Scholarship Fund of the Swiss Chemical Industry (SSCI)
The Scholarship Fund of the Swiss Chemical Industry (SSCI) is a joint initiative of ETH Zurich and the two companies Janssen AG and Givaudan Schweiz AG.
The aim of this Scholarship Fund is to support outstanding PhD-students in the field of chemistry and applied biosciences during their doctoral studies and thus reverse the current deficit of qualified chemists in industry. As well, the Fund will cultivate an early and regular exchange between the students, the involved companies and ETH Zurich in the chemical sciences.
Givaudan (Switzerland) AG
Givaudan. Our name is an invitation to engage your senses. As the world’s lead-ing Flavours and Fragrance company, we unveil the tastes and scents that touch peo-ple’s emotions, from prestige perfumes to laundry care, from your favourite drink to your daily meal. Our flavours and fragrances serve our customers in the food, bever-age, consumer goods and fine fragrance industries to create brands that delight con-sumers.
Givaudan is proud to participate in the SSCI. The proximity of Givaudan's main Fra-grance Research centre in Duebendorf to the ETHZ combined with this relationship enables Givaudan to build an even stronger, high quality scientific network to inspire and support it's Research and Technology programmes. It also offers the opportunity to raise awareness of careers in the fragrance industry to attract the top scientific tal-ents to the organisation.
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is leading where medicine is going. Patients inform and inspire our science-based innovations, which continue to change and save lives. With rigorous science and compassion, we confidently address the most complex diseases of our time and unlock the medicines of tomorrow. Therapeutic areas include: Oncology, Immunology, Neuroscience, Cardiopulmonary and Specialty ophthalmology.
Johnson & Johnson was founded over 135 years ago. Since then, we have been developing new ideas and products that have transformed human health and well-being. Every invention, every product and every breakthrough has been powered by generations of employees who are inspired to make a difference. Their motivation is simply to improve peoples’ lives: The patients are waiting!
Being part of SSCI offers us a unique opportunity to actively collaborate with the highest-ranking and best-known University in Switzerland. The connection to students and professors allows us to perform targeted recruiting of outstanding talent, scouting of new technology, and general networking. By staying in touch with the SSCI awardees we get to know them better and provide them with an insight into the daily life in industry. Finally, SSCI offers an excellent platform to present Johnson & Johnson to a wider audience.
Who can apply?
All PhD-students of the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences (D-CHAB) at ETH Zurich during the first year of graduate school. The scholarship is intended to support awardees from the second through the fourth year.
Every year, a number of students will be selected for a Scholarship Fund of the Swiss Chemical Industry. Apart from having one more award in their CV, the awardees benefit especially from an early and important exchange with the industry.
How to apply?
Students submit a complete nomination package (one single PDF-file), written in English and consisting of :
- Cover letter
- Curriculum vitae with photograph
- Research summary that includes an abstract, suitably detailed research outline (max. 5 pages)
- Listing of Master/Diploma/BSc grades
- Letter of reference from the faculty mentor
- Submission of applications will be accepted between Sept 2024 and Oct 31, 2024
Selection Procedure:
A committee consisting of professors of D-CHAB and a representative of each partner company is responsible for the selection. The nomination packages will be evaluated on account of the candidate's qualifications and the scientific content.
Contact
Professur für Organische Chemie
Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10
8093
Zürich
Switzerland
Awardees 2008-2024
Florian Ruepp
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Bill Morandi
Unlocking a New Generation of Aminative Oxidation Reactions Through Understanding the Reactivity of Iodonitrenes
Steve H Park
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Development of Metal-Catalyzed Stereospecific Reactions Utilized Towards the Convergent Synthesis of Jatropha Diterpenoids
Ian Warm
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Helma Wennemers
The Azomethine Imine-Isonitrile Ligation for Tumor Targeting and Beyond
Sebastian Kölbl
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
A New TiIII-mediated Polyene Cyclization Approach Towards the Convergent Synthesis of Polycyclic Polyprenylated Acylphloroglucinols
Bence Botlik
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Bill Morandi
Advancing Rearrangements for the Formation and Modification of Aromatic Systems
Brenno Masina
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Helma Wennemers
Allysine reactive peptides for targeting fibrosis
Héloïse Colombano
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Synthetic Studies of Secondary Metabolites from the Human Oral Microbiome
Lukas Sprenger
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Synthetic Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of a Diterpenoid Natural Product
Lena Beiersdörfer
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Helma Wennemers
Receptors and Sensors for the Selective Recognition of Saccharides in Water
Dominic Egger
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Bill Morandi
Non-Classical Alkyne Metathesis Mediated by Group 11 Transition Metals with Group 13 X-Type Ligands
Henrik Wilke
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
A Modular Approach Towards the Convergent Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Meroterpenoids
Liam Grunwald
Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry
Group of Prof.Victor Mougel
Biomimetic Iron-Sulfur Clusters: Toward Applications in Small Molecule Activation
Willi Amberg
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Metal-Catalyzed Complex Cascades: 4 Rings-1 Step Towards Marine Diterpenoid Cores
Christian Ehinger
Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Christoph Copéret
Development of a Unified Late Transition-Metal Precursor Family Suitable for SOMC and Bimetallic Catalysts for the Deoxygenation of Biomass-Derived Feedstocks
Moritz Fink
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Photopharmacological Tools for Biomolecule Degradation
Clemens Isert
Insitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Group of Prof. Gisbert Schneider
