LONDON, July 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, the
global information analytics company specializing in science and
health, today announced the 45 finalists for the 2019 Reaxys PhD
Prize.
Launched in 2010, the Reaxys PhD Prize celebrates innovative and
rigorous research by ambitious young chemists. This year's
competition maintained the high standards of previous years. The
Review Committee have rigorously examined over 360 entries from
around the globe to arrive at the 45 finalists.
"We are extremely happy to see the Reaxys PhD Prize established
again," said Dr. Friedrich Kroll,
co-organizer of the competition. "It is so important that young
innovative researchers of different disciplines are gathering to
celebrate their achievements, are supported in establishing
networks to address current scientific challenges—often solvable by
working across disciplines."
The 45 finalists are invited to the Reaxys PhD Prize Symposium
that will be held on October 3 and 4,
2019, in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. This celebratory gathering includes special
events, poster sessions for finalists to showcase their research,
keynote presentations and a gala dinner. It is also a great
opportunity to network with fellow finalists and international
leaders in chemistry.
During the Reaxys Prize Symposium the ten short-listed finalists
will give oral presentations of their research. From these
presentations, the Reaxys Advisory Board will select the three
winners of the 2019 Reaxys PhD Prize. The winners will be announced
at the gala dinner on the final evening of the Symposium.
"This year more than 360 submissions were evaluated by over 200
international chemists from across academia and industry," said
Professor Li-Zhu Wu, Director of the
Supramolecular Photochemistry Lab at the Chinese Academy of
Sciences and one of the Prize coordinators. "The PhD Prize is a
perfect starting point to build relationships and to solve
interdisciplinary problems in science and the environment."
The finalists receive lifelong membership in the Reaxys Prize
Club, an exclusive international network of chemists from all
research areas and career paths. Members also receive unlimited
access to Elsevier's Reaxys platform and Reaxys Medicinal
chemistry.
This year's finalists and their PhD institutions are:
- Mr. Máté Bezdek, Princeton
University
- Mr. Jonas Börgel, Max-Planck
Institut für Kohlenforschung
- Dr. Jeffrey Bruffaerts, Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology
- Ms. Karen De La Vega Hernandez,
Sorbonne Université, Faculté des Sciences et Ingénierie
- Mr. André Eckhardt, University Giessen
- Dr. Aya Eizawa, The University of
Tokyo
- Dr. Alexander Fawcett,
University of Bristol, UK
- Dr. Julie Fenton, The
Pennsylvania State University
- Ms. Ana García Herraiz, Institut Catala d´Investigació Química
(ICIQ)
- Mr. Michael Geeson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mrs. Mallory Green, Emory University
- Mr. Yuwei Gu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Dr. Dominik Halter,
Friedrich-Alexander-University
Erlangen-Nuernberg
- Mr. Tatsuya Higaki, Carnegie Mellon University
- Mrs. Alena Hölzl-Hobmeier, Technische Universität München
- Ms. Suzanne Jansze, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL)
- Dr. Daniel Kaiser, University of
Vienna
- Mr. Gavin Kiel, University of California, Berkeley
- Mr. Yong Ho Lee, ETH Zürich
- Dr. Samuel Levi, Harvard University
- Dr. Lichen Liu, Universitat Politècnica de València
- Mr. Zhen Liu, The Scripps Research Institute
- Mr. Victor Pui-Yan Ma,
Emory University
- Mr. Runze Mao, EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de
Lausanne)
- Mr. Rory McAtee, University of Michigan
- Dr. Yoonsu Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology
- Mr. Andrew Pun, Columbia
University
- Dr. Yujia Qing, University of Oxford
- Dr. Douglas Reed, University of California, Berkeley
- Dr. Felix, Rizzuto University of
Cambridge, UK
- Mr. Jose Roque, University of California, Berkeley
- Dr. Thomas Scattolin, RWTH
Aachen University
- Dr. Elisabeth Speckmeier,
University of Leipzig, Institute
of Organic Chemistry
- Dr. Ryo Takahata, The
University of Tokyo
- Dr. Robert Tromans, University
of Bristol
- Dr. Aaron Trowbridge,
University of Cambridge, UK
- Ms. Yuwen Wang, Technische
Universität Berlin
- Ms. Yi Wei, Central China Normal
University
- Dr. Andrew Wilson, University of
Bath
- Mr. Yumeng Xi, University of California,
Berkeley
- Dr. Yan Xu, The University of Chicago
- Dr. Wen Zhang, Shanghai
Institute of Organic Chemistry
- Mr. Xin Zhang, Nanyang Technological
University
- Dr. Liang Zhang, The University
of Manchester
- Dr. Linan Zhou, Rice University
Find out more about the Reaxys PhD Prize.
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