EYCN Podcast - Chemistry To Your Ears

In our new series, we interview the winners of the prestigious European Young Chemists' Award 2020 to discuss with them their research and also ask them for advice for other young chemists.
Today, we are talking about how we can enable novel reactions with the application of ultrasound, which could allow for more eco-friendly processes in the chemical industry.
For this, our Austrian delegate Miguel Steiner interviewed the Silver medal winner at the Early Career Research Level, Dr. Gregory Chatel.

In our new series, we interview the winners of the prestigious European Young Chemists' Award 2020 to discuss with them their research and also ask them for advice for other young chemists.
Today, we are talking about how important chemicals for industrial processes can be synthesized in a more sustainable way without relying on petrochemical resources.
For this, our Rumanian delegate Robert Țincu interviewed the Silver medal winner at the PhD Level, Dr. Emilia Paone.

Today, we are talking about doing your Postdoc and everything around it with Dr. Torsten John who is interviewed by our German delegate and Science Team Leader Sebastian Balser.
Dr. Torsten John, has finished his PhD in 2020 with summa cum laude at Leipzig University in Germany and is currently doing a Postdoc at MIT as a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow sponsored by the Humboldt Foundation.
Besides his research achievements, Dr. John has also been a board member of the German, European, and now International Younger Chemists Network. In this interview, he shares his insights into the planning, application, and financing of a Postdoc position in academia.

In this episode we are talking about the path towards completing a doctoral degree. Our guest, Dr. Daniel Friedrich, provides some key points along the road to obtain a PhD.

He highlights the importance of taking the time to make a detailed plan containing the incremental steps, which lead you to your goal. Moreover, he suggests building a professional network and develop transferable skills, which will help you in the future stages of your career. Furthermore, certain problems that can occur during a PhD are discussed to give some advice on how students can approach these challenges.

Dr. Daniel Friedrich is an expert in project and self-management within and beyond the science community. He gained experience as a founder, taught as a Teach First Fellow and is currently working as a data scientist at the largest German portal for teaching materials. Since 2019, he has been bringing his experience as a researcher, doctoral advisor, and university lecturer into ImpulsPlus.

In this episode, we focus on the importance of electrocatalysis in general and water splitting in particular. For that, Katarina Josifovska interviewed Prof. Dr. Kai Exner, an expert in this field.

Dr. Exner explains the fundamentals of electrocatalysis and why it is popular nowadays. Further, we discuss the oxygen evolution reaction, OER, as the limiting process in electrolyzers. Dr. Exner gave an overview of challenges in the OER, ranging from the atomic to the industrial scale.