Call for applications for a JSP fellowship at the Bürgenstock Conference 2019

The ‘SCS Conference on Stereochemistry’, better known as ‘Bürgenstock Conference’, is an outstanding international chemistry meeting of high scientific quality, with an optimal setting for intense inter-disciplinary discussion.

The 54^th ‘Bürgenstock Conference’ will take place in Brunnen, May 5-9, 2019 at Seehotel Waldstätterhof Brunnen. 

Junior Scientists Participation Fellowships - The Scientific Leaders of the next Generation!

Thanks to the Division of Fundamental Research of the Swiss Chemical Society and the support of the industrial participants, every year 12-16 young promising European scientists (including Russia and Israel) at the beginning of their academic careers have received a fellowship to participate to the Bürgenstock conference. The intense interactions between junior and senior scientists have inspired much frontier research and are at the origin of many fruitful scientific collaborations.

The Organizing Committee asks leading scientists, former Presidents of the ‘Bürgenstock Conferences’, as well as Presidents of National Academies of Science to nominate candidates at the beginning of their career (< less than 5 years as independent group leader) for supported participation. The (typically) long list of candidates, complemented by spontaneous applications of interested young researchers, is reviewed by the President together with the Organizing Committee. They select a group of 12-16 junior scientists for support based on scientific excellence and diversity. A successfully completed PhD thesis is a prerequisite for consideration.

Since 2019, to promote early world-wide interactions among leading scientists of the next generation, a maximum of two fellowships each will be attributed to young scientists from North America and Asia/Oceania/Africa respectively. Nominations will be done exclusively by the Bürgenstock speakers from these areas of the last two years. Self-nominations are not possible.

The application for a JSP fellowship should include:

• a CV
• a publication list and
• at least one letter of reference

It should be sent to Prof. Jérôme Waser from the Organizing Committee ()
Deadline: December 1st, 2018.

List of JSP Fellows 2018

Website of the Bürgenstock Conference 2019

David Spichiger, SCS
12.10.2018

Prix Schläfli (since 1866), call for nominations

The Prix Schläfli, one of the oldest science prizes in Switzerland (since 1866), is awarded by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) to young scientists for excellent articles resulting from PhDs in each one of the following natural sciences disciplines:

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Geosciences
• Physics

Eligible are young researchers who did their doctoral thesis at a Swiss University or Swiss nationals who did their PhD thesis abroad.

Candidates must have defended their doctoral thesis between 1 November 2015 and 31 October 2018. Nominations can be submitted by the supervisor of the candidate or by a SCNAT member society.

A jury is established for each of the four disciplines in order to evaluate the nominations. Prize consists of CHF 5000 and support for a conference participation in each of the scientific fields.

Nominations are submitted via an online form before 31 October 2018 (scnat.ch/prixschlaefli). Please consult the guidelines before applying: scnat.ch/prixschlaefli

Contact details:
Swiss Academy of Sciences
House of Academies
Laupenstrasse 7
P.O. Box
3001 Bern

Dr Anne Jacob
Phone +41 31 306 93 05

Ruzicka-Prize 2018: call for nominations

The Ruzicka-Prize is awarded each year to a young scientist for her/his outstanding, published contribution in the field of chemistry, achieved either in Switzerland or by a Swiss citizen abroad. 

Proposals for candidates (age limit 40 years) may be submitted until September 25, 2018 (date of receipt) to the

Vice-President Research and Corporate Relations
Prof. Dr. Detlef Günther
ETH Zürich / HG F 57
Rämistrasse 101
CH-8092 Zürich

More details on: 
https://www.chab.ethz.ch/outreach/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/ruzicka-preis.html

David Spichiger, SCS
06.06.2018 

Review and Photos SCS Spring Meeting 2018

On Friday, April 6, 2018 the SCS Spring Meeting 2018 took place at University of Neuchâtel. Five international experts gave an insight view into their current research and gave a lecture on the symposium topic «Bio-Inspired Chemistry».

Lectures of the SCS Spring Meeting 2018

Werner Prize Lectures 2018

The SCS President, Alain De Mesmaeker, also awarded the Werner Prize 2018 to Prof. Sandra Luber, University of Zurich for her independent research as young professors.

More details about the program are available on the symposium website

http://scg.ch/springmeeting/2018

We thank all sponsors and exhibitors for their generous support that allowed us to organize this fantastic event:
Sponsors: SISF, SCNAT, SATW, MDPI, ChemPubSoc and Helvetica
Exhibitors: abcr GmbH, IGZ Instruments, Magritec, Merck

Photos of the Spring Meeting 2018

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David Spichiger, SCS
19.04.2018