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Erick Carreira elected member of the Leopoldina
Among the newly elected members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina is Erick Carreira, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the LOC. The Leopoldina is the oldest continuously existing academy of sciences in the world. Its mission is to provide science-based advice to policymakers and the public and to represent German science in international bodies in which mainly national academies are active.
Event series: From Lab to Production
The Swiss Chemical Society is launching an event series starting on May 13, 2022. The events – which take place once or twice a year at swiss universities – enable students and PhDs to get an insight into process chemistry. They offer a good chance to learn more about the challenges in process chemistry, the differences between laboratory work and chemical production, and to get in touch with process chemists from industry in order to expand its own network.
Project Videos Spark Award 2022
Daniel Richter, Edgars Lakis and Jörn Piel from the D-BIOL received this year's Spark Award for their project "Method for site-selective protein functionalization". Among the top 5 finalists, however, were also teams from D-CHAB, D-MAVT, D-MATL and D-INFK. Watch all project videos here.
Luigi M. Venanzi Lecture Award 2020
In 2020, Prof. Douglas W. Stephan, University of Toronto, received the L. M. Venanzi Distinguished Lectureship Award of the LAC for extraordinary contributions to the field of main group chemistry and in particular for his pioneering work on Frustrated Lewis Pairs. He will deliver his two lectures in Frustrated Lewis Pairs on May 10, 2022, 17:15 and May 11, 2022, 13:00. Luigi M. Venanzi (1927–2000) was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich from 1973 to 1994.
Gisbert Schneider receives Gmelin-Beilstein Award
The German Chemical Society (GDCh) awards Gisbert Schneider, Professor of Computational Drug Design at the IPW, the Gmelin-Beilstein commemorative coin. This award is given to national and international personalities who have made special contributions to the history of chemistry, chemical literature or chemistry information. The award will be presented on May 5, 2022, at the annual meeting of the GDCh Division "Computers in Chemistry" in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.