Dream Chemistry Award 2024 Final – Schedule
Five finalists, selected by the DCA Scientific Committee, have been invited to present their dream projects and compete for the Dream Chemistry Award 2024. The final event will take place on December 2–3 at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Day 1: December 2
9:30 – 9:40 Opening: Prof. Adam Kubas, Director (Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS), Prof. Robert Hołyst (Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS), Prof. Pavel Jungwirth (IOCB Prague)
9:40 – 10:20 Finalist: Raya Sorkin (Tel Aviv University, Israel): Novel Non Hormonal Contraceptives
10:20 – 11:00 Finalist: Richard Liu (Harvard University, USA): Organic Molecules That Mimic Transition Metals for Sustainable Chemical Synthesis
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:00 Finalist: Zhiling Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA): Programmable and Tunable Chemical Structures from Molecular Building Units (via zoom)
12:00 – 12:40 Finalist: Mathijs Mabesoone (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands): Data-Driven Evolution of Sustainable Peptide Materials
12:40 – 13:40 Lunch break
13:40 –14:20 Finalist: Maxx Arguilla (University of California Irvine, USA): Bioinspired Design of Atomically Precise All-Inorganic Chains for Atomic Scale Integrated Circuitry
Day 2: December 3
9:30 – 10:00 Award Ceremony
10:00 – 11:00 Lecture of the Dream Chemistry Award 2024 Winner
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 SPECIAL EVENT – Lecture: My Dream – Prof. Robert Hołyst (Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS)
12:30 – 12:40 Closing ceremony
