The Division of Materials Chemistry of the SCS is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 MatChem PhD Student Awards. The program is sponsored by Sika and Vigor and the awardees receive a prize money of CHF 1'000 each. The award ceremony takes place during the MatChem morning parallel session at the SCS Fall Meeting in Zurich on September 4, 2025. After the ceremony both winners will present their projects in a 5min flash presentation.
The board of the MatChem Division as well as the SCS Head Office like to congratulate the two winners:
Dr. Till Schertenleib (group of Wendy Lee Queen, EPFL Lausanne) currently working as Postdoc at the
PhD thesis: „A local structure perspective on metal-organic frameworks“.
Dr. Yuan-Zi Xu (group of Victor Mougel, ETH Zurich) currently working as Postdoc at the ICFO, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
PhD thesis on nitrogen oxides (NOx and nitrate) with a focus on exploring new electrocatalysts for nitrate reduction.
MatChem PhD Student Award
The prizes are given for outstanding PhD thesis' that were performed in the area of materials chemistry within Switzerland between January 2024 and May 2025.
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David Spichiger, SCS
04.08.2025