DoSChem Newsletter

Dear DoSChem students, faculty, friends, and alumni,

we would like to share with you the latest DoSChem highlights, news and updates.

1. New at DoSchem

We are pleased to welcome new DoSChem students who joined our school either via our international call in March 2022 (16 students) or who were admitted to DoSChem in October (16 students).

We initiated our first DoSChem onboarding event (13.10.22) for all new doctoral students and also participated at the UniVie-wide Welcome Days (5.-7.10.22). We enjoyed the dialogue with our new school members and received new impulses. We are looking forward to our collaboration!

Next DoSChem admittance round: 1^st March 2023

If you have new students please let us know, so we can approach them with our admittance paperwork.

 2. New DoSChem Student Representatives

This year’s election of DoSChem Student Representatives for the period of 11.2022-10.2023 took place in November (2.-7.11.22) via our Moodle platform. These are our new Student Representatives:

• Martin Schaier (panel B, Analytics, G. Köllensperger group)
• Philip Verdross (panel A, Materials, R. Woodward group)

deputy:

• Tadija Kekic (panel B, Inorganics, M. Somoza group)

You can contact the student representatives via their personal or this service email address: students.dos.chem@univie.ac.at

We would like to sincerely thank Leopold Dürrauer, Bianca de Jonckheere, Stefanie Rubenzucker and Patrick Guggenberger for their ground-breaking services as student representatives and wish them a lot of success for the final phase of their PhD!

Leopold Dürrauer, Stefanie Rubenzucker, Bianca de Jonckheere  and Patrick Guggenberger (at Student Symposium 2021).

(© by Martin Schaier, modified by DoSChem)

3.International Exchange Awardees

Congratulations to the awardees of the last two submissions (01.07.2022 and 01.10.2022) for the DoSChem International Exchange program:

• Tamara Dinhof – the project “New Substrates to study C-P lyase” (Department of Organic Chemistry, group Roman Lichtenecker; co-supervised by Katharina Pallitsch) will be studied at the Queen´s University, Canada (group David Zechel) and at the Aarhus University, Denmark (group Ditlev Brodersen)

• Katharina Hohenwallner – “Exploiting the combination of liquid chromatography and ultraviolet photodissociation mass spectrometry for (glyco)lipid analysis”. This part of Katharina’s PhD work (Department of Analytical Chemistry, group Evelyn Rampler) will be carried out at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology in the group of Reid Gavin.

The next application deadline for the International Exchange and New Ideas program is: 16.01.2023 (Monday).

4. Past DoSChem courses and events

• The first DoSChem excursion was organized by the former Student Representative Team to Seibersdorf Laboratories in October. Read more here.
• Together with Dr. Marco Masia from the Technology Transfer Office the first Entrepreneurship and Innovation workshop was completed.
• We also offered a Scientific writing workshop by Katherine Tiede.

Both, the excursion and the workshops, were very well received and highly recommended by the students. The writing workshop just ended and we plan to organize similar events for the next semester.

5. DoSChem International Call and Recruitment

In March 2023 we will launch our third DoSChem call for doctoral students. Last year the faculty jointly advertised internationally 16 praedoc positions. More details for the 2023 call will follow in January.

6. DoSChem International Student Symposium

DoSChem students successfully organized the second International DoSChem Student Symposium for about 200 participants. It took place on 19.-20.09.22 at the Campus "Altes AKH" of the University of Vienna.

A huge "thank you" to the organizers of this event, including the former student representatives Leopold Dürrauer, Bianca de Jonckheere, Patrick Guggenberger and Alexander Petritsch, Iuliana Besleaga, Lukas Sallfeldner, Martina Crosta, Meira Mankinen and Mirela Encheva. This would not have been possible without the great help of our Master students on-site. Thank you!

Please find all Symposiums highlights summarized here.

3^rd International DoSChem Student Symposium 2023: July 6-7 (Thu-Fri)

We are looking for student teams, who would like to be engaged in organization of our next Symposium.

7. Upcoming events

We are excited to inform you about our third retreat rounds organized by each focus area independently!

• Focus Area of Research A: March 20-22 in Zeillern (Schloß Hotel Zeillern), Lower Austria

Organizers: Ellen Backus with Chiara Luna Onorati and Mirela Encheva

• Focus Area of Research B: April 19-21 in Fürstenfeld (Styria); JUFA
  

Organizers: Samuel Meier-Menches & Jürgen Zanghellini

• Focus Area of Research C: March 22-24; in Fürstenfeld (Styria); JUFA
  

Organizers: Davide Bonifazi & Thomas Mindt with Xabier Guarrochena and Julia Kronberger

8. The Moritz Schlick early-career programme: public hearings at the faculty

The Moritz Schlick early-career programme (MSECP) at the University of Vienna supports early stage postdocs with high potential for an academic career. The faculty of Chemistry offers 3 such positions: 

• Physical Chemistry, host Ellen Backus (hearing: 15.12.22, SR3, 1-3 p.m.)
  
• Theoretical Chemistry, host Leticia González (hearing:10.01.23, Währinger Str. 17, institute's seminar room, 1-4 p.m.)
  
• Protein Chemistry, host Christian Becker (hearing: 5.01.23, HS3, 12-5.30 p.m.)
  

The DoSChem organizes public hearings for the positions and interviews of invited candidates.

9. New Things at DoSChem

Within this column we would like to draw your attention to our ongoing improvements and updates:

• Together with UniVie cooperate communication we have designed DoSChem certificates and confirmation of participation e.g. in our workshops. Soon we will issue those to all graduates confirming their DoSChem membership and their achievements.
• The SSC info on the doctoral program is now updated in English; In addition you find an overview of the doctoral program process and responsibilities mapped at our “DoSChem student corner”
• You find our onboarding event presentation with helpful insights for new and advanced students here
  
• If you successfully defended your PhD thesis, we would be happy to stay in contact with you! For that, please visit our Alumni section.
• We regularly update our “calls, workshops and important dates” section for your convenience with information about internal and external calls, awards and workshops.
• Also new on our website is Prizes and Awards: Please send us your achievements and prizes you receive! We are currently building a section, where you can read about students' experiences on their International Exchange, for instance! More stories like this will be coming soon, but you can also contact us if you have an important publication of your work that you would like to share about.
  

All important and relevant dates at a glance you find on our event calendar on the landing page of our website

If you have any comments, suggestions, questions or want to help with the

organization please do not hesitate to contact Elena and Mirjam at

DoSChem Dos.Chem@univie.ac.at