From 16 - 25 July 2023 more than 900 participants, mentors and volunteers from approximately 90 countries and areas are expected to attend the International Chemistry Olympiad 2023. Besides two chemistry exams the young talents will experience a wide range of cultural activities, Swiss business and lifestyle as well as the picturesque landscape of Switzerland.

More information about IChO 2023 in Zürich: https://www.icho2023.ch/

We are looking forward to your volunteering application!
There is no age limit, the most important is your motivation to make the IChO 2023 a success.

Contributing your time and energy to the IChO will also bring you in touch with dozens of co-minded volunteers and up to 350 brightest minds in Chemistry. It will be rewarded by team building activities for volunteers and a work certificate you can use for your CV.
Your expenses like accommodation, meals, and transport expenses will be covered. Above all, it will be ten days of fun and science feasts organized by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – ETH Zurich and its partners.
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Please register here, if you want to be a part of IChO 2023

If you have any questions, send us an email to

The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) is an annual international competition for talented young students in secondary schools and colleges. The first IChO took place in Prague in 1968. Since 1987, Switzerland has sent delegations to more than 30 IChOs but has never been a host country itself. The time has come in 2023! The Swiss Chemistry Olympiad Association (SwissChO) and ETH Zurich have been awarded the contract to host the event in Switzerland.

David Spichiger, SCS
17.01.2023

We are pleased to invite you to join us in the beautiful city The Hague for IUPAC|CHAINS2023 in August 2023. This conference, which combines the 49th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress and the 11th edition of the Dutch Chemistry Conference CHAINS, will take place from 20 till 25 August.

The theme of the conference is ‘Connecting Chemical Worlds’, and this is exactly what we aim to do. Connecting different disciplines of chemistry and getting academia, industry, junior and senior researchers to share what they love most about this beautiful science and help chemistry in answering the problems of tomorrow.

We hope to present an exciting program with plenary and invited lectures, parallel sessions, poster- and oral presentations. The first six plenary speakers are already announced, and we are excited to receive renowned scientist like Chad Mirkin, Jennifer Thomson and Nicola Spaldin. The full list of plenary speakers can be found at www.iupac2023.org/plenary-speakers.

And we also invite you to join the programme by submitting your idea for an oral presentation or poster now! Submission of abstracts is open now at www.iupac2023.org/abstracts. On the site you can find the form to submit and the submission guidelines.

Important deadlines

More information can be found on www.iupac2023.org.

For the latest updates, you can also follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and/or Instagram.

 

David Spichiger; SCS
16.01.2023

 



The Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) is part and co-owner of Chemistry Europe (CE), a consortium of 16 European scientific societies and the Wiley publishing house that publishes a family of high-quality scholarly chemistry journals, covering a very broad range of disciplines. The SCS is strongly committed to motivate Swiss based researchers to publish their results in the CE journals. As in many other European countries, Wiley has also reached an agreement in Switzerland that authors affiliated with Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL) may publish primary research and review articles as open access in any of Wiley's hybrid journals at no charge to the author.

To publish without having to pay additional Article Publication Charges (APCs), the article's responsible corresponding author must be from an eligible institution and the article must have been accepted on or after 1 May 2021.

You can be confident that by choosing open access your work has the best chance to be read, cited and shared. Read more about the advantages of publishing open access here. Publishing open access:

  • Complies with funder or institution mandates
  • Allows you to retain copyright through a CC BY license
  • Enables automatic deposit in PMC (when appropriate)

To be eligible:

  • Your manuscript must have been accepted on or after 1 May 2021.
  • You must be the responsible corresponding author who is affiliated with an eligible Swiss institution at the point of acceptance.
  • All primary research and review articles qualify.
  • You must order hybrid open access by using our order workflow as described on the website.

Website of Chemistry Europe

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

 

David Spichiger, SCS
12.01.2023

The Platform Chemistry of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) and the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) announce the 2023 Chemistry Travel Award. 

The award includes a contribution of CHF 1'000 towards the cost of an active participation (poster or oral presentation) at an international conference between 15 May 2023 and 14 May 2024 in any field of the chemical sciences. 

Up to 45 doctoral students from Swiss research institutions will be awarded. Selection will be based primarily on scientific accomplishments and on the submitted conference abstract. 

The deadline for applications: 31 March 2023 

All the information about the conditions of participation and the application forms are under chem.scnat.ch/travel_award

 

David Spichiger, SCS / Leo Merz, SCNAT
11.01.2023

 

It’s our pleasure to announce the winners of the 2023 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 15, 2023, where the official award ceremonies will take place. Award lectures will be organized as part of the program of one of our upcoming events.

Werner Prize 2023

Prof. Victor Mougel, ETH Zurich
receives the prize for his research at the interface of molecular, surface, and materials chemistry, encompassing lanthanide/actinide coordination, bioinorganic and materials chemistry as well as electrochemistry and catalysis and especially for the development of high efficiency systems for solar-driven conversion of CO2 to hydrocarbons based on a bioinspired approach.

The prize is endowed with CHF 10’000 and a medal in bronze. The award lecture will take place at the SCS Spring Meeting in Zurich on April 14, 2023.
scg.ch/werner

Sandmeyer Prize 2023

The SCS honors Dr. Agnes Bombrun, Dr. Boris Schilling, Dr. Eric Eichhorn and Dr. Fridtjof Schröder from Givaudan Schweiz AG, and its project tema Ambrofix ((-)-Ambrox)
for their outstanding research contributions that led to the development of an innovative and even more importantly an industrially viable and sustainable process for AmbrofixTM ((-)-ambrox) using green chemistry and biotechnology.

