SCS Lectureship Awards

Prof. Darren Dixon, Oxford University (UK)
«New Broad Scope Strategies for Amine and Complex Natural Products Synthesis»
Tour dates: tbd
Tour Organizer: Prof. O. Baudoin, University of Basel

Prof. Edward I. Solomon, Stanford University (USA)
«Activating Metal Sites for Biological Electron Transfer »
«Geometric and Electronic Structural Contributions to Fe/O₂Reactivity: Correlations between metalloenzyme and heterogeneous catalysis»
Tour dates: tbd
Tour organizer: Prof. C. Copéret, ETH Zürich

Prof. David Nesbitt, JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder
«Kinetics and dynamics of elementary chemical/biophysical processes»
Tour dates: tbd
Tour organizer: Prof. S. Willitsch, University of Basel

Prof. Jennifer Field, Oregon State University (USA)
«Quantitative analytical methods for organic micropollutants and their transformation products in natural and engineered systems»
Tour dates: tbd
Tour organisier: Prof. W. Giger, Eawag

Prof. Abby Doyle, Princeton University (USA)
«Organic synthesis, organometallic catalysis, and physical organic chemistry»
Tour dates: tbd
Tour organisier: Dr. Andreas Marzinzik, Novartis

Prof. Andrei Yudin, University of Toronto (CAN)
«The dark side of conformational analysis»
Tour dates: February 17-21, 2020
Tour organizer: Prof. Ch. Sparr, University of Basel
Tour program, Prof. Andrei Yudin 

All other Lectureship tours that were planned from March to December 2020 had to be cancelled and/or rescheduled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic:

• Prof. Darren Dixon, Oxford University (UK)
• Prof. Edward I. Solomon, Stanford University (USA)
• Prof. David Nesbitt, JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder
• Prof. Jennifer Field, Oregon State University (USA)
• Prof. Abby Doyle, Princeton University (USA)
  

The following Lectureship tours are approved for 2019:

Prof. Scott J. Miller, Yale University, USA«Searching for Selective Catalytic Reactions in Complex Molecular Environments»
Tour date: 26.02.-05.03.2018Tour organizier:
Prof. Christof Sparr, University of Basel
Program overview, Prof. Scott J. Miller

Prof. Masayuki Inuoe, The University of Tokyo, Japan 
«Radical-Based Approach for Synthesis of Complex Natural Products»
Tour date: 7.-15.05.2018
Tour organizier: Prof. Jieping Zhu, EPF Lausanne
Program overview, Prof. Masayuki Inoue

Prof. Frank Neese, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, GER «Ab-initio Ligand Field Theory and Magnetism of d- and f-Elements»«Insight into the Water Oxidizing Cluster in Photosystem II»
«Insight into CO₂-Activation»
«Reactivity of High-Valent Non-Heme Iron Centers»
Tour date: 14.-18.05.2018
Tour organizer: Prof. Thomas Bally, University of Fribourg
Program overview, Prof. Frank Neese

Dr. Eng. Zhaomin Hou, Riken Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan«Search for new catalysts for efficient and selective chemical transformations»
Tour date: 28.05.-04.06.2018
Tour organizier: Prof. E. Peter Kündig, University of Geneva
Program overview, Dr. Zhaomin Hou

Prof. Craig Crews, Yale University, USA
«PROTAC-mediated Protein Degradation: The chemical equivalent of siRNA»
Tour date: 18.06.-22.06.2018
Tour organizier: Prof. Dennis Gillingham, University of Basel
Program overview, Prof. Craig Crews

Prof. Scott Snyder, University of Chicago
«Strategies and tactics for the rapid synthesis of molecular complexity»
Tour date: 10.-17.09.2018
Tour organizier: Prof. Christian Bochet, University of Fribourg
Program overview, Prof. Scott Snyder

