On 20 December 2018, IUPAC and IYCN jointly revealed the names of eight younger chemists being awarded an element of the Periodic Table of Younger Chemists.

Find more information about the Periodic Table of Younger Chemists: https://iupac.org/100/pt-of-chemist/

Congratulations to all new awardees:

- Cr, chromium, Elisa Orth, Associate professor at Federal University of Paraná, in Brazil

- Be, beryllium, Gabriela Desireé Tormet-González, from Venezuela, PhD Candidate, University of Campinas (Brazil)

- V, vanadium, Guihua Yu, Professor, University of Texas Austin, USA

- Nb, niobium, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Professor at Yokohama National University, Japan

- Ta, tantalum, James Gardner, Associate professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden

- Pd, palladium, Ilja Voets, Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in Netherlands

- Ce, cerium, Martine Abboud from Lebanon, Junior Research Fellow at University of Oxford (UK)

- Os, osmium, Juris Meija, Research Officer at National Research Council of Canada

IUPAC and IYCN will jointly announce the latest awardees of the Periodic Table of Younger Chemists and provide an update on IUPAC100 celebration activities. This webinar will be co-hosted by Christine Dunne and Lori Ferrins on Dec 20, 2018 8:00 PM EST.

If you want to follow this event, please register at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7974447070027417347

We would like to advertise a job opening for a doctoral student in inorganic chemistry at Lund University, Sweden. The project involves the development and study of organometallic compounds based primarily on late metals. Focus will be on the development of catalysts for deoxygenation/defunctionalization of carbonyls through hydrogenation/hydrogenolysis.

Please be referred to the full job opening:

https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:238679/type:job/where:4/apply:1

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) released a report titled “Breaking the barriers – Women’s retention and progression in the chemical sciences”.

This report relies on an open survey of roughly 1800 respondents including non-chemists and highlights issues women face in making a chemistry career in academia in the UK.

Although this is the main focus of the report, most of the addressed problems are common for women and men trying to stay in academia in general and not necessarily typical for the UK academics only.

IYCN supports equal opportunities for everyone establishing their own personal career despite their career choice.

Therefore, we want to encourage you to read this report and share with us any experiences you have faced or observed during your career trajectory.

You can find the original report under the following link.