2009 News Archive

Young Chemists Groups in Europe
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3 March 2009 - The Portuguese Chemical Society is pleased to announce the creation of the Young Chemists Group. Among its activities the Group are already planning a national scientific meeting for PhD and Post-Doc students, designed to help them to communicate their work - how to learn best practice among their peers.
International Year of Chemistry in 2011
16 March 2009 - John Malin, Chair of the IYC Management Committee reports that planning for the International Year of Chemistry (IYC) in 2011 has begun.
Professor Meinrat O. Andreae gives EuCheMS Lecture
9 June 2009 - Professor Meinrat Andreae will deliver the EuCheMS Lecture ‘The aerosolized biosphere – Recent insights into the chemical nature of biogenic aerosols’ at the 12th EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment on 15 June 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden.
The topic of Professor Andreae’s Lecture is very timely in view of the on-going problems of climate change caused by anthropogenic inputs of carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases, aerosols and aerosol precursors into the atmosphere.
Meinrat Andreae is the Director of the Biogeochemistry Department and, currently, also the Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. Since 1976 he has conducted studies on the interaction of the biosphere and the atmosphere, with emphasis on atmospheric aerosols and trace gases. He collaborates world-wide with a sizeable number of scientific institutions. He is a member of the scientific steering committee of the international programme Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), co-chair of the scientific steering committee of Integrated Land Ecosystem – Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS) and head of the scientific advisory board of the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO).
The EuCheMS Lecture honours outstanding achievements by a European chemist. It also serves to enhance the image of European chemistry and to promote scientific cooperation in Europe. It rotates among EuCheMS member societies and is delivered at a scientific event outside the lecturer’s own country.

12th International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment
14 June 2009 - 17 June 2009
Stockholm University, Sweden
EuCheMS Event number: 359
Email: ulrika(at)chemsoc.se

Professor Meinrat O. Andreae
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Professor Walter Kaminski gives EuCheMS Lecture
9 June 2009 - Professor Walter Kaminski will give the EuCheMS Lecture ‘Polyolefins – tailored by metallocene catalysts and easy pyrolyzed for feedstock recycling’ at the 18th EuCheMS Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (EuCOMC) on 25 June 2009 in Göteborg. Sweden
The topic of Walter Kaminski’s Lecture is very relevant in the context of the current drive towards sustainability.
Walter Kaminski is Professor of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Hamburg. His main field of research is polymer science. He supervises a research group looking into recycling plastics and scrap tyres through pyrolysis, at the same time yielding valuable hydrocarbon fraction from hydrocarbon-containing waste. The life-cycle perspective addresses both production and recycling while minimising use of resources and minimising waste. Walter Kaminski has developed highly active, soluble metallocene catalyst systems for the polymerization of olefins, allowing efficient use of feedstock resources for a range of polymers. He has lectured in the fields of chemical engineering, energy production, recycling, land filling and macromolecular chemistry.
The EuCheMS Lecture honours outstanding achievements by a European chemist. It also serves to enhance the image of European chemistry and to promote scientific cooperation in Europe. It rotates among EuCheMS member societies and is delivered at a scientific event outside the lecturer’s own country.

XVlll EuCheMS Conference on Organometallic Chemistry
22 June 2009 - 25 June 2009
Göteborg, Scandinavia
Email: helena.grennberg(at)biorg.uu.se
Website: http://www.chemsoc.se/sidor/KK/comc18/index.htm

Professor Walter Kaminski
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CEFIC LRI Invitation for grant applications
23 July 2009 - The CEFIC Long-range Research Initiative (LRI) is inviting grant applications for research in: indoor exposure, multiple exposure, chemicals sensitizers via novel markers, rapid estimation of trophic magnification factor, critical body burden database, breast cancer. The deadline for applications is 31 August 2009.
The LRI is one of the major voluntary initiatives of the European chemical industry to support its competitiveness and innovation potential. LRI aims to identify and fill gaps in our understanding of the hazards posed by chemicals and to improve the methods available for assessing the associated risks. LRI sponsors high-quality research, published in peer-reviewed journals, and seeks to provide sound scientific advice on which industry and regulatory bodies will draw to respond more quickly and accurately to the public’s concerns.
In the context of its LRI programme, the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) is accepting grant applications to carry out research in the following areas:
- B4 - Indoor Exposure
- B5- Multiple Exposure
- B6- Chemicals sensitizers via novel markers
- ECO15- Rapid estimation of Trophic Magnification Factor (TMF)
- ECO16- Critical Body Burden (CBB) Database
- CC3 - Breast Cancer
Proposals
Requests for proposals and applying for a grant

Contacts & Further Information:
Dr Bruno Hubesch
Cefic LRI Manager
Email: Dr Bruno Hubesch