Prof. John R. Yates, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
«Understanding the molecular defect in cystic fibrosis using mass spectrometry and proteomics»
Tour date: 17.-24.10.2018
Tour organizier: Prof. Renato Zenobi, ETH Zurich
Program overview, Prof. John R. Yates

Prof. Masahiro Murakami, Kyoto University, Japan
«Life-Long Focus on Four-Membered Rings»
Tour date: 28.10.-02.11.2018
Tour organizier: Prof. Jérôme Lacour, University of Geneva
Program overview, Prof. Masahiro Murakami

Prof. Jeremy Sanders, University of Cambridge, UK
«Thermodynamics and Molecular Recognition: From Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry to Crystal Polymorphism»
Tour date: 13.-17. March 2017
Tour organizer: Prof. Katharina Fromm, University of Fribourg
Program overview, Prof. Jeremy Sanders

Prof. Jonathan Sweedler, University of Illinois, USA
«Life on the “D” side: D-amino acid signaling in the brain» and
«The chemical characterization of the brain: from new measurement tools to new neurochemical insights»
Tour date: 20.-24. March 2017
Tour organizer: Prof. Renato Zenobi, ETH Zurich
Program overview, Prof. Jonathan Sweedler

Dr. Xiaoguang Lei, Beijing
«Complex Natural Product as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Synthesis and Chemical Biology» and
«Tightly Linking Chemistry and Biology through Covalent Bonds»
Tour date: 27.-31. March 2017
Tour organizer: Prof. Nicolas Winssinger, University of Geneva
Program overview, Prof. Xiaoguang Lei

Associate Prof. Ryan Shenvi, The Scripps Research Institute, USA 
«Chemical Synthesis of Secondary Metabolites»
Tour date: 08.-12. May 2017
Tour organizer: Karl Gademann, University of Zurich
Program overview, Prof. Ryan Shenvi

Prof. Jonathan Ellmann, Yale University, USA
«C-H Functionalization for the Efficient Assembly and Elaboration of Heterocyclic Compounds»
Tour date: 15.-19. May 2017
Tour organizer: Dr. Andreas Marzinzik, Novartis
Program overview, Prof. Jonathan Ellmann

Prof. Cathy Crudden, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
«Metal catalysts, clusters and surfaces: From the synthesis of chiral bio-molecules to carbon-based self assembled monolayers»
Tour date: 02-09. October 2017
Tour organizier: Jeffrey Bode, ETH Zurich
Program overview, Prof. Cathy Crudden

Prof. Cynthia Burrows, The University of Utah, USA
«The Epigenetics of Guanine:  From chemistry to biology with guanine oxidation»
Tour date: 16.-20. October 2017
Tour organizer: Prof. Thomas Bally, University of Fribourg
Program overview, Prof. Cynthia Burrows

Prof. Frank Neese, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, GER
«Reactivity of high-valent nonheme iron centers»
«Insight into the water oxidizing cluster in Photosystem II»
«Insight into CO₂ activation»
«Insight into the water oxidizing cluster in Photosystem II»
«Ab initio ligand field theory and magnetism of d- and f-elements»
Tour date: 13.-17. November 2017 
The tour is cancelled and an alternative date in 2018 will be defined.
Tour organizer: Prof. Thomas Bally, University of Fribourg
Program overview, Prof. Frank Neese

Prof. Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge, UK
«Molecular semiconductors for LEDs and solar cells: designing around the Coulomb interaction»
«New semiconductors and new architectures for LEDs and solar cells»
Tour date: 20.-24. November 2017
Tour organizer: Prof. Majed Chergui, EPF Lausanne
Program overview, Prof. Sir Richard Friend

Prof. Shiki Yagai, Chiba University, Japan
«Figuration of Supramolecular Polymers with Spontaneous Curvature»
Tour date: 11.-15. December 2017
Tour organizier: Prof. Bruno Therrien, University of Neuchatel
Program overview, Prof. Shiki Yagai

