Thomas Ebbesen and Cyriaque Genet are the laureates of a prestigious ERC Synergy grant with three other teams at the University of Tel Aviv, the University of Pennsylvania and the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg.
Category Archives: Awards
Jean-François Lutz, winner of the Langevin Prize 2024
On October 15th, the French Academy of Sciences awarded the Langevin Prize to Jean-François Lutz, for his work on “informational” polymers. Created in 1945 on the initiative of French physicist Paul Langevin, as a tribute to the memory of French scientists murdered by the Nazis in 1940-1945, this prize … Continue Reading ››
L’Oréal UNESCO Prize for Women in science
Emilie Werner, a former doctoral student in the chemical catalysis laboratory at ISIS (Joseph Moran's team), has recently been awarded the Prix Jeunes Talents France 2024 L'Oréal Unesco “Pour les femmes et la science”. Emilie is one of 35 young female researchers selected from over 800 applicants for the research she carried out … Continue Reading ››
Dr Giulio Ragazzon is a laureate of the 2023 Guy Ourisson Prize
Paolo Samorì joins the elite of German science and engineering
Paolo Samorì elected to the Academy of Technologies
Director of the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (Isis – CNRS/Unistra), Paolo Samorì is one of 14 new members elected at the end of 2022 to the French Academy of Technology, where he joins Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize winner from the University of Strasbourg and founder of Isis.
Claudia Bonfio was awarded with Gold medal EYRA (European Young Researchers’ Award, Early Career level) and Gold Medal EYCA (European Young Chemists’ Award, Early Career level)
EYRA (European Young Researchers’ Award, Early Career level) - given by EuroScience & Elsevier
n July 2022, Claudia attended ESOF2022 in Leiden (NL) and received the European Young Researchers’ Award (sponsored by Elsevier). The European Young Researchers’ Award is awarded every two years by EuroScience to young researchers … Continue Reading ››
Amir HOVEYDA awarded an ERC Advanced Grants 2021
New Catalysts for Synthesis of Stereodefined and Modifiable Tetrasubstituted Alkenes
Acronym: HISUBMET
Tetrasubstituted olefins are key to drug discovery, and the ability to access such entities is crucial. Pioneering studies have led to noteworthy advances but significant shortcomings remain. For example, it is especially challenging to … Continue Reading ››
Prof. Joseph Moran has received the 2022 Liebig Lectureship
Prof. Joseph Moran has received the 2022 Liebig Lectureship from the Organic Division of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker). The award is given each year to an outstanding young scientist in organic chemistry, preferably to one working in a European country outside Germany. Moran will give a … Continue Reading ››
“GIULIO RAGAZZON AWARDED AN ERC STARTING GRANT”
Giulio Ragazzon, group leader of the Laboratory of Driven Chemical Processes, has secured an ERC Starting grant for the research project KI-NET - “Energy transduction in kinetically asymmetric catalytic networks’. When we open a bottle of sparkling water, the gas bubbles come out and never return to the bottle. This process has a preferential … Continue Reading ››