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Professor Wendelin Stark and Dr. Nevena Paunović were both chemistry Olympians. In 2023, they will return to the Olympiad in new roles: the former as the head of the IChO Scientific Committee and the latter as a startup founder. In this interview, they reveal how the Olympiad has influenced their lives and careers, and what participants can expect from the host country and the competition.

Are you curious to know what happens to former D-CHAB students? John von Neumann started studying chemical engineering in 1923 at the D-CHAB, but only under pressure from his father, who claimed he would never earn a living with mathematics. Later, he became known as the last of the great mathematicians and one of the 20th century’s greatest minds whose work has continued to shape research and entire disciplines.