Electron density-based deep-learning models for the prediction of ligand binding affinity
Miroslav Kosar
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Fluorescent Labeling of Native Cannabinoid Receptor 2
Alena Budinska
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Helma Wennemers
Stereoselective Organocatalytic α-Alkylation of Aldehydes
Lukas Lätsch
Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Christophe Copéret
Probing the Interplay of Isolated and Non-isolated Sites in Zeotype Catalysts by Solid-State NMR and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
David Fischer
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Synthetic Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of a Diterpene Natural Product
Stephanie Linker
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
Group of Prof. Sereina Riniker
Development of simulation methods to analyse and understand rare-event kinetics of biological systems
Julia Reisenbauer
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Bill Morandi
Unactivated Alkane Bond Cyclization and Functionalization mediated by Rhodium-Porphyrin-like Catalysts
Viktoria Gerken
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Generation of Masked C1-Radicals by Carbon Nitride Photoredox Catalysis
Jérôme Kaeslin
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Renato Zenobi
Rapid and Quantitative Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Pharmaceutical and Clinical Applications
Anne Schuhmacher
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Towards sustainable solid-phase peptide synthesis with a new amide-forming process
Giovanni Luca Bartolomeo
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Renato Zenobi
Nanoscale Characterization of Biological Samples with Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Felix Pultar
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Synthetic Studies of Structurally Intriguing Metabolites from the Human Microbiome
Patrick Pfaff
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Reversible Spatiotemporal Control of Induced Protein Degradation by photoPROTACs
Antonia Schantl
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Group of Prof. Jean-Christophe Leroux
Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors for the Treatment of Vascular Calcification
Roman Sarott
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Photoswitchable Cannabinoids for the Study of CB1/CB2 Signaling
Moritz Hönig
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Synthetic Studies on structurally and biologically intriguing diterpenoids
Christopher Gordon
Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Christophe Copéret
Structure-Activity Relationships from NMR Chemical Shift Analysis for Hydrocarbon Homologation and Functionalization Processes
Helene Wolleb
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Synthetic Studies and Investigation of Biosynthetic Pathways of Dendrowardol C
Raphael Hofmann
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Jeffrey Bode
Site-specific modification of native proteins
Laura Piveteau
Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Maksym Kovalenko
Molecular Understanding and Control of Nanocrystal Surfaces
Marco Brandstätter
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Group of Prof. Erick M. Carreira
Towards the Total Synthesis of Marine Antibiotics
Murielle Delley
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Activation of C-H Bonds on Tailor-Made Supported M,O Sites
Alberto Kravina
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of a Polyketide Natural Product with an Unusual Carbon Skeleton via Cycloaddition Strategy
Simon Matoori
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Polymeric Microparticle-Based Gastrointestinal Dialysis to Treat Hyperammonemia: Synthesis, Coating, Proof of Concept
Reinhard Zschoche
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Enhancing Pathway Flux by Sequestration of Enzymes in a Protein Container
Simon Breitler
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Synthesis of 3,4-seco-Atisane Diterpenoids: Naturally Occurring Anti-Cancer Agents
Christian Ebner
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Towards the Total Synthesis of Diterpenoid Natural Products: Development of Novel Methods to Access Complex Structural Motifs
Christiane Siebler
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
From Functionalizable Collagen Model Peptides to Collagen based Materials
Stefan Diethelm
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Total Synthesis of Alkaloid Natural Products Employing Novel Strategies for CN-Bond Formation
Hajo Kries
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Reprogramming Nonribosomal Peptide Synthesis
Simon Karl Küster
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Development of a DropletBased Microfluidic Platform for Single Cell Analysis
Boris Tchitchanov
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Synthesis and Anion Binding Properties of Macrocyclic Push-Pull Chromophoric Architectures
Nicolas Armanino
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydroesterification Reactions of Olefins
Lorine Brülisauer
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
pH-Sensitive Immunoliposomes as a Means to Modify the Reducing Capacity of Endosomes
Markus Roggen
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Direct Iridium(P,alkene) Catalyzed Allylic Substitution of Branched Free Allylic Alcohols
Yi-Lin Wu
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Electronically Active Acetylenes: Properties, Synthetic Utilities and Materials Application
Pablo Rivera Fuentes
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Three-dimensional Acetylenic Scaffolding Using Enantiopure 1,3-Diethynylallenes
Vincent Diederich
Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering
Design of polymer hydrogels with a gradient in mechanical properties, used as support material for the cultivation and the differentiation of stem cells
Lars Giger
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Design and Evolution of Enzymes with Novel Aldolase Activities
Christoph Bucher
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
ß-Fluoro Amines: Applications in Catalysis and Medicinal Chemistry
Fabian Buller
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
DNA-encoded chemical libraries
Raffael Koller
Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry
Electrophilic trifluoromethylation using hypervalent iodine compounds
Bill Morandi
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Alternatives to Noble Metal Catalysts: Discovery and Development of Iron Catalysts for Chemical Synthesis
Manuel Müller
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry
Design and Evaluation of Catalytic Foldamers