ECC9 in Dublin: Call for Abstract extended to January 15, 2024
As we move forward in the planning for 9th EuChemS Chemistry Congress (ECC-9), we want to ensure you are aware of some deadlines for the submission of your research for presentation at ECC-9
Abstract Submission Key Dates
Call for Abstracts Closes: Monday, 15th January 2024
Notification of Authors: Friday 23rd February 2024
Presentation formats: oral communications, poster presentations.
More information on https://euchems2024.org/programme/call-for-abstracts/
Abstracts may be submitted under the eight Congress themes and subthemes:
- Energy, Environment and Sustainability (including Emerging Sustainable Chemistry, Technologies, Biomass Valorisation, Green Synthetic Methodologies, Circular Bioeconomy, Food)
- Physical, Analytical and Computational Chemistry (including Physical chemistry of materials, Advances in physical chemistry and new techniques, New analytical methodologies and applications, Sensors, Theory and applications of computational chemistry, Machine Learning/AI)
- Advances in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (including Asymmetric Methodology, Inorganic Methodology, Green Synthetic Methodologies)
- Chemistry Meets Biology For Health (including Medicinal, Bioinorganic, Bioorganometallic, Radiochemistry, Food and Nutrition)
- Catalysis (including Organometallic Catalysis, Organocatalysis, Biocatalysis, Photoredox Catalysis, Electrocatalysis)
- Supramolecular Chemistry (including Chirality, Molecular Machines, Dissipative Systems, MOFs, Molecular Nanotopology, Sensors, Metallo-Supramolecular Chemistry, Molecular Logic, Host-Guest Chemistry, Self-Assembly Materials and Higher Order Structures)
- Nanochemistry/Materials (including Organic and Inorganic, Material Science, Devices, Circuits, Systems, Neuromorphic Networks, and Bio-Inspired Computing)
- Education, History, Cultural Heritage, and Ethics in Chemistry
David Spichiger, SCS
10.01.2024
Dr. Gordon Honeyman started as the new Technical Editor of CHIMIA
On November 1st, Gordon Honeyman started the role as Technical Editor of CHIMIA and will take over from Gillian Harvey at the end of January.
Dr. Honeyman, originally from Glasgow, Scotland and now living in Bern, since 2019, is 45 years old. He received his MSc in Chemistry and PhD from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Then moving into industry to work for CIBA and then to a smaller pharmaceutical drug delivery company and then finally onto a start-up involved in revolutionary materials for contact lenses, where he was the senior polymer scientist and project manager. Since moving to Switzerland Gordon has worked as a laboratory manager at the University of Bern and is the COO and co-founder of inSEIT AG based in Bern.
David Spichiger, SCS
09.01.2024
EuChemS Magazine, December 2023
EuChemS News, Policy News, Events, Awards
Find our monthly compilation of chemistry- and science-related European policy developments in this newsletter! You will also find EuChemS' activities and news here. Take a look at our Headline Stories or Read EuChemS Magazine online!
Editorial
EuChemS News
- New EuChemS Executive Board Members
- Working group on inclusivity in research assessment to form within CoARA
- Two new Professional Networks in EuChemS
- Chemists from Bosnia and Herzegovina to become EuChemS Members from 2024
Policy News
- ECHA and ENVI discussed EU Chemical policy
- Developments on Horizon Programme as the end of 2023 draws near
- CLP revision agreement reached on Hazardous Chemicals
- EU agencies sign statement on joint action
Awards
Read the full magazine on: https://www.magazine.euchems.eu/
David Spichiger, SCS
19.12.2023
SCS Award Winners 2024
It’s our pleasure to announce the winners of the 2024 SCS Scientific Award Programs. We would like to sincerely congratulate all winners for their outstanding scientific contributions, and we are looking forward to the Swiss Chemistry Science Night in Bern on September 20, 2024, where the official award ceremonies will take place. Award lectures will be organized as part of the program of one of our upcoming events.
Paracelsus Prize 2024
Prof. Armido Studer, Universität Münster
is awarded for his outstanding contribution towards the development of novel radical-based methodologies.
The prize is endowed with CHF 20’000 and a medal in gold. The award lecture will take place at the Bern Symposium on Radical Chemistry in Bern on June 27-28, 2024.
Links:
Paracelsus Prize Website
Website Prof. Studer
Picture: A. Studer, uni-muenster.de
Werner Prize 2024
Prof. Athina Anastasaki, ETH Zurich
receives the prize for her excellence in research spanning across the broad areas of polymer synthesis, polymer self-assembly and chemi-cal recycling, also referred to as depolymerization.
The prize is endowed with CHF 10’000 and a medal in bronze. The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Fribourg on September 5, 2024.
Links:
Werner Prize website
Website Prof. Anastasaki
Picture: A. Anastasaki
Sandmeyer Prize 2024
The Eawag team “Advanced wastewater treatment”
namely Prof. Urs von Gunten, EPFL Lausanne/Eawag, Prof. Juliane Hollender, ETH Zurich, Dr. Christa McArdell, Dr. Adriano Joss, Marc Böhler and Dr. Christian Abegglen, Eawag, and Prof. em. Hansruedi Siegrist, ETH Zurich,
is awarded in recognition of the team’s outstanding achievements in using chemistry to address a challenge of large societal im-portance: securing clean water.
