Pb - Torsten John
Ag - Mattew G Cowan
Cu - Kelly Summers
S - Xuefeng Jiang
W - Nir London
Ca - Thibault Cheisson
I - Rachel Hevey
Ts – Nathan Brewer
Og - Sofiya Aydinyan
All Awardees in Order of Presentation
Co-sponsored by the International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN)
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Contact Person: Dr. Christine Dunne, [email protected]
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of IUPAC and the International Year of the Periodic Table, IUPAC and IYCN announce the creation of a Periodic Table of Younger Chemists. Beginning in July 2018 and ending in July 2019 at the World Chemistry Congress and IUPAC General Assembly, we have unveiled and honored a diverse group of 118 outstanding younger chemists from around the world who in embody the mission and core values of IUPAC. The resulting periodic table highlights the diversity of careers, creativity, and dedication of the young chemists leading us into the next century. Elements of the Periodic Table of Younger Chemists have been revealed over time in order of scientific discovery (see Wikipedia).
Nominees must be 40 years of age or younger and meet the following criteria:
One of the following:
- Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in chemistry or a related field
- Holds an undergraduate or graduate degree in chemistry or in a related field
- Currently working in the field of chemistry or a related field
AND
Actively working in one or more of the following areas:
- Scientific topics relevant to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (link)
- Increasing the public appreciation and understanding of chemistry
- Fostering diversity in the chemical enterprise
- Improving chemistry and science education for students
- Advancing interdisciplinary and international collaboration in chemistry research
All nominations are to be submitted via the on-line form. Nominators may be organizations or individuals. Self-nominations are accepted. Nominees not selected during a particular round will be carried over to the next group of elements. For more information, please email Christine Dunne at [email protected].
Elements will be revealed throughout the period from July 2018 to July 2019 with 8 to 10 elements revealed per month. The deadline nominations for elements being revealed in July 2018 is May 1, 2018. Nominations for later elements may be submitted any time prior to the deadline. Early submission is encouraged. See the table below for subsequent deadlines.
Month Revealed | Deadline for Nominations | Elements to be Announced * | |
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July 2018 | June 11, 2018 | Copper Lead Gold Silver | Iron Carbon Tin Sulfur |
August 2018 | July 1, 2018 | Mercury Zinc Arsenic Antimony | Phosphorus Cobalt Platinum Nickel |
September 2018 | August 1, 2018 | Bismuth Magnesium Hydrogen Oxygen | Nitrogen Barium Chlorine Manganese |
October 2018 | September 1, 2018 | Molybdenum Tungsten Tellurium Strontium | Zirconium Uranium Titanium Yttrium |
November 2018 | October 1, 2018 | Chromium Beryllium Vanadium Niobium | Tantalum Palladium Cerium Osmium |
December 2018 | November 1, 2018 | Iridium Rhodium Potassium Sodium | Calcium Boron Fluorine Iodine |
January 2019 | December 1, 2018 | Lithium Cadmium Selenium Silicon Aluminium | Bromine Thorium Lanthanum Erbium Terbium |
February 2019 | January 1, 2019 | Ruthenium Caesium Rubidium Thallium Indium | Helium Gallium Ytterbium Holmium Thulium |
March 2019 | February 1, 2019 | Scandium Samarium Gadolinium Praseodymium Neodymium | Germanium Dysprosium Argon Europium Krypton |
April 2019 | March 1, 2019 | Neon Xenon Polonium Radium Radon | Actinium Lutetium Rhenium Protactinium Hafnium |
May 2019 | April 1, 2019 | Technetium Francium Astatine Neptunium Plutonium | Promethium Curium Americium Berkelium Californium |
June 2019 | May 1, 2019 | Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Lawrencium Nobelium | Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Meitnerium |
July 2019 | May 15, 2019 | Hassium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium | Flerovium Livermorium Oganesson Tennessine Moscovium |
Element | Name | Title | Affiliation | Country |
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Copper | Kelly L. Summers | Ph.D. Candidate | University of Saskatchewan | Canada |
Lead | Torsten John | Ph.D. Candidate | Leipzig University | Germany |
Gold | Julian G. West | Postdoctoral Fellow | California Institute of Technology | United States |
Silver | Matthew G. Cowan | Lecturer and Researcher | University of Canterbury | New Zealand |
Iron | Elizabeth New | Associate Professor | University of Sydney | Australia |
Carbon | Jose Miguel González- Domínguez | Research Chemist | Spanish National Research Council | Carbon |
Tin | Emmanuel Chukwudalu Ohaekenyem | Lecturer | Nnamdi Azikiwe University | Nigeria |
Sulfur | Xuefeng Jiang | Professor | East China Normal University | China |
Mercury | Zhuang Liu | Professor | Soochow University | China |
Zinc | Ernest Awoonor-Williams | Graduate Student | Memorial University | Canada |
Arsenic | Jorge Alegre-Cebollada | Professor | Complutense University of Madrid | Spain |
Antimony | Maria Spasova | Associate Professor | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Bulgaria |
