QBIC Society Awards
The QBIC Society Award recognises outstanding contributions in the field of inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry that were achieved with theoretical, quantum chemical or computational methods. It intends to recognise a body of work that established new chemical or physical insights into a long-standing question, developed a new method or concept, or defined a new research direction. Calls for nominations open biannually.
Nomination Call for 2023 and 2024 Awards
The QBIC Society opens a call for nominations for the Quantum Bio-Inorganic Chemistry Society Award for the years 2023 and 2024. The award is intended to recognise outstanding contributions in the field of inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry that were achieved with theoretical, quantum chemical or computational methods. It will recognise a specific body of work, developed in one paper or a series of papers, that established new chemical or physical insights into a long-standing question, developed a new method or concept, or defined a new research direction. Awardees will be given the opportunity to present their research in award lectures at the next international QBIC meeting.
Closing date for nominations is February 15th, 2024. For more details, please download the call for nominations.
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Past Awardees
2021 award: Dr. Ragnar Björnsson
The winner of the 2021 award is Dr. Ragnar Björnsson (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion). The award recognizes the outstanding contributions of Dr. Björnsson to the understanding of biological nitrogen reduction, in particular his quantum chemical investigations on the electronic structure and properties of the iron–molybdenum cofactor (FeMoco) of Nitrogenase, its vanadium analogue, as well as on the nature of intermediate forms adopted by the cofactor along the catalytic cycle of biological nitrogen reduction.
2020 award: Dr. Martin Srnec
The winner of the 2020 award is Dr. Martin Srnec (J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry). The award recognizes the outstanding contributions of Dr. Srnec to the theoretical treatment of chemical reactivity, specifically the development of the concept of (a)synchronicity of electron and proton transfer and its application to hydrogen-abstraction reactions, as well as the theoretical description of kinetic energy distribution within reactive modes in relation to reaction selectivity.