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PCCP is delighted to announce the following winners from the recent Bunsentagung 2012 which took place last month in Leipzig, Germany.

The winners of the PCCP Poster Prize were: Dr. Jan Philipp Hofmann (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Dr. Axel Rosenhahn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) and Dr. Felix Plamper (RWTH Aachen University, Germany). 

PCCP Poster Prize winners Dr. Jan Philipp Hofmann, Dr. Axel Rosenhahn and Dr. Felix Plamper with PCCP Ownership Board member Professor Martin Quack

A further 10 winners were also awarded with the PCCP ‘Hot Topics’ Prize:

• Dr. Andreas Hofmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Inga Niedermaier (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• Benedikt Uhl (University of Ulm)
• Dr. Ian Grant (Ruhr-University Bochum)
• Henrike Müller-Werkmeister (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
• Nancy Faßheber (University of Kiel)
• Dr. Maik Eichelbaum (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society)
• Dr. Axel Pramann (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)
• Andreas Lesch (The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)
• Roland Frach (TU Dortmand University)

All prizes were presented by Professor Martin Quack, member of the PCCP Ownership Board. PCCP is co-owned by 17 national Societies including the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (DBG). Every time a paper by an author based in Germany is published in PCCP, the DBG receives a financial royalty from the journal. We are proud of PCCP’s strong and historic links with German research.

PCCP has just published a great themed issue on Interfaces of Ionic Liquids to accompany this year’s ‘Hauptthema’ – take a look at the issue today. 

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We are delighted to announce the following winners of the 2012 PCCP Prizes for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics.

Winners of the 2012 PCCP Prizes for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics

Dr. Shuhei Furukawa  (Kyoto University), Dr. Kazuhiko Maeda (The University of Tokyo) and Dr. Satoshi Maeda (Kyoto University) who were all awarded with a commemorative book, a PCCP Prize certificate and a financial award.

The Prizes were presented by Professor Yasuhiro Iwasawa, CSJ President and PCCP Advisory Board member and Dr Niamh O’Connor, PCCP Publisher at the “International Chemists’ Evening” reception held during the 92nd Chemical Society Japan (CSJ) Annual Meeting in March.

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Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
awards the

Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize 2013

in memory of Max Bodenstein, Fritz Haber and Walter Nernst. The prize will be presented at the 112th Annual General Meeting of the German Bunsen-Society from 9 -11 May 2013 in Karlsruhe.

The prize will be awarded to a distinguished younger scientist (of up to 40 years of age) for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of physical chemistry. Suitable candidates of international visibility in their research field will be evaluated by a high level expert selection panel with respect to the scientific quality, originality and independence of their research. Candidates should come from a German-speaking region of Europe or work there at the time of their nomination.

Nominations from established scientists in the area of physical chemistry should include a short CV of the candidate, an overview of the candidate’s scientific achievements and publications, and a supporting statement.

Nominations should be submitted by 1 October 2012 to:

Deutsche Bunsen Gesellschaft
für Physikalische Chemie e.V.
Erika Wöhler
Theodor-Heuss-Allee 25
60486 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

View the PCCP themed issue just published on Interfaces of ionic liquids, Guest Edited by Frank Endres, which will be displayed as the special Bunsen issue at the DBG annual meeting in May 2012.

PCCP was delighted to sponsor two ‘PCCP Poster Prizes’ at the RSC Theoretical Chemistry Group Conference which was held at the University of Nottingham, June 27th – 29th 2011. Visit their website to find out more about the conference and the groups activities.

PCCP Poster Prize winners Ragnar Bjornsson (left) and David Mandive-Tapia (right)

The winners were David Mandive-Tapia (Imperial College London) for a poster entitled “Controlling the mechanism of fulvene S1/S0 decay” and Ragnar Bjornsson (St Andrews) for his poster on “The conformational properties of a flexible zwitterion, 3F-GABA, in solution: QM/MM MD simulations”.

PCCP will be awarding more Poster Prizes this year, so please do let us know of any suitable conferences which PCCP could sponsor in 2012.

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