ChemViews Magazine: The Chemistry of Complex Systems
This year’s Spring Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) was held at the University of Basel, Switzerland, on April 24. The meeting included five plenary talks, the presentation of the Werner Prize, and the General Assembly of the SCS. It was organized by Professor Thomas R. Ward and Professor Marcal Mayor from the University of Basel.
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Article by Vera Koester, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
David Spichiger, SCS
30.04.2015
Prof. Detlef Günther elected as ETH Executive Board member
Chemist Detlef Günther is set to join the ETH Executive Board. The ETH Board has elected the 50-year-old professor of analytical chemistry as the new Vice President Research and Corporate Relations. Günther is taking over from Roland Siegwart, who will return to his professorship at the beginning of 2015.
Text: www.ethz.ch
Picture: Oliver Bartenschlager / ETH Zürich
Many of the minerals that adorn the desk in Detlef Günther's office have a story behind them. He found the rock crystal above Vättis in the Tamina valley, the cassiterite in Bolivia and the tourmaline in Brazil – all souvenirs from an extraordinary trip that also took him to Mexico. In 2009 he was dumbstruck by what he saw underground when he visited the Naica Mine with a team of doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows. Tree trunk-sized gypsum crystals of astonishing beauty towered over him. Not that it was possible to enjoy it for long, he explains: temperatures in the cavern averaged 60 degrees, and humidity was at nearly 100%. The man is well travelled and has much to tell.
For a chemistry student in East Germany in the mid-1980s, ETH Zurich was a veritable temple for Günther: a university with such tradition and renown in the world of chemistry that it was simply out of reach. Yet Günther would find himself in Zurich much sooner than he could have imagined, albeit via a detour to Newfoundland. As a post-doc in 1994, he spent a year at Memorial University in St. Johns, a “gorgeous, cold and very remote place”, as he recalls it. In other words, it was the perfect place to focus on his work. In Newfoundland, he met earth scientist and ETH Zurich professor Christoph Heinrich. Heinrich, who was interested in the formation processes of mineral raw materials in the Earth's interior, invited Günther to come to Zurich to work on a laser-based method of microanalysis.
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David Spichiger, SCS
22.09.2014
Open position: Full Professor in Physical Chemistry
University of Berne
Faculty of Science
Full Professor in Physical Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the University of Bern, Switzerland seeks excellent candidates with an outstanding publication record and an international recognized research program in
Nanoelectrochemistry / Molecular Electronics
The candidates should demonstrate an exceptional potential to develop innovative research programmes and be willing to cooperate within and outside the University of Berne. The candidate is expected to contribute to the undergraduate and graduate teaching curriculum in Physical Chemistry and General Chemistry for students of chemistry, biochemistry and other disciplines within the Faculty of Science.
The University of Berne is an equal opportunity employer and strives to increase the number of women in the faculty. Qualified female researchers are especially encouraged to apply.
The position is to be filled by 1st August 2015 or earlier. The deadline for applications is: 31 August 2014.
Interested candidates should submit their curriculum vitae, a synopsis of their past, current and planned research, a list of publications, indicating the 5 most relevant papers, an outline of their teaching experiences, and the filled-in questionnaire
(to download at http://www.dcb.unibe.ch/content/departement/offene_stellen/index_ger.html) as a single PDF file to: (The Dean’s Office, Faculty of Science, University of Bern)
Informal inquiries can be addressed to
Prof. S. Leutwyler
phone + 41 (0) 31 631 4479,
e-mail:
David Spichiger, SCS
24.06.2014
ACS on Campus at ETH Zurich, July 9-10, 2014
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ETH Zürich
Hönggerberg Chemistry Building (HCI)
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Review and Photos Spring Meeting 2014
More than 230 participants joined the SCS Spring Meeting at University of Fribourg on April 24, 2014. Five invited speakers and the two Werner Prize winners 2014, Prof. Clémence Comrminboeuf and Prof. Jérôme Waser, presented their talks on the topic «Frontiers in Organic Chemistry».
In the name of the SCS I like to thank again the invited speakers, Prof. F. Dean Toste, Prof. Matthew Gaunt, Prof. Andreas Pfaltz, Prof. Erik J. Sorensen, Prof. Tobias Ritter and the two Werner Prize winners Prof. Clémence Comrminboeuf and Prof. Jérôme Waser as well as the oganizers, Prof. Christian Bochet and his team for thier contributions and excellent work. It was a great pleasure for all of us, from participants to speakers to exhibitors.
SCNAT, KGF (BASF, Novartis, Roche, Syngenta), Waters, Advion, Biazzi, Bruker, BüchiGlasUster, Grubatec, IGZ Instruments, Merck Millipore, MDPI, Sigma-Aldrich, Thermo Scientific and Thieme Verlag.
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David Spichiger, SCS
25.04.2014
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