Chemistry Travel Award 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the Chemistry Travel Award 2025
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 2025 are:
Ayush Agarwal, PSI and EPFL
Advisor: Christian Ludwig
Conference: IUPAC 2025
Contribution: Bridging Analytical Methods and Practical Solutions: Accurate Quantification of Siloxanes and Sulfur in Biogas
Ghewa AlSabeh, EPFL and AMI
Advisor: Jovana Milic
Conference: MATSUS 2025
Contribution: Enhancing the Functionality of Layered Hybrid Perovskites
Malte Sebastian Beccard, Empa
Advisor: Dorina Opris
Conference: EPF 2025
Contribution: Synthesis and characterization of polysiloxanes with photoswitchable dielectric properties
Lena-Kristina Beiersdörfer, ETHZ
Advisor: Helma Wennemers
Conference: APS 2025
Contribution: Selective Recognition of Sucrose by a Synthetic Peptide Receptor in Water
Bence Béla Botlik, ETHZ
Advisor: Bill Morandi
Conference: ESOC 2025
Contribution: Streamlining the synthesis of pyridones through oxidative amination of cyclopentenones
Yannick Brägger, ETHZ
Advisor: Bill Morandi
Conference: ESOC 2025
Contribution: Oxidative Amination by Nitrogen Atom Insertion into Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds
Leonie Braks, UniFr
Advisor: Ali Coskun
Conference: MRS 2025
Contribution: Lithium Metal Interface Engineering Using Organic Additives and Coatings in Sulfide-Based All-Solid-State Batteries
Anton Budeev, UniBas
Advisor: Christof Sparr
Conference: ESOC 2025
Contribution: Catalyst Control Over Pentavalent Stereocentres
Julien Chong, UniGe
Advisor: Claude Piguet
Conference: ISMSC 2025
Contribution: Complex-as-Ligand Strategy Using 2,2’-Biimidazole for Bridging CrIII∙∙∙LnIII in Metallosupramolecular Assemblies
Dominic Egger, ETHZ
Advisor: Bill Morandi
Conference: ESOC 2025
Contribution: Iridium-catalyzed C–N bond metathesis of tertiary amines
Noga Eren, EPFL
Advisor: Kay Severin
Conference: ISMSC 2025
Contribution: pi-basic Au3(pyrazolate)3 complexes as building blocks for the construction of molecular cages
Roman Fortunatus Mmanda, AMI
Advisor: Alke Fink
Conference: 4th Food Chemistry Conference
Contribution: Probing the Stability and Interactions of Tocopherol and β-Carotene in Zein Nanoparticles Using Raman Spectroscopy.
Domenico Gioffrè, ETHZ
Advisor: Christophe Copéret
Conference: EUROMAR 2025
Contribution: Classification and Identification of Facet- and Edge-Specific γ-Al2O3 Surface Sites from 1H/27Al NMR Cross-Signatures and DFT Modelling
Natasha Hales, PSI
Advisor: Emiliana Fabbri
Conference: ICE 2025
Contribution: Confining surface oxygen redox in double perovskites for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction activity and stability
Rahel Heeb, ETHZ
Advisor: Helma Wennemers
Conference: APS 2025
Contribution: pH-Dependent Cellular Uptake of CPPs – Guanidinium versus Oxyguanidinium Proline
Steffen Honrath, ETHZ
Advisor: Jean-Christophe Leroux
Conference: ASGCT 2025
Contribution: Closing the gap: Boosting the TFAMoplex transfection system with bZIP domains allows comparison versus AAVs
Na Jin, UniBe
Advisor: Eva Hevia
Conference: OMCOS XXII
Contribution: Regioselective Direct Cobaltation of N-heterocyclic Molecules Mediated by a Super Basic Co(II) Amide
Péter Pál Kalapos, ETHZ
Advisor: Peter Chen
Conference: OMCOS XXII
Contribution: Reactivity of a rhenium(VII)-methylidyne complex: kinetic protonation and olefin metathesis
Kasimir Kienbeck, UZH
Advisor: Roland Sigel
Conference: RNA 2025
Contribution: Theta Ribozymes: Making the Cut in tRNA Maturation
Hwangseok Kim, ETHZ
Advisor: Tae-Lim Choi
Conference: ACS Spring 2026
Contribution: Development of Low-Temperature Pd/Ag Dual-Catalytic Direct Arylation Polymerization for the Sustainable Synthesis of a Library of Donor−Acceptor Conjugated Polymers
Mingliang Liu, UniFr
Advisor: Ali Coskun
Conference: IBA 2025
Contribution: "Accelerated Reversible Conversion of Li2S2 to Li2S by Spidroin Regulated Li+Flux for High-performance Li-Sulfur Batteries
Christine Marty, EPFL
Advisor: Jerome Waser
Conference: ICHIC 8, 2025
Contribution: Ligand-directed bioconjugation of native protein with hypervalent iodine-based Ethynylbenziodoxolones (EBXs) Reagents.
