IUPAC Women in Chemical Sciences Global Breakfast (Basel), Feb 12, 2019

Please join us for the IUPAC event "Empowering Women in Chemistry: A Global Networking Event", one of many events organized in 2019 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of IUPAC and the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. The event is open to all females associated with the field of chemical sciences.

IUPAC Women in Chemical Sciences Global Breakfast (Basel)
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
7:30 AM – 9:30 AM CET

The event takes place in Basel. The exact location depends on the number of registrations

Register on: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iupac-women-in-chemical-sciences-global-breakfast-basel-tickets-55206011667

David Spichiger, SCS
24.01.2019

IUPAC News: Global Women's Breakfast

Women have made enormous contributions to the advancement of chemistry over the last 100 years, but they rarely take time to celebrate these achievements. We encourage groups to organize breakfast networking events and to connect on that day with other groups around the world as a way to strengthen the bonds between women in chemistry.

We invite chemists and students from around the world to come together on February 12, 2019 for a global breakfast celebration entitled, “Empowering Women in Chemistry: A Global Networking Event”.

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE AND CONNECT!

David Spichiger, SCS
04.07.2018

Veronika R. Meyer received the IUPAC 2017 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award

On the occasion of the IUPAC World Chemistry Congress in São Paulo, Brazil, on July 9 to 14, 2017, Natalia Tarasova, IUPAC president, awarded Veronika R. Meyer (left-hand on the photo) this prestigeous award for her outstanding contributions to develop and apply forefront analytical techniques for organic substances and her textbooks for HPLC practitioners that must be considered as standard texts for scientists involved with practical applications of HPLC. 

Following an apprenticeship as laboratory assistant, Veronika R. Meyer studied chemistry at the University of Applied Sciences in Burgdorf, Switzerland. From 1976 to 1998 she studied and worked at University of Bern, where she completed in 1989 her PhD thesis in chemistry. Afterwards she spent postdoctoral stays at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and at the University of Delaware, USA. In 1996 she submitted her habilitation at the University of Bern, where she was teaching various topics of analytical chemistry in particular on High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). From 1998 to 2015 she worked at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research in St. Gallen.

Veronika R. Meyer is author of numerous papers in international journals. Her publications are primarily dealing with various aspects of practical applications of HPLC and with issues of quality assurance and control of analytical methods. However, much more relevant are her textbooks for HPLC practitioners that she authored in English and German language. These single author volumes must be considered as standard texts for scientists involved with practical applications of HPLC.

Since 2002 Veronika Meyer is a member of the board of the Division of Analytical Sciences of the Swiss Chemical Society. Within the analytical sciences community she played an excellent role as an interface between the forefront basic scientists and the more applied researchers, who use analytical methods in their daily activities. In 2006 Dr. Meyer became a member of the Advisory Board of the journal CHIMIA that is published by the Swiss Chemical Society. She started to edit a series of practically oriented papers under the title “Highlights of Analytical Chemistry in Switzerland”. Until the end of 2016 she managed the publication of 116 one-page articles that are considered to be extraordinary valuable for many analytical researchers.

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Awardees of the IUPAC 2017 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering:

• Prof. Misako Aida, Hiroshima University, Japan
• Prof. Lifeng Chi, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
• Prof. M. Concepción Gimeno, Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis (ISQCH), CSIC-University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Dr Jaqueline Kiplinger, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
• Prof. Zafra Lerman, Malta Conferences Foundation, Evanston, IL, United States
• Prof. Thisbe K. Lindhorst, Universität Kiel, Germany
• Prof. Ekaterina Lokteva, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• Prof. Yvonne Mascarenhas, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil
• Dr Veronika Ruth Meyer, Empa St. Gallen (retired), Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland
• Prof. Ingrid Montes-González, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Prof. Frances Separovic, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Prof. Jihong Yu, Jilin University, China

The awards program, initiated as part of the 2011 International Year of Chemistry celebrations, was created to acknowledge and promote the work of women chemists/chemical engineers worldwide. These 12 awardees have been selected based on excellence in basic or applied research, distinguished accomplishments in teaching or education, or demonstrated leadership or managerial excellence in the chemical sciences. The Awards Committee has been particularly interested in nominees with a history of leadership and/or community service during their careers.

David Spichiger, SCS
01.09.2017

Chemistry – A European Journal. Special Issue: Women in Chemistry

Celebrate International Women′s Day on March 8th 2016, Chemistry – A European Journal is publishing a special issue dedicated to women around the world currently working in chemical research.

The cover picture shows the frontispieces of the Concept, Review, and Minireview articles published in this issue, highlighting the broad range of chemistry that is currently being carried out by female researchers.

The entire issue is free to read until end of September, 2016:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.v22.11/issuetoc