Prof. F. Fleming Crim, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
«The Influence of Vibrations on Reactions in Gases and Liquids»
Tour date: 21. September - 21. November 2017
Tour organizier: Prof. Martin Quack, ETH Zurich
Program overview, Prof. F. Fleming Crim

Prof. Gregory Scholes, Princeton University (US)
«Coherent Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting»
Host: Natalie Banerji, University of Fribourg
Tour date: 14. - 18. March 2016
Program overview, Prof. Gregory Scholes

Prof. Michinori Suginome, Kyoto University (JP)
«New Catalytic and Chiroptical Functions of Chirality-Switchable Helical Macromolecules»
Host: Clément Mazet, University of Geneva 
Tour date: 09. - 16. May 2016
Program overview, Prof. Michinori Suginome

Prof. Michael Gottfried, Philipps-Universität Marburg (DE)
«Organometallic and coordination chemistry on surfaces»
Host: Karl-Heinz Ernst von der EMPA
Tour date: 06. - 10. June 2016
Program overview, Prof. Michael Gottfried

Prof. Justin du Bois, Stanford University, California (US)
«The Molecular Mystique of Nature’s Poisons», «Chemical Approaches to the Study of Ion Channels»
Host: Olivier Baudoin, University of Basel
Tour date: 14. - 21. June 2016
Program overview, Prof. Justin Du Bois

Prof. Jeffrey Johntson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN (US)
«New Catalysts, Methods, and Strategies that Enable Therapeutic Development and On-Demand Natural Product Total Synthesis»
Host: Jérôme Lacour, University of Geneva
Tour date: 05. - 09. September 2016
Program overview, Prof. Jeffrey N. Johnston

Prof. Richard N. Zare, Stanford University, California (US)
«Microdroplet Chemistry»
Host: Stefan Willitsch, University of Basel
Tour date: 12. - 16. September 2016
Program overview, Prof. Richard N. Zare

Prof. Keisuke Suzuki, Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)
«Lessons from Complex Natural Product Synthesis: Polyphenol Monomers, Oligomers and Hybrids»
Host: Clément Mazet, University of Geneva
Tour date: 03. - 11. October 2016
Program overview, Prof. Keisuke Suzuki

Prof. Eric V. Anslyn, University of Texas, Austin (US)
«Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry»
Host: Thomas Bally, University of Fribourgl
Tour date: 10. - 14. Oktober 2016
Program overview, Prof. Eric Anslyn

Prof. Eric T. Kool, Stanford University (US)
Lecture Title: «Designer DNA Bases: Probing Molecules and Mechanisms in Biology»
Host: Prof.  Nicolas Winssinger, University of Geneva
Program overview, Prof. Eric T. Kool
Abstract, Prof. Eric T. Kool

Prof. Graham Cooks, Purdue University (US)
Lecture Title: «Mass Spectrometry for Medical Diagnostics, Organic Synthesis and Materials Fabrication»
Host: Prof. Christophe Copéret, ETH Zurich
Program overview, Prof. Graham Cooks

Prof. Guy Bertrand, University of Califormina (US)
Lecture Title: «Stable carbenes and related species: Powerful tools in organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry»
Host: Prof. Hansjörg Grützmacher, ETH Zurich
Program overview, Prof. Guy Bertrand

Prof. Kenichiro Itami, Nagoya University (JP)
Lecture Title: «C-H Activation Catalysis for Carbon Materials and Plant/Animal Biology»
Host: Prof. Georg Süss-Fink, University of Neuchâtel
Program overview, Prof. Kenichiro Itami

Prof. Tristan Lambert, Columbia University
Lecture title: «Advances in Catalysis via the Exploration of Novel Ionic Structures»
Host: Prof. Jérome Waser, EPF Lausanne
Program overview, Prof. Tristan Lambert

