The winning proposal is on a cutting-edge topic from any area of chemistry research. The topic can be mono- or multidisciplinary and we encourage topics that bring together researchers from the academic community and the public/private sector.
What we seek
- the main applicant is from academia, pursuing her/his postdoc or tenure track in the Netherlands
- an innovative scientific program, that takes us beyond current boundaries
- an open and interactive format, with few lectures
- at least one scientific organizer based outside the Netherlands
What we offer
- a 5-day workshop at the Lorentz Center
- workshop budget for e.g. travel and accommodation reimbursements up to 15 k€
- no registration fees or other organizational costs
- a professional support organization, under the philosophy ‘you do the research, we do the rest’
Information
Please find answers to several FAQ's here.
Or contact:
Shirin Faraji, chair Chemistry Board Lorentz Center, s.s.faraji@rug.nl
Anna Tudos, manager Lorentz Center, tudos@lorentzcenter.nl
Chemistry competition winners
2023 Winner
Thinking out of the ring. Present and future of small cyclic compounds
Irene Regeni, Leiden University
Ricardo I. Rodríguez, University of Padova
Olga García Mancheño, Münster University
Kevin Brown, University of Indiana
Florent Beaufils, SpiroChem
2023 Runner-up
Neutral and Ion Photochemistry in Planetary Atmospheres
Robin Baeyens, University of Amsterdam
Annemieke Petrignani, University of Amsterdam
Jonathan Tennyson, University College London
Antonio García Muñoz, Université Paris-Saclay
2021
Photocatalysis – challenges and future perspectives
Sonja Pullen, University of Amsterdam
Line Næsborg, WWU Münster
Sebastian Beil, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry
2020
Artificial Intelligence for Natural Product Drug Discovery
Marnix Medema, Bioinformatics Group
Gerard van Westen, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research
Anna Hirsch, Department for drug design and optimization
Serina Robinson, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
Roger Linington, Department of Chemistry
2019
Johannes Klein, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Vera Krewald, TU Darmstadt
Daniël Broere, Utrecht University
