The Division of Materials Chemistry of the SCS is proud to celebrate the winners of the 2026 MatChem PhD Student Awards. The program is sponsored by Sika and Vigor and the awardees receive a prize money of CHF 1'000 each.

The board of the MatChem Division as well as the SCS Head Office like to congratulate the two winners:

Dr. Amrita Singh-Morgan (PhD in the group of Prof. Victor Mougel, ETH Zurich), currently Postdoc in the Mougel group at ETHZ.
PhD thesis: "Microenvironment Engineering for the Electrochemical Conversion of Flue Gas Components". (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102460).

Dr. Domenico Gioffrè (PhD in the group of Prof. C. Copéret, ETH Zurich) incoming Postdoc at the UC Berkeley, USA
PhD thesis: "Metal Sites in Heterogeneous Catalysts: Local Coordination Environments and Interfaces from Solid-State NMR Tensor Decoding". (https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17358).

MatChem PhD Student Award
The prizes are given for outstanding PhD thesis' that were performed in the area of materials chemistry within Switzerland between January 2025 and May 2026.
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