Prof. Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University (US)
Lecture title: «Photoinitiated Charge Transport in Self-assembled Organic Nanostructures» and
«Integrated Molecular Systems for Artificial Photosynthesis»
Host: Prof. Oliver S. Wenger, University of Basel
Program overview, Prof. Michael R. Wasielewski

Prof. Kazuya Kikuchi, Osaka University (JP)
Lecture title: «Design Strategy of Molecular Imaging Probes which Convert Biological Signals to Chemical Output» 
Host: Prof. Nicolas Winssinger, University of Geneva
Program overview, Prof. Kazuya Kikuchi

Prof. Shunichi Fukuzumi, Osaka University (JP)
Lecture Title: «New Strategies for Artificial Photosynthesis»
Host: Prof.  Oliver Wenger, University of Basel
Program overview, Prof. Shunichi Fukuzumi

Prof. Huw Davies, Emory University (US)
Lecture Title: «Collaborative Approach for C-H Functionalization»
Host: Prof. Nicolai Cramer, EPF Lausanne
Program overview, Prof. Huw Davies

Prof. Peter J. Sadler, University of Warwick (UK)
«Metals in Medicine»
Host: PD Dr. Julien Furrer, University of Bern
Program overview, Prof. Peter J. Sadler

Prof. Peter R. Schreiner, Universität Giessen (Germany)
«Enantioselective Multicatalysis - Retrocatalysis»,
«Nanodiamandoids as Next-Generation Carbon Materials» and
«Tunnelling control of chemical reactions»
Host: Prof. Thomas Bally, University of Fribourg
Program overview, Prof. Peter Schreiner

Prof. Mark MacLachlan, University of British Columbia (Canada)
"Supramolecular Chemistry"
Host:  Alan F. Williams, University of Geneva
Program overview, Prof. Marc MacLachlan

Prof. Prof. Keiji Morokuma, Kyoto University (Japan)
«Exciting World of Theoretical Studies of Chemical Reactions»
Host:  Prof. Markus Meuwly, University of Basel
Program overview, Prof. Keiji Morokuma

Prof. Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol (UK)
«Assembly Line Synthesis»
Host:  Prof. Philippe Renaud, University of Berne
Program overview, Prof. Varinder Aggarwal

Prof. Sukbok Chang, KAIST, Department of Chemistry (KR)
«Development of Direct C-H Amination Reactions Based on Mechanistic Aspects»
Host: Prof. E. Peter Kündig, University of Geneva
Program overview, Prof. Sukbok Chang

Prof. Carl Lineberger, University of Colorado Boulder (USA)
«Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopy: From Radicals to the Reaction Coordinate»
Host: Prof. Thomas Bally, University of Fribourg
Program overview, Prof. Carl Lineberger

Prof. Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University, Montreal (Canada)
«Three-Dimensional DNA Structures for Biological and Materials Applications»
Host:  Prof. Prof. Georg Suess-Fink, University of Neuchâtel
Program overview, Prof. Hanadi Sleiman

Prof. Michael Famulok, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (DE)
«Chemical biology for deciphering cell signaling pathways» and
«Oligonucleotide-based tools for pharmacology and nano-engineering»
Host:  Prof. Wolf-Dietrich Woggon, University of Basel
Program overview, Prof. Michael Famulok

Program Director
University of Basel: Prof. Stefan Willitsch 

1. The board of the DFR appoints a program director who is responsible for the coordination of the program and the correct course of action at the national level (see section H).
2. Each research institution has a delegate on the board of the DFR who serves as the “site coordi¬nator” (see section D)
3. At its meetings in May and October, the DFR board decides which proposals (see section B) shall be realized in the course of the following 12 months. This decision will be communicated by the program coordinator to the prospective organizers of these lecture tours.

