SCS Fall Meeting 2026

The two days event offers award and invited lectures, a Postdoc/young Professors session, 2x 9 topical parallel sessions, 2 poster sessions and a commercial exhibition.

Highlights of the first day, Aug 27, 2026, will be

• Helvetica session with two invited lectures
• Future leaders on stage: 3-4 SCS postdoc/young PI sessions
• A plenary session with lectures from SCS award winners and SCS honorary members
• The famous SCS poster sessions during the summer party (we expect to get more than 400 posters)
• Surprise to celebrate the 125^th anniversary of the SCS

The second day, Aug 28, 2026, will provide you the traditional Fall Meeting program with

• Two plenary sessions with lectures of SCS price winners 2026
• The second part of the poster sessions during lunch time
• Nine thematic parallel sessions with key note lectures and 15min PhD presentations in the morning and the afternoon
• Commercial exhibition with partners from industry
• Best oral and best poster presentation award ceremony

Award lectures

• Senior Industrial Science Award
  Dr. Kurt Püntener, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
• Werner Prize
  Prof. Nina Hartrampf, University of Zurich
• SCS Industrial Science Award:
  Dr. Samuele Cazzamalli, Philogen S.p.A
• Sandmeyer Prize: chemical process development 
  Team from Actelion/Idorsia
• Paracelsus Award 2026
  Prof. Detlef Günther, ETH Zürich

Topics of the parallel sessions (incl. 2 invited lectures and 2x 5x 15min contributed talks)

• Analytical Sciences
• Catalysis Science & Engineering
• Computational Chemistry
• Chemistry and the Environment, Chemical Ecology
• Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry
• Materials Chemistry
• Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology
• Organic Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry

Website: https://fm26.scg.ch