Review Swiss Snow Symposium 2018
From January 26-28, members of the Swiss Young Chemists’ Association came together in Saas Fee for the 16th SwissSnowSymposium. After the participants’ registration and a following up Apéro, the welcoming dinner took place. Thereafter, two invited speakers shared their experience in two one-hour talks. First to present was Prof. Peter Chen (ETH Zürich), granting insights into his current research in a lecture titled «Bond strengths in the gas phase, in solution, and in silico: dispersion effects and big molecules». After his excellent presentation, Delia Mihaila (Publishing Director, MDPI AG) discussed the advantages of open access publishing and also explained how publishing might be done in the future. Next, a new concept was introduced to the SwissSnowSymposium by holding a panel discussion entitled «Career perspectives with a PhD degree». Four young PhDs, namely Dr. Sviatlana Siankevich (CTO & Co-founder, Embion Technologies SA), Dr. Matthew Wise (Corporate Strategy, ABB), Dr. Justus Tönnemann (Chemist Quality Assurance & Quality Systems, Carbogen Amcis), Dr. Gerald Bauer (Postdoctoral researcher, PSI) with distinctly different career path after their graduations gave a short presentations about their professional background and how their choices led to their current employment. Subsequently, the audience had the opportunity to ask questions and take actively part in the discussion to learn more about their possibilities when concluding university with a PhD degree. The day closed with two talks from PhD students.
On Saturday, the participants enjoyed the wonderful slopes of Saas Fee under a blue sky and bright sunshine. As a special bonus, Dr. Kathrin Brun (Wiley-VHCA), an accomplished ski instructor, offered ski lessons to interested participants for free. The scientific program continued in the late afternoon with the lecture of Dr. Dmitry Perekalin from the Russian Academy of Sciences headed «Cyclobutadiene complexes of platinum metals». The dinner helped everyone to regain strength for the upcoming poster session, which allowed each attendant to display his own research and moreover to discuss it with experts from various fields of chemistry. Afterwards our last invited speaker, Mag. Matthias Rizzi (Expert Process Safety, Consulting International), reported on «Quantitative ATEX-HAZOP - A holistic Approach tackling Process Safety by combining Risk and Ignition Source Analysis with Numerical Methods». The oral session proceeded with the six PhD students’ talks. Finally, the evening peaked in the award ceremony, where the winners of the poster session and best oral presentation were announced. The jury had by all means no easy task since all young scientists presented excellent research results in a professional manner. Lastly, Linda Bannwart (best oral presentation), Rachel Hevey (best poster) and Martha Zoumpoulaki (best poster runner-up) were awarded for their outstanding achievements. Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to everybody who contributed to the success of the event.
More information about the event is available on the website: scg.ch/sss/2018
Cornel Fink, SYCA
02.02.2018
IAESTE, New Internship Placements are Online
The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) is an organization for the exchange of students at higher education institutions wishing to obtain technical experience abroad.
The aim of IAESTE is:
to provide science & engineering students with training experience abroad that is relevant to their studies to offer Swiss employers well-qualified and motivated foreign trainees to be a source of cultural enrichment for trainees and their host employers
Interested in a traineeship abroad?
Are you enrolled at a Swiss university or an institute of applied science? Would you like to gain international work experience? Are you open-minded and interested in intercultural exchange? If this applies to you, an IAESTE traineeship is exactly the right choice for you.
Interested in foreign interns?
By employing a foreign trainee…
…you enlarge your international network.
…you strengthen the intercultural competence of your team and enrich your daily working life.
…you contribute to the promotion of Swiss students as young professionals, as for each internship in Switzerland, one internship abroad will be available for a Swiss student.
More information on https://www.iaeste.ch/en/
David Spichiger, SCS
01.11.2017
Metrohm Young Chemist Award 2018
Vor 75 Jahren legte Bertold Suhner, ein junger und brillanter Ingenieur, den Grundstein für das innovative Unternehmen, das Metrohm heute ist. Metrohm würdigt diesen Innovationsgeist und animiert junge Forscher und junge Forscherinnen, der Welt ihre Ideen zu präsentieren und den Metrohm Young Chemist Award zu gewinnen.
