EuChemS Industry Innovation Award

The first EuChemS Industry Innovation Award Awardees will be announced in 2025.

Yves Auberson

Yves P. Auberson obtained his Ph.D. in 1990 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. He joined Novartis BioMedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, in 1992, after a post-doctoral training in chemical biology with Peter Schultz at Affymax, in Palo Alto, USA. He is currently Executive Director in Global Discovery Chemistry at Novartis in Basel, where he leads the nuclear imaging agent discovery activities. Previously, he was Head of Chemistry for Neuroscience.

Yves P. Auberson played a leading role in the discovery and development of several drug candidates for epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, and narcolepsy, as well as of several clinical imaging agents for positron emission tomography. He is actively involved in the medicinal chemistry and chemical biology community, acting as Advisor to the Executive Committee of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (EFMC), and as Vice-President of the Swiss Chemical Society.

Annette Doherty

Gaetano Guerra

Gaetano Guerra is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Chemistry of University of Salerno. All his scientific activity was devoted to theoretical and experimental studies relative to polymeric materials. A large part of his research activity has been devoted to the study of structure-property relationships for semicrystalline polymers of industrial relevance. This research activity is documented by more than 370 scientific papers on international journals as well as by many industrial patents and chapters of books.

Gaetano Guerra was President of the Italian Association of Macromolecular Science and Technology (AIM) and President of Società Chimica Italiana (SCI), from January 2020 to December 2022. From November 2017 he is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and he was member of the Expert Group of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) for the Policy Report 39 on “Packaging plastics in the circular economy.

András Kotschy

András Kotschy is the Director of the Servier Research Institute of Medicinal Chemistry in Budapest, Hungary and he also oversees the Medicinal Chemistry activities globally within Servier Research. After completing his PhD degree in organic chemistry in 1995 and some postdoctoral stays (Humboldt postdoctoral fellow with P. Knochel in München, RSC postdoctoral fellow with D.M. Smith in St Andrews) he joined the staff of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, where he rose through the ranks to associate professor also completing his habilitation and obtaining a DSc degree.

In 2007 he moved to the newly established Servier Research Institute of Medicinal Chemistry as director of the Discovery Chemistry division and in 2015 became director of the institute. Since 2020 he is also director of Medicinal Chemistry activities within Servier Research. He is the co-author of more than 90 refereed publications and co-inventor of more than 25 patents. He is also the recipient of multiple scientific awards and fellowships.

Carla Seidel

Carla Seidel is Senior Vice President at BASF Group Research and leads the department Chemical, Material & Regulatory Science. She is a member of the Board of the German Chemical Society GDCh and of the Strategic Advisory Board Energy for the Helmholtz Society.

Carla has served in a variety of leadership roles in BASF from R&D to Strategy, Marketing & Sales and Business Build Up from upstream Intermediates to downstream Care Chemicals and applied chemistry Energy Technologies.She joined BASF as a lab team leader in Central Analytics, Process Research & Chemical Engineering, in 1996, after completing her PhD in analytical chemistry at the University of Hanover.