Chemistry Travel Award 2023

Congratulations to the winners of the Chemistry Travel Award 2023

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 2023 are:

Pardis Adams, University of Zurich
Advisor: David Tilley
Conference: International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies
Contribution: Sequential etching and CuCl₂ treatment strategy for improved performance in Sb₂Se₃ water splitting photocathodes

David Anderson, University of Bern
Advisor: Eva Hevia
Conference: 21^st International Symposium in Organometallic Chemistry Directed Toward Organic Synthesis
Contribution: Highly reactive hydrocarbon soluble alkylsodium reagents for benzylic aroylation of toluenes using weinreb amides

Phil Becker, ETHZ
Advisor: Jonathan Hall
Conference: 19^th Annual Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society
Contribution: Advancements in targeted oligonucleotide therapeutics for splicing correction in erythropoietic protoporphyria

Léonard Bezinge, ETHZ
Advisor: Chih-Jen Shih
Conference: Biosensors 2023
Contribution: A paper-based electrochemical platform with embedded porous electrodes for capillary-driven diagnostic bioassays

Andrea Blankenship, ETHZ
Advisor: Jeroen van Bokhoven
Conference: 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting
Contribution: Rethinking conventions for methane partial oxidation to a methyl ester with heterogeneous catalysts

Julien Borrel, EPFL
Advisor: Jérôme Waser
Conference: 10^th Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry
Contribution: Azido-alkynylation of alkenes through radical-polar crossover

Jasmina Büchel, ETHZ
Advisor: Shana Sturla
Conference: ACS Fall Meeting 2023
Contribution: Single-nucleotide resolution mapping reveals profiles of O6-methylguanine formation and repair in a brain tumor cell line exposed to the anticancer drug temozolomide

Alena Budinská, ETHZ
Advisor: Helma Wennemers
Conference: GRC on Organic Reactions and Processes
Contribution: Organocatalytic synthesis of triflones bearing two non-adjacent stereogenic centers

Matthias Bütikofer, ETHZ
Advisor: Roland Riek
Conference: EUROMAR
Contribution: From screening to structure - boosting NMR-based drug discovery with hyperpolarisation and label-free structure determination

Heng-Yu Chi, EPFL
Advisor: Kumar Varoon Agrawal
Conference: GRC - Nanoporous Materials and Their Applications Gordon Research Conference
Contribution: Unblocking ion-occluded pore channels in poly(triazine imide) framework for proton conduction

Sergio Cuesta Galisteo, University of Zurich
Advisor: Cristina Nevado
Conference: 27^th International symposium: Synthesis in organic chemistry
Contribution: Nickel catalyzed enantioselective C-H benzylic carbamoylation

Sarah Emmert, University of Zurich
Advisor: Pablo Rivera-Fuentes
Conference: Molecular Machinery in Real Time and Space
Contribution: A locally activatable sensor for robust quantification of organellar GSH

Isabella Ferrara, University of Zurich
Advisor: Karl Gademann
Conference: IX EFMC International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry
Contribution: Semi-synthesis of thioglycoside derivatives of the natural product antibiotic fidaxomicin

Takuji Fujii, EPFL
Advisor: Jieping Zhu
Conference: 22^nd European Symposium on Organic Chemistry
Contribution: [2+2] Annulation between arylboronic acids and alkenes enabled by Pd(II)/(IV)-redox cycle

Lucía Gallego Aibar, University of Zurich
Advisor: Michel Rickhaus
Conference: 17^th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry
Contribution: Restricting the shape-assisted self-assembly of carpyridines to one dimension

Vera Giulimondi, ETHZ
Advisor: Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Conference: 15^th European Congress on Catalysis
Contribution: Unraveling the catalytic role of Pt single atom catalysts in acetylene hydrochlorination by operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Illia Hutskalov, University of Zurich
Advisor: Ilija Coric
Conference: 17^th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry
Contribution: Directional ionic bonds

Valeriia Hutskalova, University of Basel
Advisor: Christof Sparr
Conference: 27^th International symposium: Synthesis in organic chemistry
Contribution: Modular synthesis, applications and photophysical study of novel acridinium photocatalysts

Marie Jones, EPFL
Advisor: Jeremy Luterbacher
Conference: Biomass to Biobased Chemicals and Materials GRC
Contribution: Life-cycle analysis of functionalized lignocellulosic sugars as biobased substitutes for polymers and solvents

Yuya Kakiuchi, ETHZ
Advisor: Christophe Copéret
Conference: BlueSky/Incorep Polyolefin Conference
Contribution: Surface sites of V-based olefin polymerization Ziegler-Natta pre-catalyst – VOCl₃-MgCl₂ – from ⁵¹V ssNMR

Luisa Joëlle Kubeneck, ETHZ
Advisor: Ruben Kretzschmar
Conference: Goldschmidt 2023
Contribution: Unravelling vivianite formation in-situ in intertidal sediments: The role of P-adsorbed ferrihydrite as a precursor

Aline Linder, ETHZ
Advisor: Klaus Eyer
Conference: 12^th Meeting of the International Society of Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases
Contribution: Measuring pro-inflammatory dynamics of individual secreting cells to study cellular dysregulation