Der «Metrohm Young Chemist Award 2018» wird in allen Ländern mit einer lokalen Metrohm-Vertretung ausgeschrieben. Bewerber erhalte so die Chance, bis zu 7500 CHF sowie 4 VIP-Tickets für das St. Gallen OpenAir zu gewinnen. Einsendeschluss für den Abstract der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit ist der 30. März 2018.
Der Gewinner wird zur Preisverleihung anlässlich des 10-jährigen Jubiläums der Metrohm Schweiz AG zu den Tagen der offenen Tür am 01./02. Juni 2018 eingeladen.
Darüber hinaus werden aus allen nationalen Preisträgern die drei Besten ins Headquarters nach Herisau eingeladen.
Anmeldung: www.metrohm.com/de-ch/myca
Kontakt:
Dr. Markus Gude
Marketing
Metrom Schweiz AG
Areal Bleiche West
CH-4800 Zofingen
Telefon +41 (0)79 669 8636
David Spichiger, SCS
01.11.2017
EYCN Newsletter, July 2017
EYCN News
A new EYCN Board for the period 2017-2019 was elected at the 12th Delegates Assembly. Read more on our website.
EYCN supported an event "Treasure Hunt" by ReAcTiON (May 13th, 2017) at the Main Campus of the Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece). Report
We finally announce the winners of the first European Video Contest "Chemistry Rediscovered - Playing with chemical reactions". We received a total of 15 amazing videos from 8 different countries, and the quality and originality of all projects exceeded all our expectations! Please find the overall classification of this competition here. We thank again all the participants for their submissions!
EYCN in collaboration with Evonik Industries awarded a Poster prize at the 69th Irish Postgraduate Colloquium. The winners are: Aishling Dunne, DCU and Vuslat Buk, UCC. More information can be found here.
Upcoming Events
Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists (ChemCYS 2018), 21-23th February 2018, Blankenberge, Belgium. Early bird rates apply untill the 31st of July.
The International symposium on Bioinspired Macromolecular Systems, 6-8th November 2017, Aveiro, Portugal. Deadline for abstract submission is 6th, October.
The Austrian Chemistry Days 2017. 25-28th September, Salzburg, Austria. Regular registration untill September 5, 2017.
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Roche internship in Medicinal CHemistry (RiCH)(12 month)
Who we are
The Basel Medicinal Chemistry group is an integral part of the Roche Drug Discovery engine and represents how we innovate healthcare through the invention of differentiated medicines for treating diseases for unmet medical needs. This 12 month internship program integrates seamlessly into University degree programs and therefore we offer the most talented chemistry students the opportunity to gain valuable work experience in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry.
During the internship you will:
- be led by a chemistry laboratory head or senior laboratory associate and be part of a team involved in lead generation and/or lead optimization projects synthesizing novel molecules for innovative biological targets
- conduct laboratory research and work in a small team composed of 1 – 3 research associates to become experienced in the use of modern organic chemistry synthetic methods and purification technologies
- develop structure activity and structure property relationships via analyzing computed and measured multi-dimensional optimization parameters
- use electronic laboratory notebooks to accurately document your research results
- receive complementary education with an especially tailored tuition program through which you will deepen your understanding in organic and medicinal chemistry and improve your presentation skills
Those demonstrating excellence in these fields will also be invited to apply for an EFMC-Roche studentship award.
Who you are
You’re someone who wants to influence your own development. You’re looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.
We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a strong enthusiasm for Organic and Medicinal Chemistry and is interested in performing state of the art research in the pharmaceutical industry.
You are/have:
- a chemistry student in a University who in the 2018-2019 academic year will be in the
- penultimate or last year of study or at the “Year in Industry” junction of your studies
- the ambition to join a multi-cultural team which strives to bring medicines to patients
- goal-oriented team-worker and relish working in a dynamic multi-disciplinary environment
- passionate and pro-active about your further education in the area of organic/medicinal chemistry and may be planning to start a PhD after your degree
- excellent organizational skills, pro-active knowledge sharer and fluent in English
- Please apply via careers.roche.com until October 6th, 2017.
Contact person:
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