Phosphorus | Hwan-Ching Tai | Professor | National Taiwan University | China/Taipei |
Cobalt | Sadhna Mathura | Lecturer and Academic Coordinator | University of the Witwatersrand | South Africa |
Platinum | Andrea Straková Fedorková | Researcher | Pavol Jozef Safarik University | Slovakia |
Nickel | Lori Ferrins | Research Assistant Professor | Northeastern University | United States |
Bismuth | Sukdev Bag | Ph.D. Candidate | Indian Institute of Technology | India |
Magnesium | Marielle Yasmine Agbahoungbata | Vice-Director | MathFinEco University | Benin |
Hydrogen | Paul D Topham | Professor | Aston University | United Kingdom |
Oxygen | Shannon Esswein | MD-Ph.D. Student | UCLA-Caltech | United States |
Nitrogen | Xiaoguang Lei | Professor | Peking University | China |
Barium | Jose Vicente Climent | National Market Access Liaison Manager | Johnson & Johnson | Spain |
Chlorine | Shaimaa Goher | Graduate Student | Benha University | Egypt |
Manganese | Teera Chantarojsiri | Lecturer | Mahidol University | Thailand |
Molybdenum | Mirabbos Hojamberdiev | Senior Researcher | Uzbekistan-Japan Innovation Center of Youth | Uzbekistan |
Tungsten | Nir London | Senior Scientist, Assistant Professor | The Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel |
Tellurium | Edmond Sanganyado | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Shantou University | Zimbabwe |
Strontium | Markita Landry | Assistant Professor | University of California Berkeley | United States |
Zirconium | Claudia Bonfio | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Italy |
Uranium | Shuao Wang | Professor | Soochow University | China |
Titanium | Sammy Verbruggen | Lecturer and Senior Researcher | University of Antwerp | Belgium |
Yttrium | Gabriel dos Passos Gomes | PhD Candidate | Florida State University | Brazil |
Chromium | Elisa Orth | Associate Professor | Federal University of Paraná | Brazil |
Beryllium | Gabriela Desireé Tormet-González | Ph.D. Candidate | University of Campinas (Brazil) | Venezuela |
Vanadium | Guihua Yu | Professor | The University of Texas at Austin | United States |
Niobium | Naoaki Yabuuchi | Professor | Yokohama National University | Japan |
Tantalum | James M. Gardner | Associate Professor | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
Palladium | Ilja Voets | Professor | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
Cerium | Martine Abboud | Junior Research Fellow | University of Oxford (UK) | Lebanon |
Osmium | Juris Meija | Research Officer | National Research Council of Canada | Canada |
Iridium | Oliver Jones | Associate Professor | RMIT University | United Kingdom |
Rhodium | Rebekah Duffin | Ph.D. Candidate | Monash University | Australia |
Potassium | Aubrey Paris | NSF Graduate Fellow | Princeton University | United States |
Sodium | Saima Shabbir | Associate Professor | Institute of Space Technology | Pakistan |
Calcium | Thibault Cheisson | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Pennsylvania | France |
Boron | Dmitriy Berillo | Visiting Researcher | University of Brighton | Kazakhstan |
Fluorine | Fun Man Fung | Assistant Director (Education) & Chemistry Instructor | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
Iodine | Rachel Hevey | Research Associate | University of Basel | Switzerland |
Lithium | Michael Terzidis | Research Scientist | Pharmaten S.A. | Greece |
Cadmium | Carina Crucho | Junior Researcher | Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal | Portugal |
Selenium | Richard Payne | Professor of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology | The University of Sydney | Australia |
Silicon | Mita Dasog | Assistant Professor | Dalhousie University | Canada |
Aluminum | Ramia Albakain | Associate Professor of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry | The University of Jordan | Jordan |
Bromine | Márcia Mesko | Associate Professor | Universidade Federal de Pelotas | Brazil |
Thorium | Andrey Vorotyntsev | Assistant Professor | Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. | Russia |
Lanthanum | Erin Leitao | Senior Lecturer | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
Erbium | Samantha Yruegas | Ph.D. Candidate | Baylor University | United States |
Terbium | Nur Fajrini Matjalina | Director | Smart Coating Technologies (B) Sdn Bhd | Brunei |
Ruthenium | Alexander Majouga | Professor, Doctor of Science | Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia | Russia |
Caesium | Natalie LaFranzo | Director of Scientific Projects and Market Development | DuPont Electronics & Imaging | United States |
Rubidium | João Borges | Junior Research Fellow | Portuguese Chemical Society | Portugal |
Thallium | Sotiris Evgenidis | Post-Doctoral Fellow | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece |
Indium | Hadi Fares | Post-Doctoral Fellow | NASA Postdoctoral Program/ Pennsylvania State University | Lebanon |
Helium | Erin McConnell | Post-Doctoral Fellow | McMaster University | Canada |
Gallium | Gaston Richelle | Pepscan Therapeutics | Netherlands | |
Ytterbium | Magaret Sivapragasam | Post-Doctoral Research Scientist | Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS | Malaysia |
Holmium | Patrick Scilabra | Ph.D. Candidate | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Italy |
