SCS Foundation welcomes its new director: Dr. Franziska Schumacher

It's our great pleasure to welcome Dr. Franziska Schumacher as the Director of the SCS Foundation as of January 1, 2026.

Throughout her professional career, Franziska Schumacher has always been dedicated to training young adults and promoting higher education, first as a teacher and university lecturer, then as a faculty and teaching course administrator. With a strong academic background and extensive leadership experience in higher education, Franziska is the perfect fit to further develop the SCS Foundation. 

Website of the SCS Foundation: https://scs-foundation.ch 

The SCS Foundation's activities include

To ensure a smooth transition, Hans Peter Lüthi, who's been the director since 2017, will remain with us until end of March. We already take this opportunity to warmly thank Hans Peter for his work for the Foundation, and for his outstanding dedication for the whole chemistry community in general, be it in Switzerland or internationally.

David Spichiger, SCS
21.01.2026

EuChemS Magazine: January 2026

Policy, research and community perspectives on chemistry in Europe and beyond

Discover our monthly overview of key science and policy developments across Europe, with chemistry at their core, alongside the latest news and activities from EuChemS. Explore the headline stories below or dive deeper by accessing the full magazine via EuChemS Magazine Online

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David Spichiger, SCS
15.01.2026

10th European Chemistry Congress (ECCC10): Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to January 20, 2026



Dear Members of the SCS
 
The 10th European Chemistry Congress (ECCC10*), hosted by the Royal Flemish Chemical Society (KVCV), is a platform spanning most of today's "hot topics" in chemistry and is featuring an impressive lineup of speakers.
 
Those of you who participated in the ECC9 in Dublin in 2024, or who had coworkers present there, will have excellent memories or will have gotten enthusiastic feedback. 
 
Our Swiss community will be represented by three invited speakers -Philippe Schwaller, Javier Pérez-Ramirez, and Maria Lukatskaya. Looking at the list of participants we see still a huge potential. Only half al dozen of abstracts from Swiss bases researchers are submitted so far. 
 
As a member society of EuChemS, we want the ECC series of conferences to become a European signature event in our field. And, even more important: We want to be represented by a team reflecting the quality and importance of chemical research in Switzerland.
 
The SCS Board of Directors and the board of the SCS Division of Fundamental Research would therefore like to motivate you to submit an abstract and ask you to bring the event to the attention of your colleagues! The deadline for abstract submission will end on January 20.
 
Thank you very much for your cooperation and support!
 
With best regards
Dr. Hans Peter Lüthi, Member of the SCS Board
Prof. Thomas Bürgi, President of the DFR

Hans Peter Lüthi, SCS
09.01.2026

The SNSF Scientific Image Competition 2026 is now open

Showcase the beauty of your research and share your daily life as a scientist! The SNSF invites you to take part in its image competition. Submission deadline: 2 February 2026

Be it laboratory instruments or field research, microscopy or digital simulation, photographic documentation or short videos: The SNSF competition is looking for the most beautiful images from the world of research. Researchers working in Switzerland and Liechtenstein are invited to submit their images and videos.

Exhibition at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography

The Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography will exhibit the prize-winning images from 8 to 31 May 2026 and will host the award ceremony. An SNSF online gallery features all the images and videos submitted to the competition since its inauguration in 2017 – more than 3,500 in total. And each week, a new image is published on the SNSF’s Instagram channel.

An international jury will award a first prize and several honourable mentions in each competition category. The jury will be chaired by Patrick Gyger, director of the Plateforme 10 museums, and will include biologist Alex Jordan; photographer Andri Pol; Jessica Hallett, media editor at Nature magazine; Tess de Ruiter, curator of art-science projects; and Aurélie Saliba, strategic project manager for Adobe Stock.

Participation requirements

The competition is open to anyone employed as a researcher at a higher education or research institution in Switzerland or Liechtenstein. Students working on research projects are also eligible to participate. Submitted works can be produced as part of international collaborations. All submissions must have been produced after 1 January 2025.

The four competition categories include:

  • object of study
  • places and tools of research
  • women and men of science
  • short videos

The submission deadline is 2 February 2026.

David Spichiger, SCS / SNSF
09.01.2026

EuChemS Magazine: December 2025

Policy, research and community perspectives on chemistry in Europe and beyond

Explore our monthly compilation of science-related policy developments in Europe and the latest EuChemS news in this newsletter. Check out our headline stories or read the EuChemS Magazine Online

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David Spichiger, SCS
20.12.2025

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