thermodynamics and soft matter (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to solid state (5 ECTS)
- Tech-infused perspectives on photochemical reaction dynamics (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Portuguese course (3 ECTS)
- Summer School in Entrepreneurship (5 ECTS)
- Solid State Physics (5 ECTS)
- Molecular Energetics (3 ECTS)
- Laboratory of Materials and Surface Analysis (5 ECTS)
- Interfacial Electrochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Interfaces, Colloids and Self-Assembly (6 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- 1-year research project - master thesis (equivalent 45 ECTS)
- Progress assessment of the research project (equivalent 6 ECTS)
- Weekly seminars (equivalent 4 ECTS)
- Special Topics in Chemistry (equivalent 5 ECTS)
- French language courses (3 ECTS)
- Nanosciences (6 ECTS)
- Medical applications of nanomaterials and radiations (6 ECTS)
- Top management, corporate law, and project writing for technology transfer and decision making (4 ECTS)
- Tracking ultrafast radiation-induced reactivity (3 ECTS)
- Applications for renewable energy and storage: solar fuels, batteries and hydrogen (6 ECTS) (6 ECTS)
- Scientific Writing and career objectives (2 ECTS)
- Surface Science and Nanostructuring at Surfaces (6 ECTS)
- Polymers for electronics and energy harvesting (5 ECTS)
- Electrochemical systems for fuel and electrolysis cells and batteries (6 ECTS)
- Project-based laboratory on device building (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Chemistry and Technology of Catalysis (5 ECTS)
Content
Part A: Mass Spectrometry
Introduction to Mass spectrometry and instrument components (gas phase ion source and mass analyzers).
Interpretation of electron impact fragmentation mass spectra of organic molecules.
Structural and sequence information obtained from tandem mass spectrometry.
Part B: Optical spectroscopies & Photophysical processes
When molecules and light meet…
Electronic transitions – UV-visible and fluorescence
Rovibrational spectroscopy – IR spectroscopy
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
Practicals
Mass spectrometry study on gas-phase protonated peptides
Fluorimetry: Polyatomic molecules in condensed phase
Infrared spectroscopy: Rotation vibration spectra of CO and HCl
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Aims
To gain an overview on the standard methods of optical spectroscopy (IR, UV-vis, fluo, NMR): associated spectral ranges, probed molecular properties, applications in analytical chemistry.
To understand the fundamental photochemical processes.
To gain knowledge about the chemical analysis of compounds using mass spectrometry
Pre-requiste
Basics on quantum mechanics (hamiltonien, states of a system)
Basics on classical mechanics (motion of solid bodies)
Description of a photon (as a particle, as an electromagnetic wave)
Teaching Staff
Anne Lafosse (Course Coordinator)
Debora Scuderi
Rachel Méallet-Renault
Claire Romanzin
Christie Aroulanda
Hours
Homework: 10% + Lab: 30% + Exam: 60%
Grading System
Lecture: 9 h
Tutorial: 9 h
Practical courses: 16 h