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

 

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

In depth analyses, research and perspectives for the European Chemistry Community and beyond
 
We're delighted to bring you the third issue of EuChemS Magazine Plus! Take a look at our Headline Stories or Read EuChemS Magazine Plus by clicking here.

Editorial

Strengthening EuChemS. As his term as EuChemS President ends on 31 December 2023, Floris Rutjes summarizes the last three years.

EuChemS News

Policy News

Perspectives

This year, chemists from Europe gathered in Cyprus

Welcoming the young Physical Chemists of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry to EYCN/EuChemS

Interview

President's Column

Awards

Read the full magazine on: https://www.magazine.euchems.eu/

 

David Spichiger, SCS
17.11.2023

We're delighted to invite you to consider submitting your nomination(s) to the open calls for the EuChemS 2023 Awards. 

Lecture Award
Looking for major achievements in chemistry by junior scientists.

Award for Service
Looking for nominees with outstanding commitment to fostering chemistry sciences in Europe, and the goals of EuChemS.

Historical Landmark Award
Looking for sites of important historical developments in chemistry. 

Please note that the deadline is 19 December 2023 18:00 CET.
We encourage you to share this information with your network.
We are looking forward to receiving your nominations.

Kind regards,
Dr. Nineta Hrastelj FRSC
EuChemS Secretary General

David Spichiger, SCS
14.11.2023

The Swiss Chemical Society in collaboration with its partners, SVC and SBA, organized the Ilmac Conference that took place in Basel on September 26-28, 2023, as part of Ilmac 2023. Each day the event focused on a specific topic related to sustainability and provides lectures, contributed talks, discussion forums and networking opportunities for interested community members from chemistry, pharma and biotech.

Ilmac Conference 2023
Day 1, September 26, 2023: Lab Digitalization
Day 2, September 27, 2023: Chemical Technologies
Day 3, September 28, 2023: New Biotech Methods

Swiss Women in Chemistry Networking Event
On Tuesday, September 26, 2023, the SWC invited our female community members to Basel and more than 100 colleagues followed the invitation and joined the career input lectures and the aperitif riche.

Ilmac Startup Corner and Startup Sessions
For the first time, Ilmac offered also an attractive packages for startups and newcomers and provided with the Startup area and the Startup session in the Ilmac Conference two platforms where the young companies could present themselves. 
The best pitches in the Startup Session were honored with the Ilmac Startup Award and the SCS as organizier of the sessions was happy and proud to honor the four winner companies:

Pictures of the SCS Activities at Ilmac
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Photos taken by: Hans Peter Lüthi, David Spichiger, Céline Wittwer, Ilmac Communications Team

  1. Ilmac 2023 in Basel was a resounding success
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