The Eberhard Gerstel Prize for outstanding work in Separation Sciences

Applications are invited for the Eberhard Gerstel Prize. The prize will be awarded to a scientist for an outstanding publication in the field of separation sciences in cooperation with the GERSTEL GmbH & Co. KG and the Working Group Separation Sciences of the Analytical Division of the German Chemical Society. The Prize will be donated by GERSTEL GmbH & Co. KG, a Germany based world-wide leader in automated sample preparation for GC/MS and LC/MS and is established to honor Eberhard Gerstel the founder of Gerstel GmbH.

The Eberhard Gerstel Prize will be awarded for the third time during the Analytica 2014 Conference in Munich, Germany on April, 2014. Applicants should be the first author or the corresponding author of a paper printed or accepted for publication in an international peer-reviewed journal in 2012 or 2013. Applicants may apply themselves or they can be nominated by another scientist. The prize is endowed with € 2500. An international committee will review the applications and select the awardee.

Applications or nominations must be submitted in electronic form as one single PDF file by February 10, 2014. Each application or nomination must include a copy of the published paper, a CV and letter of application stating why the candidate merits the award or a letter of recommendation, respectively. All applications must be sent to the following address:

Prof. Dr. Werner Engewald
University of Leipzig
Institute of Analytical Chemistry
Linnestr. 3
D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Mail: engewald@uni-leipzig.de

Source: Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)