ADUC lecture prize

As part of the Chemiedozententagung , the ADUC has been awarding the ADUC Presentation Prize to three speakers since 2025. The award includes a certificate and prize money of €300. All conference participants have the opportunity to vote on the presentations during the conference and thus determine the awardees . The prizes are awarded in the closing session of the Conference .

Presentation of the ADUC lecture prizes at the CDT 2026 on March 4, 2026 in Essen by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Tschierlei (ADUC Chair):

 

• Series A: Tobias Schnitzer (Freiburg), “Sustainable Amidation Reactions – Boronic Acid Catalysis Meets ChatGPT”
• Series B: Gabriele Hierlmeier (Würzburg), “Mechanistic Control of Reductive Elimination from Titanium(IV) for Selective Alkyne Cyclodimerization”
• Series C: Line Næsborg (Münster), “On the importance of the reaction medium for photochemical synthesis”

 

The ADUC lecture prizes will be awarded for the first time at CDT 2025 on March 19, 2025 in Braunschweig by Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Arndt. (ADUC- Chair):

 

• Series A: Jake L. Greenfield (Würzburg), “Driving transimination reactions uphill with imine photoswitches”
• Series B: Schirin Hanf (Karlsruhe), “Short-bite angle hybrid ligands and their transition metal complexes - towards photo-optical and catalytic applications”
• Series C: Anna Krawczuk (Göttingen), “Functionalization of π-conjugated solid-state photoluminescent materials”