On the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting 2024, Helvetica, represented by its editors in chief, Prof. Eva Hevia and Prof. Jérôme Waser, as well als Helvetica Executive Editor Dr. Richard Smith, will award the Helvetica Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society for the best published papers of PhD/Postdocs 2023/24 in Helvetica Chimica Acta. The prize is endowed with CHF 1'000 for the winner and CHF 500 for the runner-up.
Dr. Richard Smith, Executive Editor of Helvetica, will hand over the certificates to the winners on September 5, 2024, at 17.45h in the afternoon plenary session. The winners will present their research in a flash talk of 3min each.
1st Price 2024: Timur Ashirov, University of Fribourg, Group of Prof. Ali Coskun
‘Eutectic Molten Salt Synthesis of Highly Microporous Macrocyclic Porous Organic Polymers for CO2 Capture’
2nd Price 2024: Joël F. Keller, University of Basel, Group of Prof. Marcel Mayor
‘Selective Recognition of Aromatic Amino Acids by a Molecular Cleft in Water’
We congratulate the winners and are looking forward to the ceremony on September 5.
We hope this motivates many of our members to hand in their next manuscript to Helvetica, a journal of the SCS.
The SCS Helvetica Prize
Since 2019, Helvetica Chimica Acta awards the 'Helvetica Prize' on the occasion of the Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society to honor outstanding publications of young researchers in Switzerland. The prize is addressed to the best published papers of PhD/Postdocs in Helvetica. The award winners present their work in a short talk at the Fall Meeting. The prize is endowed with CHF 1'000 for the winner and CHF 500 for the runner up.
Past Winners of the Prize
Winners of the prize 2023
Winners of the prize 2022
Winners of the prize 2021
Winners of the prize 2020
Winners of the prize 2019
David Spichiger, SCS
06.08.2024