Christeena Mathew, EPFL
Advisor: Kay Severin
Conference: EFMC-ASMC 2025
Contribution: Vicinal Disubstitution Reactions of Densely Substituted Arenes via 1,2-Bis-Triazenylarenes
Anton Natter, UZH
Advisor: Alexandria Deliz Liang
Conference: 2025 GRC Protein Engineering
Contribution: Directed Evolution By Codon Reassignment
Marta Oggioni, AMI
Advisor: Christoph Weder
Conference: EPF 2025
Contribution: A systems approach to stimuli-responsive supramolecular polymeric materials
Yanlin Pan, ETHZ
Advisor: Máté Bezdek
Conference: 2025 MRS Fall
Contribution: Triphenylphosphine Oxide: A Versatile Covalent Functionality for Carbon Nanotubes
Ann-Sophie Paschke, ETHZ
Advisor: Bill Morandi
Conference: ESOC 2025
Contribution: Carbon-to-nitrogen atom swap enables direct access to benzimidazoles from drug-like indoles
Laura Marie Poller, ETHZ
Advisor: Helma Wennemers
Conference: APS 2025
Contribution: Collagen Cross-Linking: Structure and Sequence Selectivity of Lysyl Oxidase-Like 2
Domen Pregeljc, ETHZ
Advisor: Sereina Riniker
Conference: ACS Fall 2025
Contribution: Advancing free-energy calculations by combining multiscale modeling and multistate enhanced sampling
Jikson Pulparayil Mathew, UniBas
Advisor: Jonathan De Roo
Conference: ACIN 2025
Contribution: Oxo-Clusters as Atomically Precise Nanocrystals in Zirconium-based Esterification Catalysis
Jonas Rackl, ETHZ
Advisor: Helma Wennemers
Conference: GRC Organic Reactions and Processes
Contribution: Organocatalyzed Stereoselective Macrocyclizations
Giacomo Rigoni, UniBe
Advisor: Martin Albrecht
Conference: ISCNC 2025
Contribution: Carbene-supported dinickel complexes for efficient hydroxylation of benzene to phenol
Victor Sabanza Gil, EPFL
Advisor: Philippe Schwaller
Conference: ACS Fall 2025
Contribution: Generative molecular design with steerable and granular synthesizability control
Alexandre Schoepfer, EPFL
Advisor: Clemence Corminboeuf
Conference: GRC Physical Organic Chemistry
Contribution: Feature Selection in Multivariate Linear Regression Models for Data-Efficient Reaction Optimization
Amrita Singh-Morgan, ETHZ
Advisor: Victor Mougel
Conference: ICCDU 2025
Contribution: Engineering a High Conversion System for CO2 Electroreduction to Formic Acid
Sebastian Sjöström, ETHZ
Advisor: Jonathan Hall
Conference: OTS 2025
Contribution: Selective Anti-UMOD ASOs Reduce Kidney Disease Aggregates in Mice with ADTKD-UMOD
Helena Solé Àvila, EPFL
Advisor: Jerome Waser
Conference: GRC Heterocyclic Compounds
Contribution: Strategies in Carboamination: Unlocking Heterocyclic Enamine Synthesis from π Bonds
Shuqing Song, EPFL
Advisor: Kumar Varoon Agrawal
Conference: AIChE 2025
Contribution: Eco-Friendly Synthesis of Ultrathin Zn₂(bim)₄ Membranes for High-Performance H₂/CO₂ Separation Under Pressurized Conditions
Nikolai Tiuftiakov, UniGe
Advisor: Eric Bakker
Conference: ISE 2025
Contribution: Exploring the Fundamental Limits and Opportunities of Reference Electrodes based on Organic Electrolytes
Marc-Eduard Usteri, ETHZ
Advisor: Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Conference: EuropaCat 2025
Contribution: Explainable Artificial Intelligence Elucidates Synthesis-Structure- Property-Function Relationships in Nanostructured Catalysts
Roberto Valenza, EPFL
Advisor: Sophia Haussener
Conference: MRS Fall Meeting 2025
Contribution: Membraneless electrolysis for H2 production from organic waste with integrated CO2 capture
Vasiliki Valsamidou, UniBe
Advisor: Dmitry Katayev
Conference: Pacifichem 2025
Contribution: Mechanochemical Nitration of Arenes and Alcohols Using a Bench-Stable Organic Nitrating Reagent
Dorothee Wagner, UniBas
Advisor: Oliver S. Wenger
Conference: ISPPCC 2025
Contribution: Long-lived terphenyl radical anion super-reductant for photocatalysis formed via upconversion
Wuchao Wang, Empa
Advisor: Kongchang Wei
Conference: ICGSC2025
Contribution: Green fabrication of PLA biomedical devices with bio-based solvents
Lionel Wettstein, ETHZ
Advisor: Máté Bezdek
Conference: 247th ECS Meeting
Contribution: A Dye-Sensitized Sensor for Oxygen Detection under Visible Light
