Three SCS Honorary Memberships awarded for exceptional achievements

Honorary membership is awarded to individuals who have rendered the Swiss Chemical Society great service and/or who have made an outstanding contribution to science. We are proud to welcome three additional extraordinary members into the circle of SCS honorary members in 2022.

Prof. em. Martin Quack, ETH Zurich,

became an SCS member in 1983 after he joined ETH Zurich as full professor of physical chemistry. His extraordinary achievements in research were honored with several national and international awards, in particular also with the Paracelsus Award in 2002, the most prestigious award of the SCS. Martin represents ETH and Physical Chemistry in the SCS Division of Fundamental Research for many years and, amongst many other tasks, he is/was responsible for the implementation and organization of the Heilbronner-Hückel Lectureships and the participation of the SCS in PCCP.
Mail Martin Quack
Website at ETHZ

Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann, ETH Zurich,

has been professor of Pharmaceutical Biology at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the ETH Zurich since 2003 after he started his career as R&D scientist in industry (Ciba and Novartis). He was awarded with numerous national and international awards that demonstrate his extraordinary, scientific achievements. Karl-Heinz always contributed actively to the SCS and the chemical community throughout his career, e.g., he chaired the SCS Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology for many years and managed prestigious initiatives like the Swiss Course of Medicinal Chemistry in Leysin.
Mail Karl-Heinz Altmann
Website at ETHZ

Dr. Reto Naef, Topadur Pharma AG, Schlieren,

started his career at Sandoz and continued at Novartis were he not only contributed significantly to the companies’ R&D success but also managed internal and external development programs for young talents. As director of the Werner Foundation, board member of the SCS Foundation and manager of the KGF/SISF he catalyzed the interaction between industry and academia and enabled many initiatives with his management skills and funding capabilities. As founder and COE of Topadur, he is now an inspiring example of an entrepreneur for the younger generation.
Mail Reto Naef
Website Topadur

David Spichiger, SCS
18.09.2022

Reminder: Chemistry Europe Award 2023 - Call for nominations

With the Chemistry Europe Award, Chemistry Europe honors every two years scientists who have made outstanding contributions in a field of chemistry for sustainability, energy, materials, and the environment.. The topic of the award will be determined by the Chemistry Europe Council. This new prize will be awarded for the first time in 2023 in the filed of chemistry for sustainability, energy, materials, and the environment.

 

Nomination Process

Nominees for the Chemistry Europe Award should be scientists who have made major contributions to an area of chemistry and significantly advanced our understanding of a particular field.

 

The Chemistry Europe Award will be granted regardless of race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, presence of disabilities, and educational background. The prize may be awarded not only to members of the Chemistry Europe societies but also to non-members and representatives of any nation. Chemistry Europe Representatives are ineligible to receive this award.

 

Nomination Deadline is November 1, 2022.

 

More information: chemistryviews.org

 

 

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Céline Wittwer, SCS
13.09.2022

SCS Fall Meeting 2022: successful event first time on-site after the pandemic

The SCS Fall Meeting 2022, one of the largest annual research conferences in Switzerland, took place at Irchel Campus of the University of Zurich on Thu, September 8, 2022. More than 800 participants attended the event, including many young scientists in education in Switzerland, for whom the fall meeting is a great platform to present their research - often for the first time ever at a major conference. After two years of online events due to the Covid 19 pandemic, we were finally able to hold the event on site. We received more than 450 contributions for a talk or poster presentation in one of the 9 parallel sessions.

SCS Fall Meeting 2022
Irchel Campus, University of Zurich
Thursday, September 8, 2022, 09:00 – 18:30
fm22.scg.ch

Award Lectures of SCS Prize Winners 2022 in the Plenary Sessions

Sandmeyer Award Lecture 2022
Theodoro Laino, IBM Research, Zürich
«Fueling the Digital Chemistry Revolution with Language Models»

Swiss Green & Sustainable Chemistry Award Lecture 2022
Prof. Xile Hu, EPFL Lausanne
«Cooperative molecular, bio-, and electrocatalysis»

SCS Senior Industrial Science Award Lecture 2022
Dr. Bernd Kuhn, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
«Details matter in structure-based drug design»

Paracelsus Award Lecture 2022
Prof. Antonio Togni, ETH Zürich
«For the Sake of Making Molecules»

The Parallel Sessions included 2x 30min invited lecture and 10x 15min short talks from PhD students and Postdocs
The programs incl. the abstracts are still available on the website

• Analytical Sciences
• Catalysis Science & Engineering
• Computational Chemistry
• Chemistry and the Environment
• Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry
• Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology
• Organic Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry
• Polymers, Colloids & Interfaces

Best Oral and Best Poster Presentation Award Program

In collaboration with Metrohm and DSM Nutritional Products, SCS offered again the very attractive and prestigious Fall Meeting Best Presentation Award program. We congratulate all winners again for their fantastic contributions.
Winners of the Best Oral Presentation Awards 2022
Winners of the Best Poster Presentations Awards 2022

Photos of the event

Take a look at the photo galleries and relive the memories of an unforgettable day: https://fm22.scg.ch/photos 

Report on Chemistry Views

Vera Koester, Wiley-VCH GmbH, published a report on the SCS Fall Meeting on ChemistryViews: https://www.chemistryviews.org/exciting-research-in-crowded-lecture-halls/ 
DOI: 10.1002/chemv.202200081

Thanks to organizers ans supporter

We like to take the opportunity to thank again Prof. Roger Alberto and Dr. Hans Peter Lüthi as chairs of the organizing committees, Dr. Ferdinand Wild as local organizer and all supporters from UZH and ETHZ.
Furthermore we like to thank all session sponsors and exhibitors that participated at the event and contributed not only financially but also with exciting lectures or innovative booths.

Céline Wittwer, SCS
12.09.2022

Winners of the Best Poster Presentation Awards at the SCS Fall Meeting 2022

In collaboration with DSM, SCS offered again the very attractive and prestigious Fall Meeting Best Poster Award program. Combined with the Best Oral Presentation Awards program this is probably the most highly remunerated award program in the field, and we are very proud and happy to cooperate with our sponsoring partners. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to DSM Nutritional Products Ltd. for their generous support and congratulate all winners for their fantastic contributions.

Dr. Werner Bonrath, representative of DSM, awarded a total of 23 winners at the end of the SCS Fall Meeting 2022 on September 8, 2022.

Winners of the Best Poster Presentation Awards 2023

Céline Wittwer, SCS
12.09.2022