Albert-Overhauser Award of the GDCh Division Magnetic Resonance

Deadline: March 31, 2025

objective
Since 2019, the Division of Magnetic Resonance of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) has awarded the Albert-Overhauser Award every year to honor an outstanding publication by young scientists in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The research results described are intended to further develop the methodology of magnetic resonance, advance its theoretical understanding or describe important experimental applications; they are characterized by special methodological quality, innovation and creativity.

The price
The award comes with a certificate, prize money of 750 euros and participation in the ^46th FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting, which will take place in Bonn from September 15 to 18, 2025. The awardee will present the award-winning work in a short lecture at the Conference . The costs for participation in the conference will be borne by the Division. The award will be decided by a panel of experts appointed by the Division Board .

nomination/application
The prize is open to postdocs from Germany and other countries. Nominations can be made by the academic supervisor, but applications are also possible. The article must have been accepted or published by the journal during the postdoc period, no longer than four years after the doctoral examination and between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025. All proposals must include an appreciation of the work by the academic supervisor, contact details of the person to be nominated and the publication itself. In the case of a publication with authorship of more than one person, the academic supervisor must comprehensibly explain the contribution of the person to be nominated with regard to the planning, implementation and interpretation of the research results and with regard to the writing of the manuscript.

submission
Please send your proposal electronically and summarized in a PDF file to the GDCh Office for the attention of Maike Fries.

The Albert-Overhauser Award was awarded to Dr. Andrei Kuzhelev during the 45th FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting on September 10, 2024 in Rostock for his publication “Solid-Effect Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Viscous Liquids at 9.4 T Using Narrow-Line Polarizing Agents” ( J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 10268−10274).