Chemistry Seminar 2025: AI in research and publishing

The SCNAT Chemistry seminar has the aim of initiating discussions about the wide-ranging topic in chemistry. Internationally renowned speakers are invited to a series of panel discussion and workshops at Swiss universities and federal institutes of technology.

This years' topic was on: AI in research and publishing with two excellent presentators:

• Kenneth Atz (Roche Innovation Center Basel) on AI in research an publishing: generative design and synthesis prediction in modern drug discovery

and

• David Peralta (Wiley-VCH/Chemistry Europe) on AI tools for scientific writing and research

The tour took place at the following institutions:

• 15. Jan. CMSZH-retreat/Uni Zürich
• 16. Jan. Uni Fribourg
• 17. Jan. ETHZ
• 20. Jan. EPFL
• 21. Jan. Uni Basel
• 22. Jan. Bernese Chemical Society/Uni Bern