Junior Scientists Participation Fellowships

- The Scientific Leaders of the next Generation!

Thanks to the Division of Fundamental Research of the Swiss Chemical Society and the support of the industrial participants (see Acknowledgements), every year 12-16 young promising European scientists (including Russia and Israel) at the beginning of their academic careers have received a fellowship to participate to the Bürgenstock conference. The intense interactions between junior and senior scientists have inspired much frontier research and are at the origin of many fruitful scientific collaborations.

The Organizing Committee asks leading scientists, former Presidents of the ‘Bürgenstock Conferences’, as well as Presidents of National Academies of Science to nominate candidates at the beginning of their career (PhD degree obtained since no more than 9 years at the application deadline with at least one publication as (co)-corresponding author) for supported participation. The long list of candidates, complemented by spontaneous applications of young researchers, is reviewed by the President and the Organizing Committee. They select the best junior scientists for support based on scientific excellence and diversity.

Since 2019, to promote early world-wide interactions among leading scientists of the next generation, up to two fellowships each will be attributed to young scientists from North/South America and Asia/Oceania/Africa respectively. Nominations will made exclusively by leading scientists selected by the Bürgenstock Committee.

The application for a JSP fellowship must include:
  • a CV, indicating the official date on which the PhD degree was obtained
  • a publication list with publications as corresponding author clearly highlighted and
  • at least one letter of reference
It should be sent to Jérôme Waser from the Organizing Committee ()
Deadline: November 15th 2021.

Industrial JSP
Since 2021, in addition to the academic JSPs, three junior industrial scientists in their first 12 years of career are selected by the organization committee as industrial JSP fellows (without financial support).

Past JSP Awardees

Year 2022

Academic JSP
Dr. Alexis Archambeau, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (FR)
Dr. Martina Delbianco, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interface, Potsdam (DE)
Dr. Ludovic Favereau, University of Rennes (FR)
Prof. Stephan Hacker, Leiden University (NL)
Prof. Luca Laraia, Technical University of Denmark (DK)
Dr. Alastair Lennox, University of Bristol (UK)
Prof. Helena Lundberg, Stockholm University (SE)
Prof. Victor Mougel, ETH Zurich (CH)
Prof. Agnieszka Nowak-Krol, University of Würzburg (DE)
Dr. Bartholomäus Pieber, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interface, Potsdam (DE)
Prof. Rui Shang, University of Tokyo (JP)
Prof. Tomas Solomek, University of Bern (CH)
Dr. Oliver Thorn-Seshold, LMU Munich (DE)
Prof. Alison Wendlandt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (US)

Industrial JSP
Dr. Jean-François Basset, Firmenich SA, Satigny (CH)
Dr. Matthieu Jouffroy, Janssen Pharmaceutica N. V., Beerse (BE)
Dr. Gabriel Schäfer, Idorsia, Allschwil (CH)