1st DoSChem Symposium 2021

DoSChem first International Student Symposium in a short retrospective

DoSChem students successfully hosted and organized their first International Student Symposium which took place on 23^rd-24^th of September 2021 at the Faculty of Chemistry.

Our Symposium was thematically organized in three sessions and dedicated to our focus areas of research. Each session was opened by a renowned keynote speaker invited by students and accomplished by excellent student talks and poster session presenting their thrilling and inspiring projects reflecting the great variety of our focus areas from all corners of chemistry.

By hosting this event we hoped to make students and their supervisors aware of our extraordinary discipline range and present the expertise available at DoSChem, motivating them to connect, interact and exchange on all levels.

We captured the highlights of our first DoSChem event within the picture gallery and bullet points outlining best talks, poster awards and attendant keynote speakers below.

We are deeply grateful to everybody who contributed to and made this event possible.

Day 1 (23.09.2021)

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Prof. Gunda Köllensperger (Vice Dean Faculty of Chemistry and DoSChem Steering Committee member) at the opening of the Symposium

Prof. Herbert Waldmann from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany with the lecture: “Chemical Evolution of Natural Product Structure”

Giovanni di Mauro with his talk “Shuttle catalysis enables the one-step synthesis of complex molecules” (best talk award 1st place)

Prof. Damià Barceló Cullerès from the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research in Barcelona, Spain with the lecture: “Emerging Contaminants in European Water Resources”

DoSChem student symposium organizers at the guest speaker dinner “zum Leupold” restaurant

Awarded student talks:

Giovanni di Mauro (Maulide group/Panel C): “Shuttle catalysis enables the one-step synthesis of complex molecules”.
Deborah Romito (Bonifazi group/Panel C): “Chalcogen bonding as supramolecular tool for self-assembled layers in optoelectronic devices”.
Moritz Heindl (González group/Panel A): “Using Laser Fields to Modify the Ultrafast Dynamics of a Transition Metal Complex”.

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Best talk awards: Deborah Romito and Moritz Heindl

Poster awards: Mirela Encheva, Dorá Vörös, Konstantin Raabe and Christian Knittl-Frank (from left to right)

Best scientific and visual poster awards: Mira Flasch

Best talk award 1st place: Giovanni di Mauro

Keynote Speakers:

Panel A: Johannes Hunger from Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany with the talk: “Elucidating Interaction Sites to Understand Specific Ion Effects on Proteins”.

Panel B: Damià Barceló Cullerès from the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research in Barcelona, Spain with the talk: “Emerging Contaminants in European Water Resources”.

Panel C: Herbert Waldmann from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany with the talk: “Chemical Evolution of Natural Product Structure”.