The award is endowed with CHF 20’000.
The award lecture will take place at the 16. Freiburger Symposium on April 28, 2023 and at the SCS Fall Meeting in Bern on August 25, 2023. scg.ch/sandmeyer

Distinguished Industrial Science Award 2023

Dr. Alain De Mesmaeker, Syngenta Crop Protection AG (retired, )
is honored for his exceptional research career in numerous research areas, always focused on scientific excellence, and for his ongoing commitment to human development and mentoring that has shaped and inspired multiple generations of sci-entists and leaders.

The award is endowed with CHF 15’000.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Bern on August 24, 2023.


Senior Industrial Science Award 2023

Dr. Robin Fairhurst, Novartis Pharma AG
receives the prize for his outstanding contributions to the discovery and optimization of several drug development candidates, many of which have reached the clinic and even the market.

The prize is endowed with CHF 10’000.
The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Bern on August 25, 2023.


Industrial Science Award 2023

Dr. Uwe Grether, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
receives the prize for his tremendous impact on medicinal chemistry, focused on the discovery and characterization of small molecules that modulate the activity of the endocannabinoid system for the treatment of various important diseases, and thus for his direct impact on the preclinical and clinical drug discovery portfolio at Roche.

and 

Dr. Tomáš Šmejkal, Syngenta Crop Protection AG
is awarded for his high impact track record in process chemistry and technology that has truly enabled projects and have seen the journey from process research through development and ultimately to commercial scale implementation.

The award is endowed with CHF 7’000 each.
The award lectures will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Bern on August 25, 2023.
scg.ch/scs-industrial-awards

Swiss Green & Sustainable Chemistry Award 2023

Prof. Ali Coskun, University of Fribourg
receives the prize for his outstanding contributions towards the development of sustainable polymers for catalysis, energy and environental applications.
The award is endowed with CHF 10’000 and is sponsord by Syngenta Crop Protection AG.

The award lecture will take place at one of our upcoming events in 2023 and will be announced in due time.
scg.ch/green-and-sustainable-chemistry-award

Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize 2023

Prof. Lea Nienhaus, Florida State University (USA)
is awarded for her nationally and internationally recognized research program in Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors prob-ing the influence from the macroscale to nanoscale.
The prize is endowed with CHF 5’000.

The award lecture will take place at the SCS Fall Meeting in Bern on August 25, 2023.
scg.ch/grammaticakis-neumann

METAS Award 2023

Dr. Michael Stravs, Eawag Dübendorf
receives the prize for your outstanding scientific achievements, especially the new and innovative approach to combine state-of-the-art analysis technologies, artificial intelligence and reference data in near real time that is exemplary for similar problems in chemistry and biology.
The prize is endowed with CHF 5'000 and a certificate.

The award lecture is planned at the CHanalysis in Beatenberg on March 29-31, 2023.
scg.ch/metas-award

Simon-Widmer Award 2023

Prof. Uwe Sauer, ETH Zürich
is awarded for his pioneering work in the field of metabolomics.
The prize is endowed with CHF 5'000 and a trophy.

The award lecture takes place at Euroanalysis 2023 in Geneva, August 27-31, 2023.
scg.ch/simon-widmer


Cancer Drug Discovery Research Award 2023 (supported by RGCC International)

Dr. Elena Zakharova, University of Bern
receives this newly implemented award for your outstanding work in discovering new peptide-based anti-cancer agents that you did during your PhD studies at University of Bern.
The prize is endowed with CHF 5'000 and a certificate.

The award lecture is planned at the DMCCB Basel Symposium in Basel on February 3, 2023.
scg.ch/cancer-award

Balmer Prize 2023

Dr. Stefan Dolder, Gymnasium und FMS Lerbermatt, Köniz b. Bern
wird geehrt für sein grosses Engagement und seine Ideen zur Verbesserung des Unterrichts, insbesondere für das, mangels verfügbarer Software selbst entwickelte Mac-Zeichenprogramm MoleculeSketch zur Darstellung von chemischen Strukturen.
Der Preis ist mit CHF 4’000 und einer Bronze Medaille dotiert.

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen des ChemEdu Events am 24. August 2023 in Bern statt.
scg.ch/balmer

Dr. Max Lüthi Prize 2023

Frau Fabiana Bächli, ZHAW Wädens­wil
wird geehrt für ihre herausragende Bachelorarbeit «Mesoporöse bioaktive Glasnanopartikel für den Wirkstofftransport»

and

 

Ms. Alicia Rodrigues Machado, HEIA Fribourg
receives the prize for her outstanding Bachelor project: «Process design and scale-up studies using single-atom heterogenous catalysts for the synthesis of an API intermediate»

The prize is endowed with CHF 1’000 each and a medal in bronze.
scg.ch/max-luethi

 

 

The call for nominations for the 2024 awards is open until September 30, 2023.
https://scg.ch/awards

 

David Spichiger, SCS
01.12.2022

  1. ILMAC Webinar: Become an Exhibitor
  2. Helvetica published first article on Synthetic Procedure
  3. Review Swiss Chemistry Science Night 2022 - A Celebration of Chemical Research
  4. Three SCS Honorary Memberships awarded for exceptional achievements

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