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The Gordon F. Kirkbright bursary award is a prestigious annual award that assists a promising early career scientist of any nation to attend a recognised scientific meeting or visit a place of learning. The fund for this bursary was established in 1985 as a memorial to Professor Gordon Kirkbright in recognition of his contributions to analytical spectroscopy and to science in general.

Owing to the generosity of one of our former trustees, an eminent atomic spectroscopist, Professor Edward B.M. Steers, we are now, from 2020, in the position of being able to award an Edward Steers bursary, in addition to the long standing Gordon Kirkbright bursary, to similarly assist a promising early scientist engaged in or utilising analytical spectroscopic techniques.

The ABS Trust defines early career as being either a student, or an employee in a non-tenured academic post or in industry, within 7 years of award of PhD excluding career breaks. The same conditions apply to each bursary.

Applications are invited for both the 2020 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary and the 2020 Edward Steers Bursary. Although both funds are administered by the ABS Trust, the Kirkbright award is not restricted to spectroscopists, but is open to all involved with or utilising analytical science-based techniques.

Application Forms can be downloaded from:

http://www.abstrust.org/kirkirkbright-bursary-award-application-form
and
http://www.abstrust.org/steers-bursary-award-application-form

or for further information visit:

http://www.abstrust.org/, or contact abstrustuk@gmail.com

The closing date for entries is 30 November 2019.

The 99th Chemical Society of Japan Annual Meeting took place in Konan University, Japan between the 16th – 19th March 2019.

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emma Wilson, Director of Publishing delivered a greeting speech and awarded PCCP Prize Certificates for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics with committee chair and PCCP Advisory Board member Professor Yasuhiro Iwasawa.

Prizes were awarded to:

1. Dr. Hikaru Kuramochi, Research Scientist RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics – “Development of ultrafast time-domain Raman spectroscopy using few-cycle pulses and its application to complex molecular systems”

2. Dr. Koji Oohora, Assistant Professor Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering – “Hemoprotein engineering by chemical modification toward artificial enzyme and biomaterials”

3. Dr. Ken Sakaushi, Senior Researcher, National Institute for Materials Science Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials – “Two-Dimensional Conjugated Frameworks towards Unveiling Microscopic Energy Storage/Conversion Mechanisms”

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) in 2018, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Dr Attila Bende, National Institute for R&D of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, ORCID: 0000-0002-5347-1514

Dr Leonardo Bernasconi, University of Pittsburgh, ORCID: 0000-0002-9460-7975

Professor Francesc Illas Riera, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (IQTCUB), ORCID: 0000-0003-2104-6123

Dr Vladan Mlinar, School of Engineering, Brown University, ORCID: 0000-0003-0078-3693

Dr Isao Ohkubo, National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), ORCID: 0000-0002-4187-0112

Dr Aurelien Perera, LPTMC Sorbonne University, ORCID: 0000-0001-9119-6659

Dr Antonio Rizzo, Istituto per I Processi Chimico Fisici (IPCF), CNR

Professor Dennis Salahub, University of Calgary, ORCID: 0000-0002-9848-3762

Dr Ian Shuttleworth, Nottingham Trent University, ORCID: 0000-0001-8655-9718

Dr Héctor Vázquez, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, ORCID: 0000-0002-3865-9922

We would also like to thank the PCCP board and the physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre