Chemistry Travel Award 2024

Congratulations to the winners of the Chemistry Travel Award 2024

The "Chemistry Travel Award" honors excellent doctoral students in the field of chemistry and supports their participation in an international conference. It is sponsored by the Chemistry Platform of SCNAT and the Swiss Chemical Society.

The winners of 2024 are:

Petru Albertini, EPFL
Advisor: Raffaella Buonsanti
Conference: GRC Catalysis
Contribution: Hybrid oxide coatings generate stable Cu catalysts for CO2 electroreduction

Willi Marco Amberg, ETHZ
Advisor: Erick Moran Carreira
Conference: ISHC 2024
Contribution: Photo- and cobalt-catalyzed synthesis of heterocycles via cycloisomerization of unactivated olefins

Maryam Asadikorayem, ETHZ
Advisor: Marcy Zenobi-Wong
Conference: TERMIS World Congress
Contribution: Cartilage-penetrating and lubricating zwitterionic sealant for early-stage osteoarthritis treatment

Julian Baumgärtner, ETHZ
Advisor: Maksym Kovalenko
Conference: PRiME 2024
Contribution: Unlocking stable cycling performance in iron fluoride cathodes with pyrochlore structure

Jean Behaghel de Bueren, EPFL
Advisor: Jeremy Luterbacher
Conference: GRC Lignin
Contribution: Valorization of oxygenated lignin monomers obtained via aldehyde-assisted fractionation into high value applications

Luc Bondaz, EPFL
Advisor: Kumar Varoon Agrawal
Conference: AICHE Annual Meeting
Contribution: A multi-disciplinary approach for incorporating gated angstrom-scale pores into single layer graphene for gas separation: from atomic simulation to large-scale membranes

Etienne Bonvin, UniBe
Advisor: Jean-Louis Reymond
Conference: ICAP 2024
Contribution: Peptoid macrocycles inspired from polymyxin B2

Claire Bourmaud, EPFL
Advisor: Jeremy Luterbacher
Conference: GRC Lignin
Contribution: Exploring structure-reactivity relationships in lignin depolymerization through integrated coupled graph modeling and kinetic monte carlo simulation

Héloïse Bürgisser, UZH
Advisor: Nina Hartrampf
Conference: CPS 2024
Contribution: Chemical synthesis of MYC’s transactivation domain enabled by a synthesis tag

Nicola Carrara, EPFL
Advisor: Harm-Anton Klok
Conference: GRC Impactful Nano-Applications for Sustainable Food Production
Contribution: Stimuli-responsive nanofertilizer for a sustainable agriculture

Diana Cavalli, EPFL
Advisor: Jérôme Waser
Conference: GRC Organic Reactions and Processes
Contribution: Ethynylbenziodoxolones and cesium oxalates under blue light: from deoxyalkynylation to lactonization

Dongping Chen, UniBas
Advisor: Thomas Ward
Conference: GRC Biocatalysis
Contribution: A dual anchoring strategy for the directed evolution of improved artificial transfer hydrogenases based on carbonic anhydrase

Millicent Dockerill, UniGe
Advisor: Nicolas Winssinger
Conference: EPS 2024
Contribution: Development of supramolecular anticoagulants with on-demand reversibility

Maxime Hedou, EPFL/HEIA-FR
Advisor: Jeremy Luterbacher
Conference: IUPAC Macro 2024
Contribution: Designing inherently degradable epoxy resins around a carbohydrate core

Isabelle Holzer, UniBe
Advisor: Natalie Banerji
Conference: GRC Electronic Processes in Organic Materials
Contribution: Enhancement of charge transport properties using in-plane oriented organic semiconductors

Xueqian Hu, UniFr
Advisor: Christoph Weder
Conference: SCINT 2024
Contribution: Sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation in nanostructured polymeric scintillators allows for pulse shape discrimination

Krittapas Jantarug, UZH
Advisor: Pablo Rivera Fuentes
Conference: GRC Biooraganic Chemistry
Contribution: A far-red fluorescent probe to visualize gram-positive bacteria in patient samples

Daniel Kaech, ETHZ
Advisor: Máté Bezdek
Conference: ISNA 2024
Contribution: Bipolar redox chemistry of functionalized terthiophenes

Kevin Kleemann, ETHZ
Advisor: Michael Sander
Conference: ACS Spring 2025
Contribution: Water-soluble and water-dispersible polymers in commercial agricultural formulations: inventory of used polymers and perspective on their fate in soils

Bastiaan Kooij, EPFL
Advisor: Kay Severin
Conference: ICCC 2024
Contribution: Reactivity of diazoolefins

Henry Lindner, ETHZ
Advisor: Erick Carreira
Conference: PHOTOIUPAC 2024
Contribution: Photochemical iron-mediated anti-markovnikov hydroazidation of unactivated olefins