Thulium | David Mills | Senior Lecturer | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
Scandium | Chenjie Zeng | NatureNet Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Pennsylvania | China |
Samarium | Felicia Lim | Researcher & NMR Specialist | Monash University | Malaysia |
Gadolinium | Felix Rizzuto | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | McGill University | Australia |
Praesodymium | Anna Regoutz | Imperial College Research Fellow | Imperial College London | Austria |
Neodymium | Marian Asantewah Nkansah | Senior Lecturer | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | Ghana |
Germanium | Jesus Esteban Serrano | Research Fellow | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion | Spain |
Dysprosium | Raymond Borg | Ph.D. Student | University of California Santa Barbara | United States |
Argon | Cynthia Nkolika Ibeto | Senior Lecturer | University of Nigeria Nsukka | Nigeria |
Europium | Ľubomír Švorc | Associate Professor | Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava | Slovakia |
Krypton | Philippe Wilson | Senior Lecturer VC2020 in Biological Chemistry & Cheminformatics | De Montfort University | United Kingdom |
Neon | Derfogail Delcassian | Marie Curie Fellow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Ireland |
Xenon | Kana Yamada | Assistant Professor | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
Polonium | Conrad Goodwin | J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow | Los Alamos National Laboratory | United Kingdom |
Radium | Anna Pasternak | Associate Professor | Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences | Poland |
Radon | Tejas K. Shah | Discovery Research Scientist | Corteva Agriscience | United States |
Actinium | Maria Fernanda Cardinal | Associate Researcher | CONICET, Instituto de Nanosistemas, Universidad Nacional de San Martin | Argentina |
Lutetium | Chengliang Xiao | Professor | Zhejiang University | China |
Rhenium | Marleen Kamperman | Full Professor | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
Protactinium | Nam Joong Jeon | Senior Researcher | Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology | South Korea |
Hafnium | Henry Moseley | Lecturer in Physics | Ernest Rutherford’s Laboratory at the University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
Technetium | Siba Moussa | PhD Candidate | McGill University | Syria |
Francium | Thomas Hermans | Assistant Professor | Université de Strasbourg | France |
Astatine | Johanna Irrgeher | Senior Scientist | Montanuniversität Leoben | Austria |
Neptunium | Tejas Joshi | German Chancellor Fellow | Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at Kiel University, Germany | India |
Plutonium | Yalinu Poya | Ph.D Candidate | University of Glasgow | Papua New Guinea |
Promethium | Quan Yuan | Professor | Hunan University | China |
Curium | Athina Anastasaki | Assistant Professor | ETH Zurich | Greece |
Americium | Michael Tarselli | Scientific Director | SLAS | United States |
Berkelium | Philipp Gotico | PhD candidate | French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) | Philippines |
Californium | Gift Mehlana | Lecturer and Researcher | Midlands State University | Zimbabwe |
Einsteinium | Clarice Phelps | Researcher and Project Manager | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | United States |
Fermium | Xu Hou | Professor | Xiamen University | China |
Mendelevium | Anna Romanchuk | Senior Scientist | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia |
Lawrencium | Jessica Pandohee | Research Fellow | Edith Cowan University | Mauritius |
Nobelium | Lydia Sosa Vargas | CNRS Researcher | Sorbonne University | France |
Rutherfordium | Stephanie Santos-Diaz | Ph.D Candidate | Purdue University | Puerto Rico |
Dubnium | Jovana Milic | Scientist | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
Seborgium | Johan Rene Gonzalez Moya | Postdoctoral Associate | Florida International University | Cuba |
Bohrium | Yvonne Choo | Ph.D Graduate | Newcastle University | Malaysia |
Meitnerium | Victor Sabanza | Undergraduate student | University of La Rioja | Spain |
Hassium | Nimrat Obhi | Ph.D Candidate | University of Toronto | Canada |
Darmstadtium | Daniel Florin Sava | 2D IP Coordinator | The University of Manchester's technology Transfer Office - UMIP | Romania |
Roentgenium | Peter Wich | Senior Lecturer | University of New South Wales Sydnes | Australia |
Copernicium | Menno de Waal | Teacher Vocational Education and Advisor | ROC van Amsterdam | Netherlands |
Nihonium | Dr. Nozomi Sato | Adjunct Researcher | Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, RIKEN | Japan |
Flerovium | Dr. Leonid V. Skripnikov | Senior Researcher | "Kurchatov Institute" | Russia |
Livermorium | Dr. Jacklyn M. Gates | Heavy Element Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group Leader | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | United States |
Oganesson | Dr. Sofiya Aydinyan | Researcher | A.B. Nalbandyan Institute of Chemical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia | Armenia |
Tennessine | Dr. Nathan T. Brewer | Post-Doctoral Researcher | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Unites States |
Moscovium | Dr. Galina Knyazheva | Senior Researcher | Joint Institute for Nuclear Research | Russia |