The European Young Chemists’ Award 2020 is intended to showcase and recognise the excellent research being carried out by young scientists working in the chemical sciences. Usually, the final evaluation of nominations takes place at the European Chemistry Congress (ECC). However this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of the 8^th European Chemistry Congress (ECC8) to 2022, the event took place online.

The 12 finalists presented their own research results in front of the European Award Committee for the EuChemS Award (EYCAC) and the whole audience during the EYCA Competition Session at the e-YCN@ECC. The event was organised by the European Young Chemists’ Network (EYCN) and was held online on 26 August 2020.

At the Early Career Research Level, the EYCA 2020 Gold Medal was awarded to Maria Chiara Sportelli (National Research Council/Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies – CNR-IFN, Italy) and the Silver Medal to Grégory Chatel (University of Savoie Mont Blanc, France). At the PhD Level, the Gold Medal was awarded to Eoin Murray (T.E. Laboratories, Ireland) and the Silver Medal to Emilia Paone (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy).

EYCA 2020 has been sponsored by the European Chemical Society (EuChemS), the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and the Federazione Nazionale degli Ordini dei Chimici e dei Fisici in Italy (FNCF).

More information about the European Young Chemists’ Award (EYCA) is available HERE.