Annabell Martin, EPFL/University of Zurich
Advisor: Pablo Rivera-Fuentes
Conference: FASEB The Optical Probes Conference: Discovery to Application
Contribution: A general strategy to develop fluorogenic polymethine dyes for bioimaging

Fabio Masero, ETHZ
Advisor: Victor Mougel
Conference: Organometallic Chemistry GRC
Contribution: Tetravalent 𝛽-diketonate molybdenum complexes as highly active catalysts for allylic substitution reactions

Tom Nelis, EPFL
Advisor: Jeremy Luterbacher
Conference: 15th European Congress on Catalysis
Contribution: Heterogeneous catalyst development for the hydrogenation of thermally unstable acid-sensitive esters

Anna Nobile, ETHZ
Advisor: Christophe Copéret
Conference: BlueSky/Incorep Polyolefin Conference
Contribution: Designing molecularly defined Cr(III)-alkyl analogs to Cr-based ethylene polymerization catalysts

Robin Nussbaum, University of Geneva
Advisor: Eric Bakker
Conference: XVI International Estuarine Biogeochemistry Symposium
Contribution: Improving constant potential coulometry for in situ ultransensitive pH measurement

Valery Okatenko, EPFL
Advisor: Raffaella Buonsanti
Conference: ACS Fall 2023
Contribution: Ga-based nanoparticles provide new strategies for stable CO₂ reduction electrocatalysts

Jiaming Peng, University of Basel
Advisor: Florian Seebeck
Conference: The 16^th International Symposium on Biocatalysis and Biotransformations (Biotrans 2023)
Contribution: Exploring the scope of methyltransferase biocatalysis

Marie Perrin, ETHZ
Advisor: Victor Mougel
Conference: 6^th EuChemS Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry
Contribution: Europium recovery from e-waste using redox active ligands.

Lauriane Pillet, University of Bern
Advisor: Francesca Paradisi
Conference: Biotrans 2023
Contribution: Novel triple mutant of an extremophilic glycosyl hydrolase enables the rapid synthesis of thioglycosides

Salome Püntener, University of Zurich
Advisor: Pablo Rivera-Fuentes
Conference: Chemical Imaging
Contribution: Single-molecule peptide identification using fluorescence blinking fingerprints

Mikus Purins, EPFL
Advisor: Jérôme Waser
Conference: GRC - Catalysis, Methods and Strategies Empowering Organic Synthesis
Contribution: Chemodivergent asymmetric synthesis via a catalytically formed chiral auxiliary

Perrine Robin, EPFL
Advisor: Sandrine Gerber
Conference: Biosensors 2023
Contribution: DNA-biosensors for reaching attomolar detection of viruses from saliva

Sven Roediger, ETHZ
Advisor: Bill Morandi
Conference: 23^rd Tetrahedron Symposium
Contribution: Transition metal-free cross-electrophile coupling of unactivated C(sp3)-fragments

Jeannette Ruf, University of Zurich
Advisor: Peter Hamm
Conference: Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy
Contribution: The molecular mechanism of light-induced bond formation and breakage in the cyanobacteriochrome TePixJ

Kostiantyn Sakhatskyi, ETHZ
Advisor: Maksym Kovalenko
Conference: PSCO23
Contribution: Stable perovskite single-crystal X-ray imaging detectors with single-photon sensitivity

Ona Segura Lecina, EPFL
Advisor: Raffaella Buonsanti
Conference: ACS Fall 2023 Harnessing the power of data
Contribution: Stable and luminescent colloidal ALD-grown quantum dot@metal-oxide hybrids

Gulsana Sissengaliyeva, University of Bern
Advisor: Philippe Renaud
Conference: 10^th Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry
Contribution: Hydroperfluoroalkylation of unactivated alkenes

Miguel Steiner, ETHZ
Advisor: Markus Reiher
Conference: IUPAC World Chemistry Congress
Contribution: Steering automated mechanism exploration in chemical reaction space

Sylvain Sudan, EPFL
Advisor: Kay Severin
Conference: The International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry
Contribution: Palladium-based metallosupramolecular assemblies: from complex structures to simple water-soluble anion-receptors

Wowa Stroek, University of Bern
Advisor: Martin Martin Albrecht
Conference: GRC Organometallic Chemistry: New Frontiers in Synthesis, Catalysis and Materials Chemistry
Contribution: Synthesis and reactivity of a stable organoazide iron complex and its relevance to C–H bond amination

Kai Zhang, University of Zurich
Advisor: Michel Rickhaus
Conference: 17^th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry
Contribution: At the core of dynamic polymers: the self-assembly of twisted aryl amines

Jiangtao Zhao, University of Geneva
Advisor: Thomas Bürgi
Conference: ACS Fall 2023
Contribution: Implantation of metal complexes on Au₂₅ nanocluster for enhanced photocoupled electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction

Chenglian Zhu, ETHZ
Advisor: Maksym V. Kovalenko
Conference: PSCO-2023
Contribution: Many-body correlations and exciton complexes in CsPbBr₃ quantum dots