Two NJC poster prizes were awarded during the brilliant 6th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (6th ISMSC) in Brighton, UK. NJC wishes to congratulate the two laureates who receive a one-year subscription to the journal. Our thanks go to the organizers of the conference for their help in organizing these awards, and our deep gratitude to all of the senior scientists who served on the jury to select the two winners
The award-winning poster of Mr Graeme Spence, a PhD student at the University of Oxford (UK) in the group of Prof. Paul Beer, was entitled “Investigating the imidazolium motif for anion recognition using templated interlocked structures”. Graeme carried out his undergraduate studies at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, with his final year research project on multiporphyrin assemblies under the supervision of Dr Nick Bampos.
Ms Lena Kaufmann, who is a PhD student at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) in the group of Prof. Christoph Schalley, won for his poster entitled “Efficient synthesis of axle-unsymmetric amide rotaxanes through organocatalytically accelerated trapping reactions“. During her Bachelor thesis, Lena came in contact with supramolecular chemistry and was so fascinated that she decided to stay in this field. Her hobbies are doing sports like running, biking, swimming and handball. What she also likes very much is to take a tent and a canoe or bike and go to the Scandinavian wilderness.
NJC is very proud to be sponsoring the next 7th ISMSC, to be held from 29 January – 5 February 2012 in Otago, New Zealand.