The award is endowed with CHF 20’000. The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Fribourg on September 5, 2024, and the 17. Freiburger Symposium in spring 2025.
Links:
Sandmeyer Prize Website
Website Department Water Resources and Drinking Water
SCS Senior Industrial Science Award 2024
Dr. Michel Muehlebach, Syngenta Crop Protection AG
receives the prize for his impactful scientific contributions across two different product lines that have been critical to the discovery of two active ingredients, namely the herbicide Pinoxaden and the insecticide TINIVION™ technology (Spiropidion).
The prize is endowed with CHF 10’000. The award lecture will take place at the Swiss Industrial Chemistry Symposium in Basel on January 31, 2025.
Picture: M. Muehlebach
SCS Industrial Science Award 2024
Dr. Rosa Maria Rodriguez Sarmiento, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
receives the prize for her impactful contributions to numerous research initiatives in various therapeutic areas such as CNS and rare diseases, as well as Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases coupled with her influence on the scientific community both within and outside the company.
The award is endowed with CHF 7’000. The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Fribourg on September 5, 2024.
Links:
Website SCS Industrial Science Award Program
Picture: R. M. Rodirguez Sarmiento
Swiss Green & Sustainable Chemistry Award 2024
Prof. Rebecca Buller, ZHAW Wädenswil
receives the prize for her extraordinary achievements in making state of the art enzyme catalysis easily and widely accessible for industrial use, that have become indispensable assets in moving toward a sustainable chemical industry in Switzerland and beyond.
The award is endowed with CHF 10’000 and is sponsored by Syngenta Crop Protection AG. The award lecture will take place at the SCS Spring Meeting 2024 in Basel on June 7, 2024.
Links:
Website Swiss Green & Sustainable Chemistry Award
R. Buller, Competence Center for Biocatalysis, ZHAW
Picture: zhaw.ch
METAS Award 2024
Dr. Andrea Rösch, Agroscope
receives the prize for the development of a comprehensive measuring method for around 150 pesticides in soil. Quantification is based on matrix-matched internal standards calibration, using 95 isotopically labelled analyte analogues. Issues such as proper sampling and applicability to routine private/cantonal laboratories were also addressed.
The prize is endowed with CHF 5'000 and a certificate. The award lecture is planned at the CHanalysis in Beatenberg on April 10-12, 2024.
Links:
METAS Award Website
Federal Institute of Metrology, METAS
Picture: A. Rösch
Balmer Prize 2024
Dr. Klemens Koch, Gymnasium Biel-Seeland und PHBern
wird geehrt für seine unermüdliche und einflussreiche Arbeit für einen guten Chemieunterricht in der Schweiz und im angrenzenden Ausland, welche durch die grosse Fülle und Breite an Aktivitäten und Initiativen über eine lange Zeitdauer besticht.
Der Preis ist mit CHF 4’000 und einer Bronze Medaille dotiert.
Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der ChemEdu 2025 in Zurich und eventuell am Zentralkurs Chemie in Winterthur vom 9.-11. Oktober 2024 statt.
Links:
Balmer Prize Website
Picture: chem.scnat.ch
Dr. Max Lüthi Prize 2024
Frau Céline Spack, HEIA Fribourg
für ihre herausragende Bachelorarbeit «Nachweis von Torf in Erdproben mithilfe von Biomarkern».
Der Preis ist mit CHF 1’000 und einer Bronze Medaille dotiert.
Links:
Dr. Max Lüthi Preis Website
Picture: C. Spack
DMCCB PhD Thesis Prize 2024
Dr. Jennifer Müller, ETH Zurich, group of Prof. K.-H. Altmann
is honored for her thesis « Synthesis of Tyrosine- and Tryptophan-based LAT1 Inhibitors as Potential Antitumor Agents»
Picture: LinkedIn, Jennifer Müller
and
Dr. Lukas Schneider, University of Basel, group of Prof. D. Gillingham
is honored for his thesis « A novel selection approach for DNA-encoded libraries using terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase»
Picture: LinkedIn, Lukas Schneider
Each prize is endowed with a certificate and a cash check of CHF 1’500. The award lectures will take place at the DMCCB Basel Symposium on February 12, 2024.
Links:
Website DMCCB PhD Prize
David Spichiger, Céline Wittwer, SCS
28.11.2023
SNSF Scientific Image Competition
Get your cameras! Give Swiss research a face!
The SNSF Scientific Image Competition encourages researchers working in Switzerland to present their works to the public and the media. Photographs, images and videos will be rated in terms of their aesthetic quality and their ability to inspire and amaze, to convey or illustrate knowledge, to tell a human story or to let us discover a new universe. All the entries to the competition (almost 2800 to date) are available in our online gallery on Flickr.
Categories of the competition
- Object of study (image)
- Women and men of science
- Locations and instruments
- Video loop
The competition is held annually. An international jury will meet at the beginning of the year and award a CHF 1,000 prize in each category for the winning entry, as well as CHF 250 for each distinction. The award-winning works are announced in April or May, displayed in an exhibition at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography and made available to the public and the media, as well as to scientific institutions.
The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2024. The winning images will be exhibited at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in May 2024.
More information on the SNSF Scientific Image Competition web page.
David Spichiger, SCS
20.11.2023
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