On the occasion of the SCS Fall Meeting 2026, 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 2025/26 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 August 28, 2026, in Bern.
1st Price 2026: Valeriia Hutskalova, University of Basel, Group of Prof. Christof Sparr
«Synthesis of Biphenanthrene Natural Products by Atroposelective Aromatic Ring-Opening Metathesis»
2nd Price 2026: Charlotte Glaus (-Egger), University of Geneva, Group of Prof. Claude Piguet
«Title of the publication: «Spin-Crossover Modulated Luminescence in Materials and Molecular Complexes»
We congratulate the winners and are looking forward to the ceremony on August 28.
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 2025
Winners of the prize 2024
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
28.08.2026