Each year, the Working Group Separation Science awards the Ernst-Bayer Award to a young scientist during its doctoral seminar in Hohenroda. The prize, which includes a certificate and €1,000, recognizes an outstanding article in the field of analytical separation techniques that has already been published or accepted for publication in an international peer-reviewed journal . Both nominations and applications are welcome. Candidates should be under 30 years of age and should have completed their doctorate less than one year ago. The award is decided by a jury appointed by the working group's Board ; the decisive selection criterion is the scientific quality of the article.
Submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Objective
The Working Group Separation Science of the GDCh Division of Analytical Chemistry awards the Ernst-Bayer Award annually to recognize an outstanding publication by young scientists in the field of analytical separation techniques.
The price
The award includes a certificate, prize money of 1000 euros, and participation in the 37th PhD seminar of the working group, which will take place in Hohenroda from January 17 to 19, 2027. The awardee present their prize-winning publication in a short lecture during the seminar. The prize is awarded by a panel of experts appointed by the working group's Board ; the decisive selection criterion is the scientific quality of the submitted work.
Nomination/Application
Both nominations and applications are welcome. The prize is open to all first authors of a publication that appeared or was accepted in an international peer-reviewed scientific journal in 2025 or 2026. Authors should be under 30 years of age and should have completed their doctorate no more than one year prior to the award. Applications must clearly state which specific publication is being nominated for the prize. All nominations must include a brief recommendation or appreciation of the article, a CV (including contact information), and the publication itself.
submission
Please send your proposal electronically and summarized in a single PDF file to Dr. Martin Vogel, the chairman of the separation science working group.
The Ernst-Bayer Award 2026 was awarded to Julius Schwieger (University of Leipzig) on January 12, 2026, during the 36th Doctoral Seminar in Hohenroda . His publication was recognized with the award.
“Novel Pinhole Emitter Chip for Micro Supercritical Fluid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry with Integrated Dilution-Free Fluidic Back-Pressure Regulation” in the journal Analytical Chemistry 2024, 96 (50), 20107-20114.
Year | awardee: | publication |
| 2026 | M.Sc. Julius Schwieger |
Novel Pinhole Emitter Chip for Micro Supercritical Fluid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry with Integrated Dilution-Free Fluidic Back-Pressure Regulation Analytical Chemistry 2024, 96 (50), 20107-20114 |
| 2025* | Dr. Simon Jonas Jaag | Three-Minute Enantioselective Amino Acid Analysis by Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Drift Tube Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Using a Chiral Core−Shell Tandem Column Approach |
| 2023 | Valentin Göldner | Electrochemistry-mass spectrometry bridging the gap between suspect and target screening of valsartan transformation products in wastewater treatment plant effluent |
| 2022 | Robert GH Marks | How to Couple LC-IRMS with HRMS – A Proof-of-Concept Study |
| 2021 | Nora T. Hartner | On-Line Coupling of Chip-Electrochromatography and Ion Mobility Spectrometry |
| 2020 | Patrick Olaf Helmer |
Mass spectrometric investigation of cardiolipins and their oxidation products after two-dimensional heart-cut liquid chromatography |
| 2019 | Bernhard Durner | High-resolution high performance liquid chromatography: Application of a saw tooth gradient for the separation of various polymers |
| 2018 | Ulrich Woiwode | Imaging Peptide and Protein Chirality via Amino Acid Analysis by Chiral x Chiral Two-Dimensional Correlation Liquid Chromatography |
| 2017 | Susanne Stephan | Contaminant screening of wastewater with HPLC-IM-qTOF-MS and LC+LCIM-qTOF-MS using a CCS database |
| 2016 | Carsten Lotter | HPLC-MS with Glass Chips Featuring Monolithically Integrated Electrospray Emitters of Different Geometries |
| 2015 | Marco Nestola | Universal Route to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Analysis in Foodstuff: Two-Dimensional Heart Cut Liquid Chromatography-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry |
| 2014 | Pablo A. Kler | Non-aqueous electrolytes for isotachophoresis of weak bases and its application to the comprehensive preconcentration of the 20 proteinogenic amino acids in column-coupling ITP/CE-MS Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry 2014, 406, 7163-7174 |
| 2013 | Andrea Francesco Giuseppe Gargano | Mixed-mode chromatography with zwitterionic phosphopeptidomimetic selectors from Ugi multicomponent reaction |
| 2012 | Dorothea Kujawinski | When Other Separation Techniques Fail: Compound-Specific Carbon Isotope Ratio Analysis of Sulfonamide Containing Pharmaceuticals by High-Temperature-Liquid Chromatography-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry |
| 2011 | Marek Mahut | Plasmid DNA manufacturing: Topology-selective chromatography reveals Plasmid supercoiling shifts during fermentation and allows rapid and efficient preparation of topoisomers |
| 2010 | Stefanie Fritzsche | Chip Electrophoresis with Mass Spectrometric Detection in Record Speed |
| 2009 | Nathanael Delmotte | Repeatability of peptide identifications in shotgun proteome analysis employing off-line two-dimensional chromatographic separations and ion-trap MS |
| 2008 | Wiebke Lohmann | Generation and Identification of Reactive Metabolites by Electrochemistry and Immobilized Enzymes Coupled On-Line to Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry |
| 2007 | Ivo Nischang | Key to Analyte Migration and Retention in Electrochromatography |
| 2006 | Pavel A. Levkin | Combining the Enantioselectivities of L-Valine Diamide and Permethylated ß-Cyclodextrin in One Gas Chromatographic Chiral Stationary Phase |
| 2005 | Suzanna Maria van Leuwen | Prediction of clozapine metabolism by on-line electrochemistry/liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry |
| 2004 | Jens Dahlmann | Liquid chromatography-electrospray ioniosation-mass spectrometry based method for the simultaneous determination of algal and cyanobacterial toxins phytoplankton from marine waters and lakes followed by tentative structural elucidation of microcystins |
| 2003 | Felix C. Leinweber | Chromatographic performance of monolithic and particulate stationary phases. Hydrodynamics and adsorption capacity |
*Adjustment of the price year to the award year.
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