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Latest News
Our 2026 #RSCPoster conference took place on LinkedIn for 24 hours, from 3-4 March. We’re pleased to share the winner in the #RSCDigital category is Alister Goodfellow for the poster XYZ to Chemical Insight: TS analysis, Molecular Graphs and Visualisation!
This year’s runner-up is Stefania Monteleone, who presented MApyl: Evotec’s HPC workflow automation system.
Congratulations to the winners, and our thanks to all of the contributors for their excellent posters. Find out about the winners in other categories on our web page: 2026 #RSCPoster winners.
We were pleased to highlight the contributions of women in accelerated science, with a special article collection which you can read here: Celebrating International Women’s Day 2026: Women in Digital Discovery.
Themed Collections
We’re pleased to announce that our themed collection of articles from the participants of the 2023 and 2024 Accelerate Conferences is now online! This collection is Guest Edited by Prof. Janine George (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) and Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany), Prof. Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) and Prof. Kristofer Reyes (University at Buffalo, United States).
Produced in collaboration with the Acceleration Consortium, organisers of the Accelerate Conference, this collection features paper that span innovations in algorithms, decision-making, and integrated self-driving laboratories—from efficient experimental design and probabilistic programming to orchestration frameworks coordinating sensing, actuation, and learning. Collectively, they illustrate new principles for accelerating and scaling discovery. Read the collection for more. We look forward to featuring the contributors to the 2025 conference in a themed collection that is already under way, to be published in 2025-2026.
Events
Our Executive Editor Anna Rulka (below, centre) Digital Discovery represented Digital Discovery at the Second international symposium on High-Throughput Catalysts Design (HTCD 2026) in Lille on 30-31 March. We joined Reaction Chemistry & Engineering and Catalysis Science & Technology in sponsoring awards at the meeting.
Our congratulations to Paco Laveille (ETH Zurich, not pictured) for the best plenary lecture award; Samuel Gleason (Entalpic, right) for the best oral presentation; and Sara Arteche Echeverría (Sanofi and UCCS, second from right) for the best poster!
The journals are also collaborating on a themed collection featuring work from the participants of the meeting. Find out more here, and look out for information on the collection when the articles are published this year.
We recently supported the RSC CICAG–RSC SERAC RSC Analyticode meeting at Burlington House, London, and are delighted to announce that Kefeng Huang from the University of York won the best poster prize for their work titled “TARMAC: A Taxonomy for Robot Manipulation in Chemistry”. Our congratulations to Kefeng!
Digital Discovery and Reaction Chemistry & Engineering are pleased to support prizes for best talk and best poster at this year’s 9th Machine Learning and AI in (Bio)Chemical Engineering Conference taking place in Cambridge, UK on 6-7 July. The MABC is a highlight of the UK conference calendar, targeting developers and advanced users of AI/ML within the context of chemistry and biochemical engineering. Visit the web page to find out more and register.
A group of RSC journals including Digital Discovery will be sponsoring prizes for the best posters at the 11th Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC-XI) taking place August 17-21 2026 in Toronto. We join Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Materials Horizons, Materials Advances, and Nanoscale Advances in wishing the best to all the participants in this cross-disciplinary meeting! Following the conference, we’ll also be inviting the participants to contribute to a themed collection across many of these journals – look out for more information soon.
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