1. The proposal has to be posted on a "Tricider" webpage, the link to which the program director provides to the site coordinators at least a month before the deadline for proposals. The site coordinators are responsible for passing this link, and the information on how to use it, on to their colleagues.
2. Proposals must contain (a) the name of the prospective invitee (b) the topic about which the invi¬tee will speak, (c) a link to his/her homepage. If the lecture tour is accepted, the person who launched the proposal will be the organizer of this lecture tour (see section E).
3. Once a proposal is posted, it is open for voting to colleagues who would volunteer to serve as local hosts for the invitee (see section F). The voting ends on the day before the meeting of the board where it will decide which lecture series it wants to support. The more votes a proposal collects from different departments, the more likely it will be funded.
4. Each person who votes for a proposal must sign up with the full name and indicate the institution to which he/she belongs

1. The financial management of the lecture series is assumed by the SCS head office. The DFR board fixes the rules for the reimbursement of travel costs and the sum for the honorarium that is associated with the SCS lectureship (see section I below).
2. The SCS pays for the travel costs to/from and within Switzerland and the honorarium.
3. Each site who hosts a visitor pays the local costs (hotel, meals etc.).

1. The site coordinators (who are members of the DFR board) assure that all their colleagues are informed about the SCS Lectureship program and that they receive the link to the "Tricider" web¬page (see section B) when it is made available for each round of proposals.
2. They are responsible that the members of their institution follow the rules defined in this docu-ment.
3. They assure that there are no diverging opinons within their respective institutions regarding the proposed invitees and/or the dates when they are invited.

1. The organizer is in charge of inviting the lecturer and fix, in agreement with the other local hosts, a week for the visit. Access to a shared calendar, where this week can be reserved, is made available to the organizer by the program director. Weeks are available on a "first come first serve" basis. Only a single SCS lectureship can be organized during each week.
2. Once the week for a visit is fixed, the organizer elaborates, together with the local hosts, a plan for the lecture tour (department, host, day of the week). This plan is communicated to the pro-gram director.
3. A few months before the lecture tour, the program director will contact the organizer and - if necessary - provides him or her with instructions to work out a detailed plan for the lecture tour, which serves as the basis for the announcements provided by the SCS head office (see point G).
4. The organizer must provide the necessary information for the reimbursment of the lecturer (coor-dinates of a bank account of the lecturer) to the program director (see point H), if possible before the lecturer arrives.
5. If possible, the organizer should purchase all train tickets that are needed for the visitor at the SBB/CFF ticket shop and send these tickets as pdf files to the invitee. The organizer will be promptly reimbursed for that expense by the SCS head office.

1. The local host assists the organizer for the local organization of the lecture tour, and he or she is in charge of organizing a detailed program for the visit of the lecturer at his or her institution.
2. The local host makes sure that the official posters provided by the SCS head office are used to advertise the lectures in his department.

1. The SCS head office take cares of the reimbursement of travel expenses and of the payment of the honorarium according to the terms defined in Section I, on the basis of the information it re¬ceives from the program director.
2. The SCS head office prepares poster announcements for the lecture tour and for each individual lecture and it sends the posters directly to the local hosts.

1. The program director sets up and administers the "Tricider" webpage where lectureships can be proposed.
2. He or she informs the proposers about the decision of the DFR board (accepted/ reserve/not ac¬cepted), and provides the prospective organizers with a link to the shared calendar
3. He or she provides support to the organizers and makes sure that the visits are managed accor¬ding to the rules.
4. He or she provides the SCS head office with the necessary information to announce a lecture tour and to reimburse the speaker.
5. The program director decides about the replacement of a lecturer by a reserve candidate.

1. The lecturer must provide credible proof for the costs of his or her trip to and from Switzerland.
2. These trips will be reimbursed up to a maximum of CHF 2'000 for flights from the far East, CHF 1'500 from the US West coast, CHF 1'200 from the Midwest and CHF 1'000 from the US East coast. Flights within Europe will be reimbursed at the economy rate, train trips at the first class coach rate.
3. The honorarium (prize) for the SCS lectureship has been fixed at CHF 1’000.