Xingyu Liu, EPFL
Advisor: Jérôme Waser
Conference: CPS 2024
Contribution: Peptide hypervalent iodine conjugates: enabling peptide functionalization and macrocyclization

Tin Nguyen, EPFL
Advisor: Jérôme Waser
Conference: GRC Organic Reactions and Processes
Contribution: Photocatalysed homolysis of bond in carbonyl cyclopropanes. From mechanistic study to synthetic application

Sven Papidocha, ETHZ
Advisor: Erick Carreira
Conference: ACS Fall 2024
Contribution: Enantiospecific construction of vicinal quaternary centers via ruthenium-catalyzed coupling of lithium ester enolates

Subrata Patra, UniBe
Advisor: Dmitry Katayev
Conference: GRC Organic Reactions and Processes
Contribution: Iron-mediated electron-catalyzed nitration of unsaturated hydrocarbons in solution and solid-state

Maria Reichenbach, UZH
Advisor: Roland Sigel
Conference: RNA 2024
Contribution: Elucidation of the switching ability of the moaA riboswitch with sulfido Mo-MPT by comparing in-line probing and SHAPE methodologies

Daniel Richter, ETHZ
Advisor: Jörn Piel
Conference: RiPPs 2024
Contribution: Interaction-guided discovery of ribosomally synthesized natural products through structure predictions

Verena Rukes, EPFL
Advisor: Chan Cao
Conference: From Solid State to Biophysics XI
Contribution: Label free identification of full-length proteins and protein modifications using a nanopore

Kevin Schiefelbein, UZH
Advisor: Nina Hartrampf
Conference: EPS 2024
Contribution: Exploring the chemical space of lasso peptides using enzymatic transformation of chemically synthesized precursors

Hendrik Schmitt, ETHZ
Advisor: Bill Morandi
Conference: BOSS XVIII
Contribution: Regiodivergent ring expansion of oxindoles to quinolinones

Vladyslav Smyrnov, EPFL
Advisor: Jérôme Waser
Conference: GRC Organic Reactions and Processes
Contribution: Photacatalytic decarboxylative functionalization of cyclopropenes via cyclopropenium cation intermediates

Annina Stuber, ETHZ
Advisor: Nako Nakatsuka
Conference: GRC Bioanalytical Sensors
Contribution: Aptamer-based small-molecule detection on lateral flow platforms

Ivan Surin, ETHZ
Advisor: Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Conference: ICC 2024
Contribution: Lattice-stabilized single chromium atoms on ceria for nitrous oxide synthesis via ammonia oxidation

Sarah Teworte, UniBe
Advisor: Paola Luciani
Conference: CRS 2024
Contribution: Vaginal administration of mucoadhesive 3D printed ovules for endometriosis treatment: drug repurposing and biorelevant assay development

Georg Tiebel, ETHZ
Advisor: Patrick Steinegger
Conference: NRC 10
Contribution: Evaluation of the ion funnel-to-IVAC system for the rapid chemical characterization of superheavy elements

Kateryna Tolmachova, ETHZ
Advisor: Jeffrey W. Bode
Conference: CPS 2024
Contribution: Installation of electrophiles onto the C-terminus of recombinant ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins

Ajmal Roshan Unniram Parambil, UniBas
Advisor: Jonathan De Roo
Conference: ICCC 2024
Contribution: Atomically precise surface chemistry of zirconium and hafnium metal oxo clusters beyond carboxylate ligands

Meenu Upadhyay, UniBas
Advisor: Markus Meuwly
Conference: SCAPAPS 2024
Contribution: Atmospheric decomposition reactions and molecule formation on amorphous solid water

Luca Vedani, UniBe
Advisor: Eva Hevia
Conference: ICCC 2024
Contribution: Exploiting coordination effects in nickelate complexes for cross-coupling challenging electrophiles

Johannes von Szczepanski, ETHZ
Advisor: Dorina Opris
Conference: IUPAC Macro 2024
Contribution: High-permittivity silicone elastomers for soft actuators and stretchable electronics

Hyun Suk Wang, ETHZ
Advisor: Athina Anastasaki
Conference: IUPAC Macro 2024
Contribution: Controlled depolymerization of RAFT polymethacrylates

Joël Wellauer, UniBas
Advisor: Oliver Wenger
Conference: PHOTOIUPAC 2024
Contribution: Iron(III) carbene complexes show long-lived LMCT luminescence due to a reservoir effect

Jennifer Wilson, ETHZ
Advisor: Patrick Steinegger
Conference: NRC 10
Contribution: Online and offline gas-phase adsorption chromatography with Tl for future Nh experiments

Lito Zambounis, ETHZ
Advisor: Cornelia Halin
Conference: GRC Chemotactic Cytokines
Contribution: Imaging dendritic cell migration into lymphatics in human skin