EYCA 2024

EYCA 2022

EYCA 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of the 8^th European Chemistry Congress (ECC8) from 2020 to 2022, the final evaluation could not take place at the ECC8, aso the EYCA 2020 took place online. EYCA 2020 was 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).

The 12 finalists presented their 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).

The European Young Chemists’ Award 2018 is intended to showcase and recognise the excellent research being carried out by young scientists working in the chemical sciences and was presented at the 7^th EuChemS Chemistry Congress in Liverpool from 26 – 30 August 2018. Under the patronage of EuChemS, the 7^th EuChemS Chemistry Congress and the European Young Chemists’ Network (EYCN), EYCA 2018 has been sponsored by the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and the Federazione Nazionale degli Ordini dei Chimici e dei Fisici in Italy (FNCF).

At the 35 years old level, the EYCA 2018 gold medal went to Alessandro Porchetta (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) and the two silver medals went to Matteo Atzori (University of Florence, Italy), and to Simone Fabiano (Linköping University, Sweden). At the PhD level, the gold medal went to Tim Gatznmeier (Max Plank Institute für Kolenforshung, Germany), and the silver medals went to Lichen Liu (Valencia University, Spain), and to Clément Larquet (Sorbonne University, France). A special mention was given to Erica Del Grosso (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome).

The European Young Chemists’ Award 2016 is intended to showcase and recognise the excellent research being carried out by young scientists working in the chemical sciences and was presented at the 6^th EuChemS Chemistry Congress, which took place in Seville from 11 – 15 September 2016.

The 2016 edition of EYCA award was organised by the Italian Chemical Society (SCI), the Consiglio Nazionale dei Chimici (CNC) and the Spanish National Chemists Association (ANQUE).

At the 35 years old level, the Gold Medal went to Maria Escudero-Escribano, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, and the Silver Medal (ex equo) went to Ruben Dario Costa Riquelme, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlagen-Nuernberg, Germany, and to Daniele Leonori, Manchester University, U.K.

At the PhD level, the Gold Medal went to Giulio Ragazzon, University of Bologna, Italy, and the Silver Medal went to Mercedes Zurro de la Fuente, Regensburg Universitat, Germany.

The 2014 edition of the European Young Chemists’ Award took place in Istanbul at the 5th EuChemS Chemistry Congress, sponsored by the Italian Chemical Society and by the and the Italian Consiglio Nazionale dei Chimici, and under the patronage of EuChemS, the EuChemS Chemistry Congress, and the European Young Chemistry Network (EYCN).

The Jury, L. De Cola, M. Prato and B. M. Trost., selected the following winners:

35-years level
Gold Medal (€1800) – Frederik Wurm (Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Germany)
Silver Medal (ex equo €800) – Gonçalo Bernardes (University of Cambridge, UK)
Silver Medal (ex equo €800) – Tom Hasell (University of Liverpool, UK)

PhD level
Gold Medal (€800) – Zoel Codolà (University of Girona, Spain)
Silver Medal (ex equo €600) – Jonathan O. Bauer (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany)
Silver Medal (ex equo €600) – Anna Maria Rydzik (University of Oxford, UK)

The European Young Chemists’ Award 2012 was assigned during the 4^th EuChemS Chemistry Congress. The EYCA is intended to showcase and recognise the excellent research being carried out by young scientists working in the chemical sciences. The EYCA2012 was once again succesfully managed by Professor Bruno Pignataro and was assigned during the  4^th EuChemS Chemistry Congress that took place in Prague from 26 to 30 August 2012. The Jury (R.H. Grubbs, V. Aquilanti, V. Brabec) selected the following winners:

35-years level
Gold Medal (1800 €): Dr. Elisabetta Collini (Università di Padova, Italy)
Silver Medal (ex-equo – 800 € each): Prof. Yury O. Tsybin (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) and Dr. Jerome Waser (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

PhD level
Gold Medal (800 €): Shan Jiang (University of Liverpool, UK)
Silver Medal (ex-equo – 600 € each): Gabriel Loget (Université de Bordeaux, France) and Olalla Vázquez (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

The EYCA2012 has been founded by Consiglio Nazionale dei Chimici (CNC) and Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and patronaged by EuCheMS, CNC, SCI, the 4^th EuCheMS Congress and the European Young Chemist Network (EYCN).

Sponsored by the Italian Chemical Society The Award winners are: 35-years level
Gold Medal Nicolai Cramer, ETH Zurich, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland
Silver Medal Clemence Corminboeuf, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Silver Medal Claudia Höbartner, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany PhD level
Gold Medal Sophie Carenco, Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris and Laboratoire Hétéroéléments et Coordination, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
Silver Medal Ulrich Hintermair, ITMC of RWTH Aachen, Germany
Silver Medal  Laura Gómez,  Departament de Química, Parc Científic i Tecnològic de la Universitat de Girona, Spain

List of all finalists who gave presentations at the EuChemS Chemistry Congress in August 2010, Nürnberg, Germany.

The Awards were presented by Dave Garner, Chair of the Jury. The medal winners are:

• Gold medal: Fabio Arnesano, University of Bari, Italy, for his work ‘Copper-Triggered Aggregation of Ubiquitin’
• Silver medals: Leonard J. Prins, University of Padova, Italy, for work on ‘Catalyst Discovery using Dynamic Chemistry’, and Ali Tavassoli, University of Southampton, UK, for work on ‘Inhibition of HIV Budding by a Genetically Selected Cyclic Peptide Targeting the TSG101-GAG Interaction’
• Gold medal at PhD level: Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas, University of Sheffield, UK, for work on ‘Porous Material Behaviour in a Non-Porous Material: Gas Uptake of Small Molecules Involving Multiple Structural Changes’
• Silver medals at PhD level: Gustavo Fernández, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,  Spain, for work on ‘Self-Organization of Electroactive Materials: exTTF-Based Linear and Dendritic Supramolecular Architectures’ and Viktoria H. Gessner, Universität Würzburg, Germany, for work on ‘a-Lithiated Methylamines as Powerful Building Blocks: From the Molecular Structure to Asymmetric Synthesis’

The 15 finalists gave presentations to the European Jury comprising Dave Garner, Royal Society of Chemistry, Angela Agostiano, Societa Chimica Italiana, and Christian Remenyi, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker. A total of 90 entries had been received from young scientists aged 22 – 35 from 30 different countries.

The European Young Chemist Award aims to recognise the excellent research being carried out by young scientists working in the chemical sciences. It is sponsored by the Società Chimica Italiana and was organised by the European Young Chemists Network Panel chaired by Bruno Pignataro, Italy. EuChemS European Young Chemists’ Award complete list of finalists.